In Windows, the Firefox Preferences option is in the Tools menu. In Linux/Unix, it's in the Edit menu. It makes a lot more sense in Tools than it does in Edit, and moving it would help cross-platform familiarity.

hi, it would be great to have a better KDE Integration in Firefox and other GTK-Apps.
First of all, the gtk-qt engine (or whatever the relevant package is called) should be integrated AND CONFIGURED by default in kubuntu, so that firefox an other gtk-apps look like the kde-apps.
and to the features: there should be a way, perhaps a firefox addon with that you can choose your default file-browser, your default pdf viewer and so on.
If you have installed gnome and kde on the same machiene, its horrible that firefox always opens pdf-documents in gnome apps, uses the gnome file manager and so on...

i think thats a problem of almoust all gtk apps, there should be a way to configure that

Now see the reason I moved from Ubuntu to Linux Mint (based off Ubuntu) was because so many things were already installed that weren't on Ubuntu, while having a small file size.

Off that point, one of the things that nags me the most when installing Ubuntu is that there is no flash player pre-installed on the OS, and is one of the main things that makes Ubuntu "not out of the box".

So my suggestion is that when you open Firefox for the first time, it should already be able to use flash; preferably version 9 and up.

It seems that email is a very very unsafe mode of communication. Although I don't have any world domination plans as yet, I would like to keep my things private from intruding governments as well as companies.

I've been looking a bit around and it seems that there is a lot possible, but that it's just very fragmented; GPG and FireGPG together with some extra functionalities would help us get started.

What if you created one package out of Seahorse/GPA/KGPG and FireGPG which after installation had the following functionalities for for example gmail (more email programs should follow);
- The first time you start it up, a key-pair is being made for your email address. The public key is automatically uploaded to the PGP Global Directory which then verifies the email adres with a verification email.
- When you send an email it automatically looks in the Global Directory whether the person you send the email has a public key and if it finds one, it automatically encrypts and sends the message. Also it automatically signs the email using your private key.
- When you receive an encrypted message, it automatically unencrypts it and checks the signatures using the Global Directory.

Using a system like this would get many people to use it since it is not so complicated anymore and just one package. The more people post public keys, the more it gets accepted by other email programs while it doesn't interrupt the current flow of emails since you can still send normal emails as well.

If you think intruding governments are taking a bit too much away from our privacy these days, please vote UP!

Links:
http://www.getfiregpg.org/
http://www.gnome.org/projects/seahorse/
http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html

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When trying to do a personal web page, a huge lack i used to feel on a web browser like Firefox, Galeon, and so many others, is the possibility of using .xpm pictures on a web page as easy i can use .png or .jpg

Of course many people can see this as not interesting idea, since .xpm can be double as large of an uncompressed .tif or .bmp, but the interesting is the flexibility we have on this kind of picture format, since it is a text-editable format, very easy to be done from a php script from the server, for example...

.xpm could be considered one of the default picture formats everywhere, specially because its flexibility. I truly home w3c.org could help supporting this idea as well.