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Sure, Mozilla's cache does a great job of rememebering stuff you've already looked at. But wouldn't it be great if it could be engorging itself on stuff you're going to look at in the future, while you're otherwise occupied?
Is the Internet full of petty thieves and vicious pirates, preying upon the works of innocent authors with impunity? Probably not. But it probably is full of people who don't even know how to properly attribute the material they've quoted from online sources. Lans presents a solution.
Mozilla should include a Chat client. Not an IRC client, not an ICQ client, not an AOL Instant Messenger client: those are specific implementations. Mozilla should include a Chat client that speaks those, and more.
I get a lot of email. No, that's too deadpan: I get more email than god, and it's very difficult to deal with such a large body of information. In this essay I outline a plan for a project that attempts to address this problem. I've dubbed the project Intertwingle.
Bookmarks represent a huge untapped (previously untappable) source of tacit edorsement of the utility of a particular web resource. If we could harness this resource, we might be able to provide some very useful information.
Caching can be used as a more powerful tool than to simply speed up the reloading of documents that you've recently visited. In this essay Paul describes some ideas on how it could be used to provide a useful archive of visited pages.
404s are a pain in the neck and don't seem to be going away any time soon. In the following essay Paul discusses a few possibile situations where support from Mozilla could lend a helping hand to keeping the web from turning into a wasteland of dead end streets.
There are a multitude of sites on the Internet that require or provide registered user accounts. This coupled with the human tendency to be forgetful and a general knack for thinking up bad passwords makes an automated system for managing accounts and passwords direly needed. Ideas will be moved into these archives from the main page as they are replaced by newer (and maybe even better) ideas. So start thinking.
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