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29 Mar 08

Firefox3/Product Requirements Document - MozillaWiki

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ADD-003e
Complete
Unify add-ons management system and add plugin management system
Michael Wu
bug 382367 for backend changes. bug 339056 for frontend changes. bug 391730 for tracking remaining work.
ADD-001e
At risk
Install Add-on without requiring a browser restart

Requires backend changes to do this reasonably
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- CON-004a
  Complete
  Revised downloads manager
  Shawn Wilsher
  bug 377792, Feature Requirements
  
  CON-005b
  Complete
  Easier retrieval of files that a user has downloaded in the past
  Shawn Wilsher
  bug 377793
  
  CON-006a
  Complete
  Integrate download manager with third-party virus scanners and malware protection
  Rob Arnold
  bug 103487
  
  CON-007a
  Complete
  Support pause/resume for downloads. Improve download handling across multiple sessions
  Michael Wu
  bug 377243, bug 230870
- CON-008a
  
  Create document-parsing framework for detecting microformats
  Michael Kaply
  Feature Requirements
  
  CON-008b
  
  Create API for developers to leverage the microformat detection framework
  Michael Kaply
  Feature Requirements
- GKO-004a
  Complete
  Pass ACID 2 test
  David Baron
  Fixed by reflow branch, see GKO-009b
- GKO-007b
  On track for M11
  
  /mw22 - need to ask
  Add backend elements for offline app support
  Dave Camp
  bug 367447
  
  GKO-008a
  Complete
  Cairo graphics
  Vlad Vukicevic
  bug 322938
  
  GKO-008b
  Complete
  Cocoa widgets on Mac
  Josh Aas
- GKO-015a
  Complete
  Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest
  Jonas Sicking
  bug 389508
- GKO-014a
  At risk
  SVG as image format
- GKO-016f
  At risk
  Offline web browsing
  Dave Camp, Robert O'Callahan
- PASS-001a
  Complete
  Only ask the user to save the password after they know the login has succeeded
  Justin Dolske
  bug 226735
- PLCS-001a
  Complete: code changes landed, community/extension outreach ongoing
  Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places data-model objects to a remote server
  Places Team
  bug 374518
  
  PLCS-001c
  Complete
  Provide platform support to support generic annotations
  Places Team
  bug 374943
  
  PLCS-001d
  Complete: code changes landed, outreach ongoing
  Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility
  Places Team
  bug 374520
- SRCH-001b
  Complete
  Support search engine shortcut keys
  Ryan Flint
  bug 378553
  
  SRCH-001d
  Complete
  Resizable search bar
  Neil Deakin
  bug 267831
- TAB-001a
  At risk
  Quickly group similar tabs together
- TAB-003d
  At risk
  Improve discoverability and usability of undo close tab
  
  bug 357235

Places - MDC

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Services API documentation

History Service
Bookmarks Service
Annotation Service
Livemark Service
Favicon Service
Tagging Service

More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla

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When Firefox 1.0 arrived in November 2004, it was hailed as one of free software's crowning achievements. A team of far-flung volunteers had created a slimmed-down, standards-compliant web browser that beat the pants off Internet Explorer, which then dominated the market with 90 percent share estimates.

First Look: Firefox 3 beta 4

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simpler to locate and work with downloaded files. It's quite nice -- you can easily search through your downloads. Also, Firefox now integrates directly with your virus scanner and shows the scanning being done right inside the download manager.
One not-so-nice change: Mozilla has moved the Home button off of the Navigation toolbar and onto the Bookmarks toolbar. This may have freed up some real estate on the Navigation toolbar, but it means that if you normally hide the Bookmarks toolbar (which I do), you no longer have access to your Home button. The change does not make much sense.

28 Mar 08

Icon Inventory for Firefox 3

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Alex Faaborg - » The Firefox 3 Visual Refresh: System Integration

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Fitting in to the visual appearance of the native operating system may seem like a reasonably obvious decision, but it certainly isn’t one that every cross-platform application or windowing toolkit makes.
two different sets of icons for Windows: a set for Windows XP that uses the XP color palette, and will have the correct plastic reflectance, and a set for Windows Vista that will use a larger color pallet for objects, a smaller color pallet for glyphs, and the icons will be appropriately shiny.
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- For OS X we are following the new unified style that is used consistently throughout all applications on Leopard. Firefox will look the same on 10.4 as it does on 10.5, similar to iTunes, and iLife 08. We are also looking into a variety of other little touches to visually integrate on the Mac
- One reason we want to focus to this level of detail on visual integration with various platforms is because the Web browser is an incredibly central piece of the user’s operating system, and we don’t want the user’s initial reaction to be that they have modified their computer to add some type of strange, foreign application.

Mozilla Weaves Web Platform for User Data - ReadWriteWeb

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"We've definitely been following openid, oath, etc. very closely as well," he wrote. "The focus first should be on what can and should the browser do as an intelligent agent on behalf of the user and then we can determine how best to get there from here."
Wow, they just invented Google Browser Sync. I'm glad that hasn't been around for the last 2 or 3 years.

Maybe next they can "invent" Grease Monkey, or a thing that puts the weather forecast in the bottom of your browser.

Mozilla floats Weave as Web platform | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

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Mozilla has 15 to 20 percent share of the browser market, enough to make Weave relevant if it succeeds with the project. And, Mozilla.org has projects ranging from instant messenging and email to calendaring and Web page editing to fill out its platform. It’s not going to replace the incumbents, but it will add a strong voice in the mix. Importantly, Mozilla could help establish industry standards that make the Web as an operating system more friction free.

Weave: Initial Use Cases

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Then he realizes that his family photos, email and calendar are all hosted online, as well as all of the services he uses to manage his life: his banking, shopping, purchased music and more. With his replacement computer in hand, he installs Firefox, logs in to his Mozilla account and resumes his online life without skipping a beat
He logs into his Mozilla account and his personalized experience returns. And, just as importantly, when he logs out, all of the cookies, bookmarks and other information is cleared from his Mom's PC so that she doesn't accidentally log in to his email account or anything else he was browsing.
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- Because her mobile Firefox "knew" about what she had been browsing at her desktop, she only needs to type the first few letters of the restaurant name and she's back at the Web site. They easily make their way to a great dinner.
- Ken creates a new bookmarks folder for the trip and shares it with Karen. He bookmarks their flight itinerary. As he finds pages for hotels that look good, newspaper articles about local attractions and restaurant reviews, he adds them to this folder. When Karen can grab a few minutes, she can look at the pages Ken has seen and add her own. She can reorganize, annotate, and organize them on a calendar.

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave

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We intend to provide the infrastructure and an consistent model for how a user can open up their browser metadata to friends and third-party applications. These use cases are just examples of the types of things we would like to explore, and have others build applications on top of.
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- Weave 0.1 (December 21, 2007)
  basic framework and server-side in place for testing and experimentation
  authentication with a single online service provider (e.g. labs.mozilla.com)
  bookmark and history synchronization to the server from multiple clients
  default encryption of all user data with a placeholder algorithm
- Weave 0.2 (Early 2008)
  initial Web service APIs for developers to build on
  user controls and ability to delegate (and revoke) access rights to specific bits of browser metadata
  UI to enable sharing on applicable interfaces

Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

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Now we start to get into the platform. In 2005, 15 Mozilla employees serviced 15 million Firefox users. In 2008, there are 150 Mozilla employees servicing 165 million Firefox users.
Mozilla as a platform. The items already discussed above suggest ways in which Firefox can function as a platform for Web innovation, but the possibilities are much, much broader. My browser knows (or could know) how I spend my money, where I spend my time, who I like, etc. Would I allow--indeed, beg--Firefox to collect information on these things in order to provide me more tailored advertising, social networking, etc.? Absolutely. The key is user control of her data.