Friday, November 26, 2004

the extensions GUI mess

Ok. I so we use some firefox extensions, those of our choice, and thats great. But to tell you the truth i find a little annoying not to know where did those 'hide' its configuration UI and the new options interfering in the firefox menus.

I'm not saying an extension should not have a Settings UI or it's own menus. Those are needed for sure and must be created somewhere, i just would like to 'know' where to find them.

In the Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Roadmap you can find one of the goals:

  • Enhancements to the Extensions system, Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search and other areas.

Yeah!, and i think i have an idea for this: wouldn't it be real nice to the settings of all your extensions all in one place.? It could be a tabbed interface or even something like the regular Settings dialog with a 'page' for each extension.

other options are:

  • Tools->Preferences->Extensions.
  • Tools->Extensions, and a Configure|Settings option in the context menu.

This would ease extension management and help to cut down menu bloat.

and sure there are better ideas out there so... lets get into the Firefox 2.0 roadmap

Friday, November 12, 2004

firefox more evil than god

As seen on msn search engine the fist hit for more evil than god goes to firefox.
It reminds me "the evil wars"... and i'll quote here that fine article. So here's the deal -- a post on Memepool back in October noted that if you searched for "more evil than satan himself" on Google, the Microsoft home page was listed first
maybe thats the reason that makes google the 4th entry in those results.