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Firefox sometimes gets a bad reputation for crashing or locking up when a plugin such as Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player causes the problem. Add code to Firefox (or write an extension) so that when a plugin misbehaves, a dialog is presented informing the user so that they can take corrective action (disabling the plugin) or filing a bug with the right party (this warning could be similar to the warning that appears when a JS script in a web page hogs too much CPU time. As a minimum it should identify that a plugin is to blame; better would be to inform the user of the plugin's name; best would be to provide an option to temporarily disable the plugin).
=== [[Buildbot and EC2]] ===
* References: Mic, Alix, Axel
=== [[Tinderbox front page improvements]] ===
* [http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html An example page using the data]
* [http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/tboxtest.html Another example page using the data]. (Requires a [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ recent Firefox 3 build])
=== [[Mozilla Source and Symbol Server]] ===
Create a source code server to work with Mozilla's current symbol server. This will allow users to do full debugs of nightly release builds with access to remote symbols and full source code.
=== [[CSS guide]] ===
Administration of the Mozilla cluster at Seneca.
=== [[ Improve Mozilla Application and Platform Documentation]] ===
Not enough is understood about the various communities and companies who develop with Mozilla, as opposed to those who work on the Mozilla code itself. A proper survey needs to be conducted in order to find out which APIs are being used and how, what is hard, what could be improved, etc. The Mozilla Platform Application Developers is interested in changing this. Their goal is to work with the Mozilla development community to survey, understand, and document the current state of the art. In this project you will work with the mozpad community to connect with projects/companies in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this information.
=== [[Localized Search in Firefox Search Box]] ===
References: http://blog.vlad1.com/archives/2007/08/10/151/
=== [[Full-Text History Search extension]] ===
Write an extension for Thunderbird that allows the user to start a slideshow preview of all images in the current message. The feature would work like this: when a mail arrives with pictures attached, a button or some other UI is added to the message that allows the slideshow to begin. When clicked, the images are shown one after the other, properly scaled to fit in the window. Consider using [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial Canvas] to do the custom graphics, and take a look at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/556 this existing Thunderbird extension] for ideas.
Speed up Mozilla's builds by letting them use MSVC with distcc on Windows.
=== [[Add support for more compilers to distcc]] ===
An earlier project added multi-compiler support to distcc, and then MSVC support. The framework is now in place to support even more compilers. Add support for another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something else.
=== [[Mozilla Metrics]] ===
This project focus is to building an extension that will enable Firefox to gather user metric data. Data would be collected on those who have the extension installed and have opted-in on metrics collecting. The collected data would then be transmitted to Mozilla servers for furthering processing. The data is intended to be public, and would be used to get a better understanding of how users interact Firefox.
=== [[Mozilla Metrics Server Collection]] ===
The Mozilla Metrics project is focused to collect different forms of metrics data from the Firefox browser. This project
proposes to recieve the data being sent from the Metrics extension and then store them within a database which can be used
in the future. The type of data gathered by the Metrics extension includes profile data (non-identifiable), UI interaction,
installed plugins, bookmarks, etc.
=== [[Bug Triage Extension|Buggy Bar - Bug Triage Extension]] ===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Debugging Delta debugging] is an automated approach to debugging that isolates failures systematically. Given a failing test that can be mechanically verified (including a browser crash), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Debugging delta debugging] is a way of automatically isolating the change that introduced the failure. Having a framework in place to pull builds from CVS, bisect by date and change set (using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_CVS_code_management_system bonsai ] data -- remember, CVS doesn't have changesets!), and report results would let computers make developers more productive.
=== [[Desktop Social Networking Integration]] ===
Alter [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/The_Coop The Coop] experimental extension so it uses generic API instead of Facebook specifically; put the generic API in the "desktop data engine" also used by [http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Sidebar BigBoard] (and hopefully other desktop apps in the future). Resources: RH online desktop team.
=== [[D-Bus and other Linux desktop integration improvements]] ===
Reference: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216827 Bug 216827], [http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/09/13/talkback_to_be_replaced_by_airbag/?from=rss-category here], and [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2006-09-12/deploying-the-airbag/ here]
=== [[Radio Button Bookmarks Extension]] ===
Create an extension to provide [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/f2eeb10d0436af3f radio-button style bookmarks].
=== [[Calendar stuff]] ===
Mozilla is in the process of finalizing a set of Linux library and runtime requirements for distributions wanting to ship Mozilla software. This project will test various bugs against two different sets of runtime setups, hoping to expose any issues with the new requirements.
=== [[Testing of Canadian Banking and Financial Sites in Mozilla]] ===
This project will focus on improving the user experience at banking and other financial sites for Canadian Mozilla users. This includes determining which sites are relevant, insuring proper behavior for Firefox 3 on these sites, etc.
References: http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293
=== [[Automated Testing]] ===
Programmatically driving the browser to perform human-like tasks repeatedly. The programmer will have to create a framework for driving browser components in JavaScript or other scripting language to repeatedly test various pieces of the application. Ideally, the successful completion of this task will see a test or suite of tests that can be invoked by command line to start the browser, run the test suites and then exit and record the results for display or analysis.
Reference: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team. See also http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/09/coscripter/
