Talk:Firefox:1.5 Preferences Reorg

Comment by Victor Bogado

There is no easy way of finding out which session of the preferences you are at the moment, I would suggest some kind of highlight in the corresponding icon.

Speed

What about having a Speed preference in Options? If the default settings can't be optimized for everybody on install, have another tab with a slider or radio buttons for 'My Computer Speed' and 'My Internet Connection Speed'. Sliders would make these useful settings easy to change w/o the need to muck about in about:config.

Throttle Preference

I would like to see a preference reflecting a new ability (that needs to be written into Firefox) to throttle all downloads. When downloading a large file or several files at my maximum bandwidth, I cannot browse the web effectively. There should be an option to cap maximum download at 80% of capacity, for example, allowing the other 20% to be used for normal browsing. This could be done with a slider as well.

that suggestion should rather go here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Label General

it's confusing to label two very different elements General (see below). i suggest Browsing as new label for the first tab in the Advanced category. --Pythagoras1 01:37, 25 May 2005 (PDT)

Consistancy

Maybe i'm being anal, but i don't much like the fact that the 'privacy' section lists the subgroups in a vertical list box, whereas the 'advanced' section uses tabs to show subgroups. I much prefer the tabs, but i definately think the two should be consistant either way --porl.

Extensions and Themes

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but i have always found the extensions and themes windows to be a little bit of a waste, so maybe add a new section under options called 'extensions and themes' or something similar (maybe registered plugins should be another group here, eg flash, java etc) and place them in here. The default behaviour of opening a new (albeit small) 'extensions' window, then from there opening a new window to get new extensions really detracts from the niceness of tabbed browsing (i know that the tabbrowser extension gets around this but that is beside the point). --porl.

New Windows, Editing/Buffering, Search

Not sure if this is the right place for suggestions either (while noticing however that a suitably named article is presently not explicitly linked), but the following features would make any browser more useful to me:

1. Given a browser window opened with some particular page, options (keystrokes) to open a new browser window either with this same page, or with the home page. (Browsers known to me provide only one keystroke, "Ctrl-n", for only one action or the other, but seem to lack an alternative keystroke to affect the alternative action.)
2. Style choices for editing fields, and for copying text in general. (My preference, for instance, is for X-like copying and pasting, i.e. highlighted text being bufferend directly, without additional keystrokes such as "Ctrl-c", pasting by middle-mouse click, and for UNIX/emacs-like editor commands. Browsers running on a Windows-OS don't seem to conform to these preferences; conversely, conflicts with other preferences may arise with browsers running on some other OS.)
3. Optimized access to search within the given page, i.e. the search text field being visible permanently (without extraneous keystrokes such as "/"), ideally (as an option) in the upper right corner.

Thank you very much, SaugAn 03:22, 18 July 2006 (PDT)