413669 - Ability to mark content within a website for reference

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Spike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10.6
Build Identifier: Enhancement Request

Enhancement Request

Reproducible: Always

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I would like to propose the development of a method for users to mark content within a website for reference. I envision this functionality resides in a GUI window under the tab, but above the website content. A user could select a tool to from the GUI to make a selection from within the website content and then use a menu from within the GUI to define a meaning for the selected content. For example, the user could click on a "make selection" tool and then marquee select a few sentences of text from within a website. The marquee selection creates a "highlight" over the selected web content. The user then would be able to choose the selection type such as "Personal" and make notes about the selected content and choose from certain "color-keys" which help them identify the type of reference they've made (ex: Personal - "Send this to uncle Rob", etc.). As well as specific comments about marked content, general website notes could be made within the GUI area. This would be helpful when comparing products from several online vendors (ex: "This site offers the lowest price, but does not give me the free incentive").

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.