Comments on: Mozilla Starts Brainstorming Features For Firefox 3 And Beyond

By: TPN :: The Global Geek Podcast

TPN :: The Global Geek Podcast — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:19:53 +0000

The Global Geek Podcast #024…

Welcome to the show this week. Should be a good one, we have a special guest co-host, Knightwise is podcasting “close to amenities” and we have a heap of fun.
Sorry the show is a day late this week but I have a real job that involves shift …

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:14:16 +0000

netster007x wrote:

The one strange one, however, is the P2P support. Would this be like LimeWire within the browser? I think they should probably stick to browsing and dump that idea.

I think this essentially refers to BitTorrent support much like Opera handles it. I have always wanted a great browser that has support for files like BitTorrent but Opera's isn't very good for getting fast downloads. I think you're right and it is something that should be left alone.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:38:08 +0000

Looks like an EXCELLENT list of features! All are amazingly innovative ideas I never would’ve thought of.

The one strange one, however, is the P2P support. Would this be like LimeWire within the browser? I think they should probably stick to browsing and dump that idea.

Otherwise, all look like welcome improvements. I wonder which features Mozilla will put to action?

Also, I noticed many are saying Firefox already has the ability to drag tabs between windows. Correct Firefox can drag the URL from one window into the other, as can any browser, but it can’t actually transfer the tab.
*The ability to drag tabs between windows would mean that the dragged tab would load in the 2nd window in its own tab, in the position dragged to on the tab bar, with scrolling and other tab status remaining constant, and the tab would no longer appear in the first window. If this feature were made, dragging a tab from one Fx window to another would function basically the same as re-ordering tabs.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:48:47 +0000

A good example of the “child tabs” is to use IE 7. Basically if you open a few tabs, go back and select the first tab, and then open another tab it should open immediately next to the first tab instead of after the last one.

By: stadi

stadi — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:31:04 +0000

ffextensionguru wrote:

Allow relative opening of tabs: Child tabs open next to parent tab and not at the end of tab bar.
I don't understand this...what are 'child tabs'?

Child tab is the tab that you open form the "parrent" tab. It would be logical for it to be next to the parrent tab, but in Firefox it is not that way.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:06:33 +0000

Allow relative opening of tabs: Child tabs open next to parent tab and not at the end of tab bar.

I don’t understand this…what are ‘child tabs’?

By: stadi

stadi — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:14:39 +0000

Allow relative opening of tabs: Child tabs open next to parent tab and not at the end of tab bar.

Why do they wait so long with this? Maxthon had this “feature” since the beginning. This is one of the things that keeps me from using Firefox.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:42:20 +0000

I discovered that a while back before I found an extension which would over-ride the default size (postage stamp) of a JavaScript Pop-up window. I would drag the tab into my main Firefox window.

I didn’t even know about dragging between Flock and Firefox until I did that yesterday out of curiosity. Kinda cool since they are two unique applications.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:15:34 +0000

That’s pretty cool, I guess I never tried that. It looks like someone put that on the list because every other “tab draggging” feature was on there. Someone must not have tried it though.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:57:42 +0000

Why is ‘Drag tabs between windows’ on the list? You can already do this. Heck you can even drag tabs between Firefox and Flock.