Just last night netster007x posted a comment about an awesome extension he found called LocationBar2. He said that he found it via FFExtensionGuru’s Blog that linked to the Firefox 3 meeting notes which had a list of extension nominations. These nominations are ideas of what people would like to see included in the final release of Firefox 3. Here are the extensions currently up for nomination along with some information for each one:
- URLFixer – This will monitor the URL’s that you enter in and try to catch any typos that you make.
- LocationBar² – This reminds me of a feature that Vista currently has in Windows Explorer. It essentially creates a breadcrumb trail to the folder that you are currently in so that navigating to another position is just one click away. This extension is really amazing and I can see how it would be useful to a lot of people.
- Firebug – This is used by developers to make designing and testing a website a little easier. For a full list of features see our latest review.
- Console² – This would replace the JavaScript Error console and adds some extra features.
- Site Specific Prefs – This extension lets you save your preferences on a site-by-site basis. It will do things like remember the text zoom as well as some other things. I think this one is also a great idea.
- Investigate download manager extensions – Sounds like they want to enhance the functionality of the built-in download manager. There are several download manager extensions which is probably why they didn’t list one in particular, but the most popular is probably DownThemAll.
- Print Hint – If a printer-friendly version of a website exists a little icon next to the Address Bar will show up to notify users.
- TableTools – Develop something that isn’t exactly like the extension, but allow for certain operations on tables. That way users could do things like sort them all from within the browser.
- Searchbar Autosizer – Have the Search Bar automatically size itself as the user types their query string. One of the best things about the extension is that it also has the option to clear the Search Bar after performing a search. I, however, think that the SearchLoad extension is a little better even thought it doesn’t do the automatic resizing.
There is a section for “other extensions” that includes some popular ones like Tab Mix Plus, but it doesn’t look like those have been nominated yet. Some of these extensions offer some great features that would all add to the greatness of Firefox 3, but I wonder which one(s) they will actually end up implementing?
Out of the extensions listed above, which do you think should be integrated with Firefox 3? I think I have to agree with what nester007x said in his comment that LocationBar2 is the best out of all of them.
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Thanks for the recognition
One slight correction: I actually saw the list of nominated extensions from the link labeled [today's meeting] Fx extension guru posted to show places will not be in Fx3a3 in his comments on “New Features I’ve Found in Firefox 3 so far.”
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LocationBar2 looks like a great extension, hopefully others feel the way we do about it so it can be possibly be included in Fx3.
The one thing that’s a little odd is on the LocationBar2’s Mozilla Update page, it says it hides http, https, ftp, file. Maybe if they add the extension to Fx3 they should skip this part, or make it optional
I must agree about LocationBar2; that extension is brilliant.
I agree, that was one thing that I didn’t find very appealing. Sometimes I like being able to see whether it is an http or https connection.
Okay, that makes a little more sense now since I don’t recall mentioning that extension.
I’m quite surprised that AdBlock was not nominated. That is by far the thing I miss most when I have to use IE
is that all? not very exiciting in my opinion.
i can understand why AdBlock/Plus wasn’t there, although they don’t owe google anything, it wouldn’t be a good idea to have it there.
but where is such things like super drag and go or some sort of gesture support (which i saw that it can b done in very few programming lines). a better download support would be good, but i believe its part of FF3 by now.
they should also add the damn buttons for FAYT.
maybe the rest of the extensions we all know and love are more personal, and not a must have extension.
Well it looks like some these features are also going to be included in the upcoming Netscape 9.0 browser.
I think that Mozilla has too close of ties with Google to include an ad-blocking solution just like Jack of all Trades mentioned. Think of it this way, Mozilla makes their money by users clicking on ads when they use the search box that is built-into Firefox. If they blocked the ads by default then I’m sure they would see a huge hit in their revenue, and since that is what they rely on for their revenue it is no wonder that they don’t include ad-blocking by default.
I agree, and I was very disappointed with the list as well. I think Mozilla isn’t going to focus on features that extensions already bring to the browser though. They will try and do things that can’t already be done with extensions so that users are able to experience something new. Just like in Firefox 2 they implemented a session restore feature which was already extension, but they also added the inline spell check which wasn’t done with an extension yet. I think they try and mix things up a little by providing things that people haven’t seen in a browser before.
UrlFixer is an obvious choice. In the past, mozilla have only added discreet extensions that don’t make massive changes, but are very effective. For example, spell checking and session restore.
I think that Firebug would be a good choice, but I’m not sure that most people will use it. This may alienate a few of the non-geeky firefox fans and add unnecessary bloat
As cool as it would be to have Firebug I agree that it would add unneeded bloat for about 95% of Firefox users. I would rather Mozilla integrate what a bunch of smaller extensions add in terms of features instead of just doing one big extension.