If you are searching a lot in text files having a separate search window is cumbersome.

Based on idea 5321, by Eldmannen (about removing yahoo).

We should remove ebay from the default installed searches, because:
- It reduces competition with other auction sites.
- Recently there was a uproar about changes in ebay which make in some case make it unfair. I agree!
- Ebay VERY heavily pushes Paypal, which is acknowledged by many to be very dodgy. A lot of people know someone who has been screwed by ebay. And here in aus, I had to upgrade my account because they had a bug which prevented me accessing my money (which is very unprofessional). The freenet Project owner was also screwed by ebay (and it demonstrated they don't research at all claims made against customers), and another friend of mine was charged 2x the amount he was supposed to be receiving because someone used a stolen credit card against him (so seems they profit from illegal credit cards).
- If ebay was a bank, they would have a 24/7 riot outside their building by customers who were screwed.
- Ebay doesn't exactly listen to feedback. If are a typical large company, where you have no way of providing feedback (if you scream at them over the phone, maybe they will let you speak to a manager). But they clearly dont care much (no forums).

Its to our advantage to promote competition within the auction sites. More competition means lower costs for us, and better payment methods. We should try to encourage the development of a world wide auction site that is more consumer/seller friendly, that actually promotes active feedback and improvement.

There is nothing stopping a patch being applied to the firefox code to prevent ebay being a default search engine (and it shouldn't be hard to do).

This new benchmark shows that native linux version of Firefox is very slow comparing to Windows version, even when run on Wine.

Having two Firefox instances running on two workspaces, you cannot move a tab from one workspace to another.

It was my opinion that firefox used a bit too much screen space in the netbook remix. Together with the gnome panel on top, the bookmarks bar and status bar, it takes up a lot of the limited vertical resolution of a netbook screen.

The main goal I would like to achieve with this is to give the user by default a browser that is much more usable within the tiny space of a netbook screen. I feel that tweaking the Firefox interface is almost as important as the custom taylored menu screen people see when they start their operating system, since the web browser is probably the single most used application. I believe it would add greatly to making a functional and pleasant to use netbook distribution.

Firefox should save the original location of its downloaded files to the files themselves (GVFS).

Example:
When I'm surfing the web searching for information for a paper I'm writing, I usually download lots of PDF articles and images. However when I'm making my reference list later on, I don't remember where I got the files from.

One could check the Firefox "Downloads" window, but this information is lost when the navigation history is cleared and is not linked to the file on the harddrive (which means no automatic linkage of the source URL's to files on the disk). The originating URL should be saved with the file itself.

In the nearing Intrepid release, Firefox display an EULA to the user the first time it is started.

This raises a number of concerns:
- the EULA refusal doesn't prevent the user in any way from using Firefox, therefore EULA's is just noise added to the user experience.
- the EULA agreement would make firefox a non-free application which should be moved to multiverse.
- refusing the EULA would (legally) leave the user without a browser in the default install.
- EULA approval on first start would make firefox less usable when using the Live CD.

So far the options are the following:

- Keeping firefox as it is, even with the EULA.
- Switch to Epiphany as the default webbrowser.
- Adopt IceWeasel from debian (which is firefox, with logo and brand replaced)

You can find the full discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656

*** If you'd like to vote for keeping firefox as it is, vote this idea. ***

if you preferer to adopt IceWeasel vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/

if you prefer to adopt Epiphany vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13202/

Jaunty has a great new notification system, but Firefox doesn't use it. All system notifications should be made to appear in the new OSD scheme when possible so that we don't have to look all over the screen to find out what's happening (that's the whole idea, right?)

When Firefox recovers from a crash or restart, it should remember what windows were on which workspaces and recover them to there correct position.

This should work for both compiz and metacity.

Swfdec and Gnash are free software flash players which work on Ubuntu. When using these, for example browsing YouTube, the "page loaded" progress bar fills up even though the bulk of the page (ie. the video) hasn't downloaded yet.

It is a small issue, but would be nice to fix.