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<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold">Looking for this year's Summer of Code information? [[SummerOfCode|Step right this way.]]</span>
Add your ideas here for Mozilla Projects that students could take on to participate in the Google [http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Summer of Code 2006]
Add your ideas here for Mozilla Projects that students could take on to participate in the Google [http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Summer of Code 2006]


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* Ben Goodger
* Ben Goodger
* Benjamin Smedberg
* Chris Hofmann (admin)
* Chris Hofmann (admin)
* Darin Fisher
* David Bienvenu
* David Bienvenu
* David Liebreich
* David Liebreich
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* Mike Pinkerton
* Mike Pinkerton
* Mark Mentovai
* Mark Mentovai
* Robert O'Callahan
* Scott MacGregor
* Scott MacGregor
* Stuart Parmenter
* Stuart Parmenter
* Vladimir Vukicevic
* Vladimir Vukicevic
* Zbigniew Braniecki


If you are interested in being a mentor, the requirements and responsibilities are here: http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html
If you are interested in being a mentor, the requirements and responsibilities are here: http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html
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http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html
http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html


If your a student writing a proposal, there is  
If you are a student writing a proposal, there is  
a good list of guidlines written up at [http://drupal.org/node/59963] that will help as the mentors as they review, evaluate , and decide on your Mozilla Project proposal.  
a good list of guidelines written up at [http://drupal.org/node/59963] that will help as the mentors as they review, evaluate , and decide on your Mozilla Project proposal.  
   
   
Thanks
Thanks
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The following projects have been proposed by Mozilla module owners and project participants.
The following projects have been proposed by Mozilla module owners and project participants.  Students might also look at interesting individual bugs in the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org] database, and write proposals that would help to diagnose or fix specific issues described in individual or collections of bugs.




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| valign="top" |Auto verify MD5/SHA1 hashes & PGP signatures
| valign="top" |Auto verify MD5/SHA1 hashes & PGP signatures
| valign="top" |Automatically verifying MD5/SHA1 hashes, and optionally PGP signatures, of downloads. When you have downloaded a file, the download manager should try to download filename.md5, filename.sha, filename.asc and run the associated tool on the downloaded file to verify. Mark the entry as red or something in the download manager, and change the Open link to Info link, if the file did not verify. The Info link would open a page explaining what is wrong. It could perhaps have a open or preferably just delete file button. More difficult case would be to get the md5/sha1 signature if it is just embedded on the page where the download link is, but you could try some heuristics...
| valign="top" |Automatically verifying MD5/SHA1 hashes, and optionally PGP signatures, of downloads. When you have downloaded a file, the download manager should try to download filename.md5, filename.sha, filename.asc and run the associated tool on the downloaded file to verify. Mark the entry as red or something in the download manager, and change the Open link to Info link, if the file did not verify. The Info link would open a page explaining what is wrong. It could perhaps have a open or preferably just delete file button. More difficult case would be to get the md5/sha1 signature if it is just embedded on the page where the download link is, but you could try some heuristics... (see also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292481 bug 292481])
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| valign="top" |Work on cairo to speed up image fallback backend.  Requires strong knowledge of image processing, as well as MMX/SSE/etc; the bulk of the work will be writing fast inner-loop compositing operations for in-memory image surfaces.
| valign="top" |Work on cairo to speed up image fallback backend.  Requires strong knowledge of image processing, as well as MMX/SSE/etc; the bulk of the work will be writing fast inner-loop compositing operations for in-memory image surfaces.
| valign="top" |[[User:VladVukicevic|VladVukicevic]]
| valign="top" |[[User:VladVukicevic|VladVukicevic]]
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| valign="top" |Multithreaded Plugin Loader
| valign="top" |Multithreaded Plugin Loader in Firefox and other browsers. This would avoid the browser from hanging for several seconds when loading a Java plugin for example.
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| valign="top" |Firefox tracking online/offline status and proxy settings
| valign="top" |Implement nsINetworkLinkService and nsISystemProxySettings on Windows so Firefox will go online/offline automatically when Windows does and track Windows' proxy settings (maybe too easy?)
| valign="top" |[[User:Roc|Roc]]
| valign="top" |02:38, 20 April 2006 (PDT)
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| valign="top" |Security Improvements
| valign="top" |Security Improvements
| valign="top" |Fix some of the bugs and enhancement requests with "sg:want" in the status whiteboard.  These are things that would improve security, but aren't security holes.
| valign="top" |Fix some of the bugs and enhancement requests with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=sg%3Awant&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=sg%3Awant&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=sg%3Awant&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=sg%3Awant&remaction=&query_format=advanced&order=bugs.status_whiteboard,bugs.bug_id%20desc&query_based_on= "sg:want" in the status whiteboard].  These are things that would improve security, but aren't security holes.
| valign="top" |[[User:Jesse|Jesse Ruderman]]
| valign="top" |[[User:Jesse|Jesse Ruderman]]
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| valign="top" |Create a scriptable jar writer or zip writer
| valign="top" |Create a scriptable jar writer or zip writer
| valign="top" |Implement a scriptable nsIZipWriter component and interface.  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289948 bug 289948] is a bug requesting this feature, and [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/modules/libjar/ libjar] is the directory where the zip reader resides.
| valign="top" |Implement a scriptable nsIZipWriter component and interface.  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289948 bug 289948] is a bug requesting this feature, and [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/modules/libjar/ libjar] is the directory where the zip reader resides.
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:richwklein|richwklein]]  
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:richwklein|richwklein]]<br>Mentor: [[MDC:User:Benjamin Smedberg|bsmedberg]]
| valign="top" |Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)
| valign="top" |Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)
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| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:richwklein|richwklein]]  
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:richwklein|richwklein]]  
| valign="top" |Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)
| valign="top" |Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)
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| valign="top" |Enhance selection APIs
| valign="top" |Enhance the selection APIs so that they can provide the features needed for both existing find-in-page use (without modifying the DOM) and for highlighting of all occurrences.  Start by reorganizing the selection code based on what requirements it really needs to meet (which include handling of text selection in the page and in form controls, IME, spellcheck, and other things) plus the ability to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256773 highlight multiple ranges].  (And maybe do some [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298715 other cleanup] as part of that learning process.)  Then extend CSS and DOM APIs to provide a clean API for what find-in-page needs, and fix find-in-page to use those APIs.
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Dbaron|David Baron]]
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| valign="top" |Improve link activation APIs
| valign="top" |[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335963 Improve link activation APIs] to consolidate link activation code, fix bugs caused by inconsistencies and allow single-window and tabbed-only browsing and open-in-new-window / open-in-new-tab context menu options that really work, even for javascript: URLs and onclick handlers.  And then get at least a significant start on the front-end changes needed to use those APIs.  See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335963 bug] for more details.
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Dbaron|David Baron]]
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| valign="top" |DOM Inspector UI Overhaul
| valign="top" |Firebug is great for web developers, but many XUL developers use DOM Inspector for debugging XUL itself. The DOM Inspector could use a firebug-like upgrade.
| valign="top" |[[User:Ben|Ben]] 16:23, 4 May 2006 (PDT)
| valign="top" |submitted 16:23, 4 May 2006 (PDT)
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| valign="top" |[[User:Ben|Ben]] [[User:Beltzner|Beltzner]] for UI
| valign="top" |[[User:Ben|Ben]] [[User:Beltzner|Beltzner]] for UI
| valign="top" |Submitted 18:07, 18 April 2006 (PDT)   
| valign="top" |Submitted 18:07, 18 April 2006 (PDT)   
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| valign="top" |Support for Webarchive (mht)
| valign="top" |Support for loading and saving of .mht files (can see [http://maf.mozdev.org/ maf] as well as its XPCOM JS components [http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/maf/src/components/nsMafMhtHandler.js?rev=1.21&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup handler], [http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/maf/src/components/nsMafMhtEncoder.js?rev=1.16&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup encoder] and [http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/maf/src/components/nsMafMhtDecoder.js?rev=1.16&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup decoder])
| valign="top" |[[User:Mabank|Mabank]]
| valign="top" |Submitted 13:37, 14 May 2006 (PDT) 
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| valign="top" |styled text support for Mac clipboard
| valign="top" |styled text support for Mac clipboard
| valign="top" | Implement copy/paste of styled text to the system clipboard on the Mac; [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79864 bug 79864]
| valign="top" |Implement copy/paste of styled text to the system clipboard on the Mac; {{bug|79864}}
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
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| valign="top" |Mac keybinding and text-editing improvements
| valign="top" |Mac keybinding and text-editing improvements
| valign="top" | Audit and fix any missing OS-standard text field keybindings and text-editing behaviors on the Mac ([http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html good summary of default bindings here]);  
| valign="top" |Audit and fix any missing OS-standard text field keybindings and text-editing behaviors on the Mac ([http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html good summary of default bindings here]); {{Bug|330968}}
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330968 bug 330968]
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
| valign="top" |13:28, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
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| valign="top" |Improve/expand AppleScript support
| valign="top" |Improve/expand AppleScript support
| valign="top" |Mozilla-based Mac products have very limited AppleScript support, especially in comparison ton Safari, Eudora, and other long-standing Mac applications; Camino bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178917 178917], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160106 160106], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314061 314061], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253486 253486], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156078 156078] (there may be others in Core, Firefox, Thunderbird, or MAS products)   
| valign="top" |Mozilla-based Mac products have very limited AppleScript support, especially in comparison to Safari, Eudora, and other long-standing Mac applications; Camino {{bug|178917}}, {{bug|160106}}, {{bug|314061}}, {{bug|253486}}, {{bug|156078}} (there may be others in Core, Firefox, Thunderbird, or MAS products)   
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
| valign="top" |Reporter: [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]
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| valign="top" |Camino Single-Window Mode.
| valign="top" |Camino Single-Window Mode.
| valign="top" |Now that the APIs for "single window mode" are available to embedding apps, we need to add this capability to Camino.  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274143 Bug  274143]
| valign="top" |Now that the APIs for "single window mode" are available to embedding apps, we need to add this capability to Camino; {{bug|274143}}
| valign="top" | [[User:pinkerton|Mike Pinkerton]], Mark Mentovai  
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| valign="top" |Camino Keychain Rewrite.
| valign="top" |Camino Keychain Rewrite.
| valign="top" |Camino uses the old API for Keychain, we need to update to the new API in order to be compatible with Safari keychain entries. The new implementation needs to be backwards compatible with old keychain entries (maybe a one-time import?) and allow multiple passwords per site (one of our Top-5 feature requests). Bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172842 172842], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177941 177941], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179672 179672], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178607 178607], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187720 187720], (maybe [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202337 202337]).
| valign="top" |Camino uses the old API for Keychain, we need to update to the new API in order to be compatible with Safari keychain entries. The new implementation needs to be backwards compatible with old keychain entries (maybe a one-time import?) and allow multiple passwords per site (one of our Top-5 feature requests). Bugs: {{bug|172842}}, {{bug|177941}}, {{bug|179672}}, {{bug|178607}}, {{bug|187720}}, (maybe {{bug|202337}}).
| valign="top" | [[User:pinkerton|Mike Pinkerton]], Mark Mentovai  
| valign="top" | [[User:pinkerton|Mike Pinkerton]], Mark Mentovai  
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| valign="top" |Camino Tab Reordering
| valign="top" |Camino Tab Reordering
| valign="top" |Users want to be able to drag tabs to reorder them, as well as drag them to other windows, or drag them out of windows to create a new window.  Bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160720 160720] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318260 318260]
| valign="top" |Users want to be able to drag tabs to reorder them, as well as drag them to other windows, or drag them out of windows to create a new window; {{bug|160720}} and {{bug|318260}}
| valign="top" | [[User:pinkerton|Mike Pinkerton]], Mark Mentovai  
| valign="top" | [[User:pinkerton|Mike Pinkerton]], Mark Mentovai  
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== Minino Mobile Browsing Features and Extensions ==  
== Minimo Mobile Browsing Features and Extensions ==  
    
    
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| valign="top" |Spam Filtering and Other tbird projects
| valign="top" |Spam Filtering Improvements
| valign="top" |More info at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:SummerOfCode2006
| valign="top" |More info at  
[http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Thunderbird:SummerOfCode2006:SPAM Thunderbird SummerOfCode2006 - SPAM ]
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| valign="top" |Other tbird projects
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[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:SummerOfCode2006]
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| valign="top" |ThunderBird extension to leverage Google Desktop Search for e-mail body searches.
| valign="top" | Develop a ThunderBird extension to leverage Google Desktop Search for e-mail body searches
| valign="top" |Reporter: Le Duc Bao
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| valign="top" |Venkman javascript debugger Improvements
| valign="top" |Giving webdevelopers a better JavaScript debugging experience
| valign="top" |Work on Venkman to bring it some good updates/bugfixes/new features. Maybe work to do a 1.0 release? (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141097)
| valign="top" |Work to give webdevelopers better ways of debugging their JavaScript in Firefox.
| valign="top" | Reporter: [[User:GijsKruitbosch|GijsKruitbosch]]
| valign="top" | Reporter: [[User:GijsKruitbosch|GijsKruitbosch]]
Mentor: none so far
Mentor: Robert Ginda & Mike Shaver
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| valign="top" |XUL editor plugin for [http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse]
| valign="top" |Build a XUL editor plugin for [http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse] that leverages the XULRunner component and JS debugger from the [http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ajaxtk Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework] to create a XUL UI development tool.  
| valign="top" |Build a XUL editor plugin for [http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse] that leverages the XULRunner component and JS debugger from the [http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ajaxtk Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework] to create a XUL UI development tool.  
| valign="top" |[[User:Beltzner|Beltzner]]  
| valign="top" |[[User:Beltzner|Beltzner]] & [[MDC:User:Benjamin Smedberg|bsmedberg]]
| valign="top" |submitted 09:31, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
| valign="top" |submitted 09:31, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
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| valign="top" |Write a GUI tool for managing string, localization and l10n work group
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