Mozilla Connect

Smart Window expands to France, with Mistral as a new model option

Hi everyone! Following last month’s updates, we have more Smart Window news: Smart Window Beta is now available in France, with French-language support, and we’re introducing Mistral Small 4 as a new recommended AI model. Mozilla and Mistral’s partne...

Sidebar / Vertical tabs: Option to Keep Vertical Tabs Visible in Full-Screen Mode

SummaryAdd a setting or flag that allows the vertical tabs sidebar to remain visible while Firefox is in full-screen mode on a Desktop.BackgroundPreviously, when using Firefox with vertical tabs, entering full-screen mode would keep the vertical tabs...

Introducing Firefox’s Built-in VPN: IP protection, now in the browser

Hello everyone, Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Firefox’s free built-in VPN Beta, a new privacy feature that hides your IP address while browsing in Firefox. When you browse the web, your IP address is typically visible to the websites...

How can I backup IMAP emails while preserving their attachments?

I need to archive a large IMAP mailbox, but one concern is making sure that attachments remain accessible after the backup. The mailbox contains emails with documents, spreadsheets, images, and other files distributed across several folders.Is there ...

Why are users allowed to post unchecked web links in Connect threads?

On the Mozilla Support site, a web link would need moderator approval before the post appears (unless if the user is linking to a whitelisted site). So I was wondering why, on Connect, can users post site links with seemingly no pre-checks? Any user ...

Support ISO 21496-1, the HDR over JPG standard via Gain Map with SDR fallback. Apple/Google support

Apple and Google have cooperatively agreed to support ISO 21496-1, the HDR over JPG standard using Gain Maps, with SDR fallback if the monitor is SDR and/or the software only supports JPG. Apple calls ISO 21496-1 "Adaptive HDR". ISO 21496-1 is alread...

Allow users to report the spam bots clogging up this website.

I posted a discussion and the four comments i got in response were all clearly ai written spam trying to hawk their dumb products. It's extremely concerning that these bots are just running loose on this website and there's nothing I as a user can do...

Add color-blind-safe syntax highlighting themes to DevTools

DevTools has an excellent built-in accessibility panel (contrast checker, vision deficiency simulation) for inspecting web pages — but the DevTools UI itself doesn't offer color-blind-safe syntax theme options for its own JSON/console output. Adding ...

Separate taskbar icons for Firefox profiles on Windows

Firefox profiles have gotten a lot better, but one thing that still feels missing is taskbar separation between profiles.In Chrome, when you open a different profile, it gets its own taskbar icon and application identity. This makes it very easy to s...

How to Stop Automatic Updates to Firefox

There must be some way built in to the program to stop automatic updates to Firefox. On or about 7, or 8, or 9 July 2023 Firefox automatically updated (I think it was to version 115) and as a result it no longer works. I simply can't get it to run. T...