User:Auk/firefox-wishlist

Here's my wishlist for features/refinements in Firefox...

GTK integration

• IMPORTANT: Integrate with GNOME VFS to tell how to open various mimetypes!! This should be completely transparent!

• GTK+ detachable menus
• make HTML forms follow the gtk theme — this should be a piece of cake, no?
• use GTK native print dialogue

Icons

Use gtk+ icons for universal actions (e.g. undo/redo, back/forward, home).

• Detect some from the theme (like native GTK+ apps)
• at least get some Tango icons in there

Toolbars

Customizing

Raise favor of inline toolbar editing via a middle-click-hold and a "Move" context menu option — select and drag mouse or use right/left arrows.

Preserve the Customize... dialog for add/remove functionality and accessibility. Do not require the dialog except for adding new items.

(In short, more like the GNOME panel.)

For moving entire toolbars, use a drag-and-drop technique — Windows, GTK+, and OOo use grippers at the far left/top, that are always visible. Also, in the Customize dialog position controls should be presented.

• GTK does not do this with the menu bar.

Overflow

Place an arrow-down dropdown button at far right/bottom when the window is too small to hold all buttons, widgets, or tabs.

Menus

• GTK+ detachable menus

• The two email entries under the Tools menu should be removed. Firefox is not an email client!

• Pare down the context menus, as it is they have a few too many entries. (Cluttered, a little bit difficult to navigate, especially when extensions add entries.) Entries I think would not suffer to be removed:
  • Select All and it's separator (View bg Image should move to directly underneath "Properties" entry.)
  • Send Link...

• "Open Link in New Tab" should open in foreground (remove fg/bg pref); add "Open Link in Background"

• Add "Duplicate Tab" feature underneath New Tab (in tab context menu)

• Some context menu entries should be cloned in the main menus.
  • "Reload All Tabs". View » beneath "Reload"
  • Duplicate Tab (see above). File » beneath "New Tab"

Somebody make an extension!

Back entries notification

What: An entry in the statusbar that shows how many back (and possibly forward) entries there are for the current tab.

Why: I often right-click to see before closing a tab, because I am uncertain whether I forked from an old tab, or not.