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| valign="top" | This will be a Firefox extension through which a user can encrypt and secure his stuff. The files that can be encrypted can be mp3, flash , video , docs or even a zip file around size 500-600 mb. There will Be several Encryption Techniques according to the kind of File to be encrypted a user will have choice out of them and can also add a key given by his own in encryption and same same will be required when decryption will take place.''' *''' The Reasons Firefox should have this one :-  '''1*''' all users use to upload their stuff in various file sharing/ uploading sites for easy share , many a times we wish only particular persons should get that stuff from other side any time just by using this extension and user key that he gave to the receiver. '''2*''' More over we can upload our stuff and secure/encrypt it easily through firefox without any need of any external software. '''3*''' no one can make any changes or misuse our stuff without our permission '''4*''' any kind of file can be secured/encrypted. '''5*''' Users can upload as many stuff he wish because its secure now '''6*''' '''Best One''' There will different encryption techniques to choose from according to the stuff and size , which will take minimum time and no data loss at all.

| valign="top" | Why does this have anything to do with Firefox? -- Gerv  <br><br>@Gerv  * I have mentioned the reasons please read them i am a student of B.tech(CSE) and realy wish to work on this project. How should i send you more details on this please mention.

 

Kapil: you can propose anything you like; it doesn't have to be an official idea. -- Gerv

| valign="top" | A Firefox extension that stores/retrieves cookies on a server instead of locally, allowing cross-machine cookie sharing. Includes a UI to choose which cookies to share. This is similar to Google Browser Sync, but is open-source (including server-side code so users can run their own servers if they like).

| valign="top" | How does this relate to [http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/ Weave]? -- Gerv.<br><br>Seems to fit nicely with weave. Weave allows for plugins; let's make this a weave plugin. Note that weave currently only supports history and bookmarks, not cookies.

'''Services:''' Avahi can detect all the hardwares capable with [http://www.zeroconf.org/ IPv4LL] addressing and can access all the services like FTP servers, shared files available on remote machine running Avahi. '''Benefits to Firefox users''': They can access printers , FTP servers, Web servers, SSH Remote terminal available on local network with Firefox. We can develop some kind of protocol as KDE people have for [http://avahi.org/download/gallery/konqueror-zeroconf-browser.png  Konqueror] to access Avahi services. Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173804 173804]

| valign="top" | Sunil: why does Firefox need to do any of those things? We don't need to manage printers, for example - and we print to them via the OS, which does all the hard work. Konqueror is not a good comparison because it does far more things in the KDE desktop than Firefox will ever do. -- Gerv <br><br>@Gerv: This would make firefox capable to access Zeroconf networks. To implement Zeroconf, many distributions are using Avahi. Resources could be anything, not just a printer.<br><br>@Gerv: see bug 173804. It's very useful to discover webservers on your network, or to configure devices (if they use a webserver). Try it out in Safari. -- jhermans<br><br>@jhermans: Thanks about the bug information.

| valign="top" | Šimon - if you want this to happen, you are going to have to find a mentor; I'm not sure anyone in the Mozilla community knows much about KDE. Perhaps it would be better as a KDE project? -- Gerv<br><br>A KDE project? You must be kidding. The source code of Firefox has to be modified to it at least follow freedesktop.org standards. Why should this be a KDE project? If Firefox developers don't know standards, then maybe they should learn them. But why should KDE developers understand Firefox code? -- Šimon<br><br>Someone from one project is going to have to understand the code of the other. And it seems that the reason we don't have KDE support at the moment is that no-one in the Mozilla project cares about KDE enough. So, for a start, it might be hard to find a mentor. Which is why I suggested approaching it from the KDE side. -- Gerv

| valign="top" | mkanat says that the current WebService isn't really complete enough for this. So, at minimum, any proposal would need to also include enhancements to the WebService itself. -- Gerv

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