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** This sort of option should be kept as an extension for FF, as when you add too many sorts of options like this, you end up with a browser that has too much in it (akin to [eek!] IE). --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ** This sort of option should be kept as an extension for FF, as when you add too many sorts of options like this, you end up with a browser that has too much in it (akin to [eek!] IE). --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ||
***Options are good, but this is unnecessary. Keep this as an add-on. --[[User:Armaetin|Armaetin]] 17:46, 24 January 2007 (PST) | ***Options are good, but this is unnecessary. Keep this as an add-on. --[[User:Armaetin|Armaetin]] 17:46, 24 January 2007 (PST) | ||
****STOP using "Groupthink". It doe's not help the process, it hinders it significantly. The OP has it exactly right. Maybe not ALL of these features should be added by default, but the majority of them are already on other ares in the application. It just seems ridiculous and lazy to not add them. If you don't like the idea, then add an "on/off" option to it. That solves it for everyone. Thinking that the rest of the world feels like you do or that you are supiour to everyone else, is absurd. It should have as many functions as it possibly can. This is what makes a good multi/research app. We at least need sort functions, BADLY, for the extension list window. | |||
* If it's possible, changing the theme without restarting (like it's managed in Songbird) would be great. | * If it's possible, changing the theme without restarting (like it's managed in Songbird) would be great. | ||
** As long as FF does not become adversely affected by this (things such as graphical artifacts that may be common when switching themes), I fully support this idea. Restarting can take long on a laptop with a slow hard drive :( --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ** As long as FF does not become adversely affected by this (things such as graphical artifacts that may be common when switching themes), I fully support this idea. Restarting can take long on a laptop with a slow hard drive :( --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ||
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* How about a Foxmarks-style feature that encompasses not just bookmarks, but extensions, themes, search-engines, and settings? New users could configure it on first-load, and old-users, when using different computers, could login and have their favorite stuff instantly downloaded and installed instead of spending ten minutes searching for everything. More details and mockups of the idea here: [http://www.hell-toupee.com/foxperience] | * How about a Foxmarks-style feature that encompasses not just bookmarks, but extensions, themes, search-engines, and settings? New users could configure it on first-load, and old-users, when using different computers, could login and have their favorite stuff instantly downloaded and installed instead of spending ten minutes searching for everything. More details and mockups of the idea here: [http://www.hell-toupee.com/foxperience] | ||
* When an extension is downloaded from an untrusted site, the user should be given a dialogue telling them that, giving details of the site (to prevent phishing), asking them if they really want to install it, and giving them an option to do so. At the moment, it just gets blocked, and the only way round it is to add that site to your list of trusted sites. This is not only really clunky, it's a security hole - just because i trust the site for this extension doesn't mean i want to trust it ever again. If it's thought that this is not a good default behaviour, it should at least be allowed as an 'expert/reckless lunatic mode'. | * When an extension is downloaded from an untrusted site, the user should be given a dialogue telling them that, giving details of the site (to prevent phishing), asking them if they really want to install it, and giving them an option to do so. At the moment, it just gets blocked, and the only way round it is to add that site to your list of trusted sites. This is not only really clunky, it's a security hole - just because i trust the site for this extension doesn't mean i want to trust it ever again. If it's thought that this is not a good default behaviour, it should at least be allowed as an 'expert/reckless lunatic mode'. | ||
* Make add-ons visible for the current or all profiles at the user's choice, if easily possible. This avoids having "standard" extensions (e.g. RIP) to be installed over and over again. See item in the "Add-on manager" section about single/all users also. --ThomasP | |||
== Add-on manager == | == Add-on manager == | ||
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* For the "Themes" tab of the Add-on manager, always keep the "Firefox (default)" theme on top, maybe with a separator under it, and then alphabetize the user-added themes below that. | * For the "Themes" tab of the Add-on manager, always keep the "Firefox (default)" theme on top, maybe with a separator under it, and then alphabetize the user-added themes below that. | ||
*When switching themes, put a "Restart Firefox" button just like when you install an extension. I don't like to have the "save tabs on shutdown" option enabled, so a restart button saves me from remembering all of my tabs. There is one for after installing add-ons, so I don't see why there isn't one for switching themes, since it requires a restart. | *When switching themes, put a "Restart Firefox" button just like when you install an extension. I don't like to have the "save tabs on shutdown" option enabled, so a restart button saves me from remembering all of my tabs. There is one for after installing add-ons, so I don't see why there isn't one for switching themes, since it requires a restart. | ||
*Add-on | *Fully automatic Add-on Update a-la Windows - optional: | ||
**DO NOT prompt before downloading and installing updates for add-ons - just do it. | **DO NOT prompt before downloading and installing updates for add-ons - just do it. It disturbs the flow too much. When was the time someone actually chose not to update? | ||
**DO NOT ask to restart - wait till next start. | **DO NOT ask to restart - just wait till next start. | ||
**DO NOT show updated add-ons window after restart - | **DO NOT show updated add-ons window after restart - just show a little notifier icon somehere out of the way with a tooltip showing the list of updated add-ons if you move your mouse over it. | ||
**DO silently succeed | **DO silently succeed! | ||
*** Seconded! [[User:Nonzenze|Nonzenze]] 18:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
== Remote extensions == | == Remote extensions == | ||