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There is an overwhelming choice of browser plugins for any given media type  
Written by Hawke the 22 Oct 09 at 02:21. New
When one attempts to play a video in Firefox (at, e.g. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html ), there is a prompt to install a browser plugin.

Unfortunately, this prompt provides six options for Quicktime, and four options for RealVideo.

No hints are provided to the user as to which plugin is most likely to work. If they guess wrong, there’s no easy way to change their mind.
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Solution #1: Pick one plugin and go with it
Written by Hawke the 22 Oct 09 at 02:21.
Ideally, there should be no user choice here. Ubuntu should choose one plugin that works with the selected media type and prompt the user to install it. If no plugin always works, the best one should be enhanced so that it does.
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Solution #2: Allow easy switching of plugins
Written by Hawke the 22 Oct 09 at 02:27.
There should be some way to easily choose which plugin to use after the fact. Figuring out which one is currently in use, which package it’s in, removing it, restarting the browser, and going through the plugin installation wizard again is too much of a hassle.

And when multiple plugins are installed, there’s no (easy?) way to choose which one will actually be used for a particular media type.
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Solution #3: Show user ratings next to each plugin
Written by stoffel the 24 Oct 09 at 14:54.
There are plans to add support for user ratings to the Software Center ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter ).

I think it would be a good idea to also add support for these ratings in the browser plugin choice dialog, for instance by showing a certain number of stars next to each plugin.

In this way it will be easy for users to make a better plugin choice.

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Firefox crash reports should also go to Mozilla  
Written by Tanner the 28 Oct 09 at 22:22. New
Right now, the crash reports don't go to mozilla, making it near impossible for Mozilla Firefox devs and QA, to fix it. It would be nice when people come to Mozilla SuMo for support that they have about:crashes working, and having valid ID's. If they don't have that, its hard to tell what's wrong with it. This should be fixed, because it makes it tons easier for Mozilla support and Devs to fix the crashing.
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Solution #1: Have about:crashes a valid URL
Written by Tanner the 28 Oct 09 at 22:22.
We should make about:crashes a valid URL, and crash reports should go to mozilla.

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Rebranding Shiretoko back to Firefox  
Written by phsab the 4 Nov 09 at 19:10. New
When upgrading Firefox it gets rebranded into something called Shiretoko: now it has a different icon, a different name, a different UserAgent-string.

First of all I'm wondering why? When checking the Mozilla-site I can't find any indication that the name Firefox has disappeared. 3.5.4 is still called Firefox. Why not stick to how the source names its application?

The UserAgent has the value of Shiretoko. This breaks a lot of webscripts because they don't know that Shiretoko==Firefox. To get things working properly again one needs to change the value in the about:config window.

Furthermore it's confusing when giving users support. Imagine a support agent saying 'Now please open the Firefox webbrowser' and having the user responsing that he/she doesn't have Firefox in Applications > Internet. I think it will take a few minutes for the support agent to realize that Shiretoko==Firefox.

Somehow also the searchbox got changed. Now there's only the option to search the ask.com site instead of Google, Wikipedia, etc.
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Solution #1: Stick to the versions of Mozilla-branch
Written by phsab the 4 Nov 09 at 19:10.
I would like to see Shiretoko and the upcoming development names to be rebranded back to Firefox. The searchbox untouched, so that we can search the way we know from previous versions. Now it's all confusing and this is not what people expect when they upgrade Firefox.


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