290299 - Add What's Related to Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

I really found the old Netscape 4's What's Related button very useful. It opens
up a menu that lists related sites from Alexa's database.

I'm sure some people have privacy concerns, but these can be addressed in the
implementation, such as only sending information to Alexa when the user
specifically requests it (like sending a What's Related request, or specifically
enabling the oObserverService interface if they want to make the service better).

A simple request on demand to a url like
http://xslt.alexa.com/data?cli=17&url=%_content.location.href% should not really
be a privacy issue unless it is done without the user's consent.

I understand that this is possible as an extension, and indeed there are
extensions that add functionality like this, but it would be useful to have this
feature by default, since we already have third-party search engines in Firefox
anyway.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

bug 213236 mentions that the "What's Related"-sidebar was removed.

Alexa-links are available in the SearchStatus extension (among other things) :
<https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=mozilla&version=1.8&os=Windows&id=321>

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

You can use a bookmarklet or an extension to do this, but we're not bringing
this back as a core feature.

Comment 3

[Bamm Gabriana]

Jo, this request is for Firefox, the link you posted is not compatible with
Firefox, it is only for Mozilla.