Firefox3 Intelligent Search Location Box
The smart web location box in Firefox3 will be much more useful when it takes advantage of the stats it has to hand. This is essentially a development of the idea I posted back in 2004 Technique to Facilitate Intelligent Functionality Tailored to Each User. I see the Search box as dupicating space, the browser should really have a single "Location search box". When the addresses in the bar start with http:// then they are URLs, when they are keywords separated by spaces they should be treated as a search query.
One other thing I would love to see is a "Save page" (snapshot) button which just grabbed all the content and stored it in an HTML WebDoc archive, these could be recalled later from a history. A prime use of this would be when I have booked my flights, but my email confirmation has not arrived yet.. I need to either print the web-page.. or hang-on and keep the page open until an email confirmation is processed so I don't use track of the confirmation reference.
These archived pages are static (the generated HTML layout) in that they can't be modified, they can be printed or forwarded as emails in their format as they appeared when the snapshot was taken with the click of the "Save page" button.
In the future, when the off-line file-store, email inbox/sent/drafts and online storage of documents is eventually unified... these snapshots of pages would show up as "Easyjet.com Flight booking -- saved 15 May 2008" in the "Saved" folder. So we can return to the archived pages for future reference should the airline loose track of our tickets! It will even be possible to forward them as the archive Easyjet_Flights.webdoc file I am sure ;)