222796 - META outsource some Firebird and Seamonkey features to "Standard Extensions"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214269

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Bug 216501 made me think of this and I guarantee others have thought about it
too. Bug 216501 is about making a pane in preferences about associations. Some
people didn't want the extra UI. My idea for compromise was "Standard
Extensions" Mozilla can provide that aren't installed automatically but are
distributed on FTP for users that want them. This would be one other way to
solve UI quibbles on things that don't fit into the Firebird charter. It could
apply to Seamonkey too, and some of our features in Seamonkey that are not in
Firebird could be repackaged into extensions for both.

These extensions would be supported by Mozilla.org.

Some examples:

- Web Development Extension (JS Console, DOM Inspector, ...)
- Advanced Preferences Extension (Manual changing of hidden prefs (like
about:config, extra preferences, ...)
- View Source extension
- Associations Modification Extension Windows
- Associations Modification Extension X-Windows (Gnome, KDE, etc)

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Standard extensions would be montained by Mozilla.org, and would be (unlike the
3rd party extensions) listed on a page on the Mozilla site: bug 232845

bug 232846 - Create standard web development extension for Firebird (DOM  
             Inspector, Javascript Console, and Venkman)

bug 232849 - View Source can be outsourced to an extension

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214269 ***

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Removing dependencies. V.