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Add ability for online accounts on the sidebar to be opened in a new tab  
Written by Mathias the 29 Apr 13 at 06:11. New
The online accounts that you can enable on the sidebar like facebook, youtube, amazone, etc always open in a new window all though I have firefox already running. I would like to have the option to be able to open them in a new tab instead.
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Solution #1: Open in a new tab using the ctrl key
Written by Mathias the 29 Apr 13 at 06:11.
I propose that when you'd have your internet browser already running and you press for example ctrl + the facebook logo that facebook would then open in a new tab of your current browser window.

I say to enable it only with the ctrl key so that people who would not want to open these websites in a new tab won't have to.

and why 'ctrl'? because it is a standard worldwide option. Whenever you click on a link on the internet while holding 'ctrl' it will open automatically in a new tab.
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Solution #2: Solution #2: Always open in a new tab if Firefox is running on current workspace
Written by PaddyLandau the 29 Apr 13 at 14:14.
If Firefox is open on the current workspace, open the bookmark in a new tab in that running window.

But if Firefox is not open on the current workspace (or not open at all), open the bookmark in a new window of Firefox.

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Fix so that WIFI may complete connection before Browser loads  
Written by Gyropyge the 19 Sep 12 at 09:38. New
The actual problem:
When a computer using WIFI is booted, the WIFI often does not complete its connection before Firefox loads, so as a result, the page(s) under Firefox report that there is not an Internet connection even if there is one. (Less experienced users are put off by this, and it is not my impression Ubuntu is only for Geeks.)


Where it has been a problem:
Several users whom I introduced to Ubuntu, and whom I have been unofficially supporting, have reported to me the same "bug", but I'm not certain it is so much a bug as an inconvenient arrangement. You see, I tend to put the Firefox Web Browser into Startup Applications of my users. Historically this worked well when the computers have been connected to the internet through a direct Ethernet line. The increase in the use of WIFI has led to a new problem.

When this happens to me, I just right-click on any tab and select "Reload All Tabs". Those I have been informally supporting are more often led to believe their internet is down. This is tiresome. At the moment about all I can do is remove Firefox from Startup and this forces the users to open it manually, which in effect is rather like a delay or condition. Hardly elegant.


Ubuntu version and hardware affected:
Affected versions of Ubuntu range from 10.04 to 12.04. Computers affected are all laptops mostly connected to the internet by WIFI. The problem (almost) never occurs when the computers are connected via an Ethernet cable. When an Ethernet cable is in use and it occurs, then the cause is literally that the internet connection is not working.
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Solution #1: Permit items in "startup applications" to be delayed loading
Written by Gyropyge the 19 Sep 12 at 09:38.
In fact I would propose either or both of two proposed solutions:

The first one would probably be adequate but would not work 100% of the time:
1) A TIME DELAY before a particular app will load in Startup Applications. I would imagine setting a "Time Delay" box in the edit screen for each separate item in the Startup Applications screen. One of the choices should probably be "Load Last Plus _x_ seconds"

This second one would be ideal, but might not be as easy to integrate.
2) Would it possible to force Firefox to not load until an Internet connection were found?

I'm offering both solutions because they both have merit and might prove useful.
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Solution #2: Intermediate script to launch the browser
Written by cheesehead the 19 Sep 12 at 14:37.
In Startup Applications, launch an intermediate script instead of the browser.

The script checks for an active network connection, or waits for an active connection to appear (or any other criteria the user wants), then launches the browser.

A helper script means no changes need be made to the upstream browser, nor to the desktop launcher. Launching the browser manually from the desktop or command-line (to use localhost:// , for example) still works the current way.
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Solution #3: Load firefox but enhance the error managing.
Written by Ssdg the 19 Sep 12 at 16:33.
How about allowing Firefox to change it's error page when no connection is detected [1] and reloading the page(s) when the connection is back on-line.

Said error page *could* say: As of this moment, your computer is not connected to the Internet. Please wait. As soon as a connection is established, your page will load.

Of course, Firefox have options not to load a page until the tab gets the focus. This feature should not interfere with this behavior.

[1] exemple: 1) checking the interfaces' status and 2) http-pinging ubuntu.com or firefox.com


PS (unrelated to the solution): If you ask me, this is a mainstream firefox problem.
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Solution #4: Make Startup delay netapps to not load until an Internet connection exists
Written by Gyropyge the 19 Sep 12 at 21:54.
This was actually the second of two possible solutions I proposed with my suggestion. It seems currently the format only allows the author to post a single proposed solution.

See the 7 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 5 Oct 12 at 14:02) >>

Put the gedit search in a toolbar like in Firefox  
Written by ubbrainy the 14 Mar 10 at 22:05. Not an idea
If you are searching a lot in text files having a separate search window is cumbersome.
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Solution #1: Create a searchbar for gedit like in Firefox
Written by ubbrainy the 14 Mar 10 at 22:05.
Something like this: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/img/en/tignish/features/find.png

It's much easier to handle, stays open, and doesn't bother you...
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Solution #2: Solution #1 + add "search all files" option
Written by annex666 the 26 Mar 10 at 12:40.
I often find myself editing a number of files at once and think an option to search in all files would be really useful - rather than having to search in each file separately.
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Solution #3: Also Include a Settings Dropdown
Written by Penguin Guy the 29 Mar 10 at 19:50.
Like #1, but also include a dropdown that'll extend the box to include the usual options such as 'match case' and 'match entire word only'.


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Solution #4: Also add a Replace Feature
Written by Penguin Guy the 29 Mar 10 at 20:17.
Like #1, but also add a similar feature for the find and replace dialogue.


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Solution #5: Integrate GNOME DO into Nautilus
Written by SuNk8 the 11 Apr 10 at 09:43.
GNOME Do is quite popular. So, instead of creating another application, we could simply integrate GNOME DO Search into Nautilus. That was we can search not only our files but also all our bookmarks, mail and such other stuff.

And if I'm not mistaken, GNOME DO is maintained by Canonical and is under heavy development.

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Safe ActiveX Alternative  
Written by snifflz20 the 20 Mar 10 at 00:54. Won't implement
There needs to be a safe active x alternative built in to firefox if possible because some users of Ubuntu have job related websites that they go to and some of the features of the websites require ActiveX and I absolutely hate windows so that feature of the website will just have to be an empty link for now!
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Solution #2: IE6 with ActiveX alternative for Wine
Written by Gaz Davidson the 20 Mar 10 at 02:08.
Give Wine an IE6 alternative for browsing ActiveX enabled corporate intranet "web" applications.

Although supporting ActiveX is ugly and nasty and evil, it would allow places which use software such as HP Quality Center to switch to Linux.
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Solution #3: Let ActiveX die
Written by vektor the 20 Mar 10 at 07:38.
Pull the plug. It has been seriously flawed from the beginning, no real need to keep it alive anymore.
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Solution #4: Non Windows
Written by snifflz20 the 20 Mar 10 at 19:45.
I'm talking about a possibility of creating a new type of non-viral, non windows activex that has no problems
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Solution #5: Not ActiveX
Written by snifflz20 the 20 Mar 10 at 21:17.
We need to come up with something else that is not activex at all that will make web pages work that require activex.
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Solution #6: ActiveX sandbox.
Written by Faldegast the 24 Mar 10 at 16:26.
Use a sandboxed Wine to run the ActiveX plugin using the existing code in mozilla. The trick is to get a plugin for the Windows version of Firefox to run in Wine while actually running the Linux version of Firefox.
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Solution #7: Wine-gecko ActiveX support.
Written by Faldegast the 24 Mar 10 at 16:35.
If Wine-gecko had ActiveX support it sould be easy to use that in order to make a Wine-dependent browser that can show ActiveX. As most ActiveX controls require the Windows API Wine would be required anyway.
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Solution #8: Make your own Firefox Extension (or get someone else to do it)
Written by Ronius the 1 Apr 10 at 21:49.
I don't feel this really comes as an issue relevant to Ubuntu development as much as to Firefox extension development. However, I can see perfect sense in getting some sort of functionality for business use, even if it is an archaic web "technology".
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Solution #9: Google "native client"
Written by jwal the 2 Apr 10 at 14:05.
Google's "native client" project might be a viable alternative, depending on your requirements. It is a sandbox for running native x86 code as long as it can verify the safety of the code. There is a slightly modified toolchain for compiling safe binaries.

See http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ for more information.

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Thumbnails of images in the filebrowser of the webrowsers.  
Written by Levo75 the 24 Apr 09 at 08:26. New
This is specifically for those moments when you browse through your imagefolder to find a specific picture to upload and all you see are 8x8 microthumbnails of the pictures and their filenames. The large thumbnail view like in vista and windows XP would be a very good source for reference. I don't know if Microsoft has any patents on this so I'll leave it to it if it's so.

For any ubuntu users that are also channers, this would be a great improvement.
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Solution #1: Solution to viewing larger thumbnails in the filebrowser in webrowsers.
Written by Levo75 the 24 Apr 09 at 08:26.
Whenever you click upload on any website, lets say flicker, or tinypic.com, you get a mini filebrowser to select your image. Going through a picturefolder of your vacation pictures for example usually don't have very clear names, like DSC001,DSC002 etc... Other than that you can see a miniscule thumbnail which is pretty much useless.

Give us a choice to see either large thumbnails or file lists.
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Solution #2: Add a slider
Written by gforster the 19 May 09 at 23:54.
If there were a slider at the bottome of all filebrowser windows (inclduding those in the web brower), one could choose the size of the thumbnails quite easily. The slider would act like the one in OpenOfffice.org Writer. Either way, the one-thumbnail-at-a-time is almost useless.

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Merge refresh and stop buttons in Firefox  
Written by sandrex the 14 Feb 10 at 01:57. In development
Refresh and stop buttons has been using too much space in Firefox.
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Selected solution (#1): Merge refresh and stop buttons in Firefox
Written by sandrex the 14 Feb 10 at 01:57.
I think Firefox would look better off merging the refresh and stop buttons.

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Firefox notifications should show up with system OSD  
Written by drinkypoo the 17 Apr 09 at 16:39. Implemented
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?)
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Selected solution (#1): Use the Ubuntu Firefox extension
Written by drinkypoo the 17 Apr 09 at 16:39.
Ubuntu already has a Firefox extension. Make it send notifications to the system notification daemon.
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Selected solution (#3): Firefox Upstream should use Notifications by Default
Written by abhishek.mukher.g the 27 Apr 09 at 19:27.
The popups that occur in Firefox, from my understanding, all go through the interface nsAlertService. If we have Mozilla properly play with Galago (the specification used by system OSD), just as they already do with Macintosh's Growl. All pop-ups will just magically work nicely.
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Selected solution (#4): Install Firefoxnotify by default.
Written by frandavid100 the 29 Apr 09 at 16:13.
This extension makes Firefox follow notify-osd style:

http://img.genbeta.com/2009/04/firefoxnotify.jpg
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Selected solution (#5): Use FreeDesktop.org standard
Written by yman the 7 Apr 10 at 02:31.
Rather than using an add-on that targets a specific notification system, use one that complies with the fd.o standard so that it will work properly with all starndard-compliant notification systems including KNotify and notify-OSD.
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Selected solution (#6): Implement for Chromium aswell
Written by Linus the 10 Apr 10 at 21:38.
As the title says, make this avaible for Chromium/Chrome users aswell.
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Selected solution (#7): Use idea #24130 solution #5
Written by alx321 the 11 Apr 10 at 09:15.
Create a daemon for all file transfers as proposed in http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24130/ solution #5 to show these notifications.

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Skin the help center  
Written by Maxime7101 the 2 May 09 at 21:19. New
I think that the help center is ugly, because it doesn't have a skin. So, maybe people could read the manual if it would be less repelent.
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Solution #1: Put the same skin that ubuntu.com
Written by Maxime7101 the 2 May 09 at 21:19.
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Solution #2: Welcome new users
Written by Maxime7101 the 2 May 09 at 21:40.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8074/

It could be great to display a welcome window the first time that the user install Ubuntu on his computer. This window could be a link to a tutorial.

This window would help the new users to connect to internet, install restricted drivers in order to enable compiz, and just to say : Thank you.

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- welcome
thanks you to have installed Ubuntu
- Take in hand Ubuntu (link to a tutorial)
- Connect to internet
- Material
- Add new users
About me
- Non free softwares ( Drivers & audio/video plugins)
- Enable compiz
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Solution #3: Add more screenshots of the software which the helpcenter is talking about
Written by Maxime7101 the 3 May 09 at 09:22.
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Solution #4: Link online video tutorials
Written by Maxime7101 the 3 May 09 at 11:33.
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I think a video explain better than words.

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print .pdf in just one page  
Written by Rodrigo the 12 Apr 09 at 17:08. New
I do a lot of offline navigation, and I print in pdf, to take with me.
when I try to print webs in .pdf they cut the web in pages, cutting sometimes images, tables.
I would like that to change.
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Solution #1: Offer the option to print as one page .pdf
Written by Rodrigo the 12 Apr 09 at 17:08.
Like old printers we should be able to print in a continuous page. That way the image, tables and the rest will not be cut.

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Use the 64-bit version of the Sun Java plugin for AMD64 architecture in 9.04  
Written by Ciprian.Enache the 11 Jan 09 at 07:39. Not an idea
The 64-bit Java Sun plug-in for Linux is currently available through the early access program, here: https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

It would be great to have this packaged for 9.04!
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #17195
Written by Ciprian.Enache the 11 Jan 09 at 07:39.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17195 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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