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improve firefox context menu  
Written by moose the 2 Oct 09 at 17:35. Not an idea
I don't need most of the items on the context menu and I guess most users don't need them. They bother me, because sometimes I click by accident on them:

* Save as bookmark (with FF 3.0 you have this nice star in the url bar and under "bookmarks" you can also save them)
* Send Link
* Copy Image URL
* Send Image
* Use as background image (you can easily do this in gnome)
* back / forward (you have icons)
* reload (F5 + icon)
* stopp (ESC + icon)


To check weather most other users behave the same way I made a proposal for a mozilla test pilot test: http://labs.mozilla.com/testpilot/
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Solution #1: Delete and implement new function
Written by moose the 2 Oct 09 at 17:35.
Delete those items (if the test pilot study showed the same results for others) and exted firefox with something like a menu editor: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/710



See the 2 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 5 Oct 11 at 15:57) >>

localized search engine plugins for firefox  
Written by moose the 5 May 09 at 17:47. New
I am german, so if I install Ubuntu I install the german version. Almost everything is translated, but not the search engine plugin in firefox (upper right corner). For most of those search engines (Ebay, Wikipedia, Amazon) exists a german version that I have to add with http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ or by going on this website.
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Solution #1: add plugins of other languages
Written by moose the 5 May 09 at 17:47.
Replace the english plugins by language specific plugins if they exist. If you chose an english installation install the english plugins, if you chose german installation german plugins.

e.g.
english:
http://www.amazon.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.ebay.com/

german:
http://www.amazon.de/
http://de.wikipedia.org/
http://www.ebay.de/

edit: just found the launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-firefox-locale-all/+bug/52537
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Solution #2: #1 and find a way to allow it to follow the session locale.
Written by Ssdg the 6 May 09 at 17:13.
If the plugins are set at the installation, what if your share your computer with a foreigner? move to another country? etc?

Maybe ubufox should do the trick.
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Solution #3: #1 and #2 and also change the "Latest Headlines" section
Written by Attiliron the 9 Dec 09 at 20:55.
Since the BBC news are interesting to me, they are not very usefull for the average user and should be replaced by local news. The string "Latest Headlines" should be localized too.

See the 2 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 6 Mar 10 at 16:12) >>

To many websites in Firefox history  
Written by moose the 5 May 09 at 17:59. New
I vist / search a lots of websites in the internet. As Firfox developed the new "Awesomebar" I've been very happy because it was easier to find sites I've already visited. But the more sites I visit (and search in google) the less useful is the awesomebar and deleting something from the history is quite time consuming
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Solution #1: add blacklist for firefox history
Written by moose the 5 May 09 at 17:59.
For some websites I like to have the website in the awesomebar, but not the single pages.

e.g. I want to have google, but not google searches in my history. So I'd like to add google to the blacklist. Google websites would not appear in the history.
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Solution #2: Have a custom homepage with links to favourite sites
Written by malofighter the 5 May 09 at 19:00.
Startpage with links to favorite sites with a thumbnail of the website.
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Solution #3: Ability to delete entries in the awsomebar
Written by malofighter the 9 May 09 at 17:11.
Have a little cross next to all the entries so you can delete the ones you dont wan't.
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Solution #4: never add certain status codes
Written by moose the 5 Jun 09 at 19:14.
I don't want those 404 - page could not be found - messages in my history. 500 - internal server error would be another message I would not like to have in my history.

Don't get me wrong - I want Firefox to decide with the response code weather to add it to the history, not with the title.

List of HTTP status codes

See the 6 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 12 May 09 at 19:13) >>