109195 - [RFE] automatic mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[mike lima]

Why not to enhance mozilla enabling a calendar where users can set up events on
specific days/hours, etc., so when the date comes mozilla opens the page
specified?  Imagine one controlling several sites that he should visit each day
in sequence.  So users can establish periodically events (onde a month, a week,
etc... like CRONTAB) and mozilla will open the pages when date is reach.

Comment 1

[timeless]

um. bookmarks does something like this, but we have this wonderful calendar app,
so i'll ask them about it.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

This would be really neat.

Comment 3

[xyzzy]

The bookmark UI is currently set up to be able to schedule times to check for
updates and notify the user by changing the bookmark icon, displaying an alert
window, opening the page in a new window, or playing a sound.  Last I knew, it
was still somewhat broken.

This request is asking to do the open in a new page part, but unconditionally. 
I like this idea, but it would be nice to have preferences for how to deal with
events that have passed while Mozilla wasn't loaded (ignore, load on start?,
etc.).  It would also be cool if in addition to the crontab scheduling, there
was "floating" scheduling, scheduling events relative to one another to avoid
spikes in network traffic.

Comment 4

[Mike Potter]

I'm not going to do this.  Sending it to [e-mail] in case someone else
will take it.

Comment 5

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

should this still be under calendar..

Would be more akin to bookmarks people I would think, since calendar does not
necessarily have a navigator on it either...

(thunderbird, sunbird) for instance

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Hmm, a thought, if Mozilla Calendar is installed on Firefox or Suite, we may be
able to add in the alarms dialoge, "Open URL", meaning the URL as entered into
the event itself.

I'm not yet taking it though, comments?

Comment 7

[Georg Dembowski]

Hi,

I think it's just as reasonable for a bowser plugin as sending reminders via
email. Just using another internet service. 

I thought about some uses. 
- Imagine you want to fire a job on a remote web server, like backup or garbage
collection or the like. This RFE could help (call a certain URL with some
action-keyword as QueryString)
- Publish some events into a public event list which may be accessed for writing
only by using a www form. Sending the field info using URL query string makes
that very easy - you need no longer copy the data of all your regular or
irregular events by hand, but by Calendar.
- I experience some DNS troubles (Router "forgets" its DNS entries after a
while) so I've to repeat each URL several times - extremely nasty. Yea, such
sh** happens to some poor people... :-( That RFE would enable me to call few
important URLs once per hour so the router does not forget them. Sure, not _the_
killer app for the rfe ;o)

But as already written: It's just one extremly usual channel just like email.

just my 2 cents...

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This is nothing that we're going to do. This should be fixed in bookmarks code, if ever.

Comment 9

[Phoenix]

Interesting idea, but with Calendar folks don't want to implement this, it's chances somewhere near 0...

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

Yeah WONTFIX plus probably extension fodder.