User:Skalman/Paper-cuts 2012-09

The main reason I love Firefox is Mozilla's philosphy and track record. Overall, I like the Firefox feel better than both Opera and Chrome, so all the better. And I wish I had the Australis theme *now*!!

To Opera's and Chrome's advantage, they seem a bit more polished than Firefox. A few small examples:

• Chrome has seemless tab dragging - the current Aurora version (maybe only on Linux?) is crap in comparison
• When the web console is visible in the bottom of the window, hovering a link shows the address *over* the web console
• I have disabled the menu bar, only have the "Aurora" button on the top left.
  • How do I open it using only keyboard? Pressing "alt" does nothing (on Linux?). I just bring back the old menu by pressing e.g. alt+f for "File".
  • When open, how do I navigate it using only keyboard? Pressing arrow keys only partly works.
• In the web console:
  • How do I navigate using only the keyboard?
  • Clicking an URL opens the request/response in a new window. This window *cannot* be focused. How do I close it using only keyboard? If I click ten links, why do I have to close each window manually? Perhaps it would be useful to show it in the same window somewhere, e.g. like Chrome does.
  • Clicking an object opens it in a new window. That display is bad and it requires double-clicking.
• Opening both the developer toolbar and web console renders *two* command lines, which look quite different. They should be better integrated. Also, I can't navigate from one to the other using only the keyboard (which is the point of a command line). Can't they be combined (it seems like the syntax of the web dev command line is *almost* never valid JS, only for one word commands)?
• Results from the dev toolbar command line display badly. () E.g. entering "help" can hide the title of the results and even hide the command line itself! Now I've got to press escape or something else to see the command line again.
• I can open the web dev toolbar with shift+f2. Why can't I close it with the same command? And why can't I close it by entering "exit"?

I like that keyboard navigation *generally* is first-class in Firefox.

Other small bugs/feature suggestions:

• Check spelling: I write in English, Swedish, French and Finnish.
  • The French dictionary actually has *4* included - I only want one
  • There are no Swedish or Finnish dictionaries (I suggest using Wiktionary unless anything better is available; if you could point me to instructions on creating dictionaries for Firefox, please email me at fondiller at gmail)
  • I don't want to change the dictionary used every time I switch languages. Either you've got to detect the language and switch accordingly automatically (after 5-10 words), or I'd like to be able to select several dictionaries where *all* words are accepted (also good writing in multiple languages at once which I often do). Unreported misspellings are much better than misreported correct spellings (in another language).
• Go to some page which uses <meta charset=utf-8>. Right-click->View Page Info now shows an empty meta tag: neither name nor content.
• Tab groups
  • How do I close a tab in a tab group with the keyboard? (I suggest backspace or delete; of course reversible with ctrl+z)
  • How do I rename a group using only keyboard? How do I access a pinned tab in a tab group? How do I close a tab group? (I suggest being able to tab through (with the tab key) tabs, pinned tabs, rename text field and close button; all those actions reversible with ctrl+z)
• When a raw XML file is shown in Firefox, some coloring and structure is given even if the XML is minified. The same should happen when a raw JSON file is shown. It's available in the extension JSONView, but it should be native.

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Also, I'd love to have some non-distracting way of saying "Thank you! I truly appreciate the work by everybody involved in solving this bug/implementing this feature". What's the best way to thank you guys for specific things? :-)