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Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:17:07 GMT

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Justine, a product manager on the Firefox Desktop team! It's been a while since we last reached out for your invaluable feedback on the homepage, and as part of our effort to develop and enhance the experience, I wanted to open a new thread to hear your thoughts, ideas, and pain points.

Here are some questions we'd love to get your feedback on:

How do you feel about the default homepage, and what improvements would enhance it for you?
What, if any, type of content would you be interested in seeing on the homepage?
Is there something on another browser's homepage that you wish Firefox had as well?
Do you use third-party websites or extensions as your homepage? If so, what motivates your choice?

Your sentiments, suggestions, and insights are important to us. Whether it's a simple thought or a detailed message, we'd love to hear your from you!

If you are a MOBILE user and would like to provide feedback on that experience, please do so in this thread: Mobile Homepage Experience - Thread

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

naina — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 02:48:08 GMT

Hello Justine, it's fantastic to see the Firefox Desktop team actively seeking user feedback for homepage enhancements. The default homepage offers familiarity, but improving its personalization options could enhance the experience. Introducing customizable widgets for news, weather, or bookmarks could cater to diverse user preferences. Observing elements from other browsers, like speed dials or quick access to frequently visited sites, might be valuable. Many users choose third-party websites or extensions as their homepage for specialised content or productivity tools. Enriching the default homepage with these functionalities could reduce reliance on external options. Your proactive engagement with users underscores Firefox's commitment to user-eccentric development.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

T9 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:12:48 GMT

I like it already. Add wallpapers with a toggle to turn them off when required.
Get the best wallpapers from unsplash.com for new tabs because I hate to set wallpapers after a while. Make it a toggle to turn them off. Many times I disable data-consuming features to save my bandwidth. This applies to mobile as well.
Brave browser has this feature which I am talking about.
This addon (Tabliss) also gets wallpapers from Unsplash.com. I have stopped using this addon as it is buggy.

Please release early features into the nightly channel whether they make it to the stable release or not. Nightly has no exciting features. It is boring.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Synchro — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:01:09 GMT

Thank you for asking.

1. I would like to have a "+" button to pin a new site on the homepage. Now, for this purpose I have to edit one of the last frequently used pages: at first I pin it, then edit its URL and name. Also it would be great to have an option to hide this button through the "gear" menu when I don't need it.

2. I would like to have more characters to be shown in a pinned site name. Now, for me this number is just 9-10, and sometimes this is no enough.

3. Now I can change only a number of rows of pinned sites, but not a number of columnes. I think it would be more convenient to pick both parameters of a grid: 2x5, 2x10, 4x10, 8x8 etc. This would help me to organise my homepage: 1st row is for social medias, 2nd row is for sport news, 3rd row is for local news.

I don't use any extensions for my homepage as I rely on a standart browser kit. I believe that Firefox provides good privacy and would like to see it just more flexible and customizable.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:19:36 GMT

Hi @naina,

This is such great feedback, we really appreciate it and are taking notes! If you think of anything else, feel free to let us know.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:23:13 GMT

Thank you for the feedback, it has been noted! We definitely hear this community's desire for wallpapers and it is being discussed 😊

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:27:47 GMT

Thanks for the feedback @Synchro

As we continue talking about how to tailor the page to each person, this is the type of feedback we really look forward to!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

nickvalery — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:59:42 GMT

Please provide a way of permanently removing the new tab ribbon beneath the menu bar. If this can't be done, please let me know how to roll-back to Version 115 or earlier.

I've been a loyal supporter of Mozaic/Mozilla since long before it was called Firefox. Don't make me switch at this late stage to Chrome/Chromium or (Heaven forbid!) NS Edge....

Nick

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:52:30 GMT

Hi Nick,

Are you referring to the bookmark section under the address bar? If so, you can right-click on it, hover on "Bookmark toolbar", and select "Never Show". I'll attach a screenshot below.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

FireFan11423x — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:49:18 GMT

1. I like it, it's minimalist. But I don't really like how the shortcuts to the websites look, since I feel they are very small and have those gray colors around them, I wish they were a little bigger and didn't have those gray lines on the sides.

2. I think not, I'm not a big fan of browsers (mobile/pc) having their home page oversaturated.

3. Opera browser, on the home page you can put a variety of colors and customizable wallpapers.

4. No.

Image #1

Regards, Justine!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

T9 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:08:20 GMT

I forgot to mention one more thing. Please do not show NSFW websites in shortcuts on the home screen (in Firefox Android.)

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

tspoon765 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:08:35 GMT

I have a (crazy) suggestion, which is that Firefox settings actually work as advertised.

In my settings I selected to use a webpage as my homepage. Then I selected to have a blank page when opening a new tab. Then I changed my mind and selected Firefox home page again for new tabs. Then I deselected the web page for home page and reselected Firefox home page. Now it still loads a blank page and there's no way obvious to change it.

A further example is the setting to not jump to a new tab when opening from a bookmark. Which doesn't work. You go out on the internet, some clever person has told a bunch of stuff in about:config you can change. Which still doesn't work (Also - why should I?).

Why can't basic settings just work?

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:24:17 GMT

Hi @tspoon765

Thank you for the feedback. I agree that your settings should be easy and intuitive to use. I have a couple of questions:

1. What prompted you to change your homepage initially? And what prompted you to change the new tab page to 'blank'?

2. What prompted you to change it back to the default settings?

3. In settings, does it indicate that your New Tab page is set to a blank page? Or is it set to Firefox Home, but it opens blank pages anyway?

Thank you!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

sujit_pal — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:39:12 GMT

Please split "Sites you save and visit" into two options: "Sites you save" and "Sites you visit". Many of us do not want visited sites to come up in Shortcuts. It will make homepage look clean. This is available in Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi and many other prominent browsers too. I hope you will implement this very soon. I have attached a screenshot.
Please up vote this idea. Thank you.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

MrZipp — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:31:15 GMT

Hi Justine - as an age old Firefox user, I'm probably one of the fewer (sounds like), that prefer a blank home page and also a blank new tab. I know you work hard on the project, but I want you to know that at least one of us prefer a clean home page. Thanks so much for your work and interest in our likings

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:39:33 GMT

I want to be able to choose the exact number of shortcuts that appear on the home screen. At the moment, unused shortcuts are filled with pages from my browsing history, which bothers me quite a lot.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

rico1 — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:51:02 GMT

This is a very good idea. Firefox developers should implement this.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

rico1 — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:52:17 GMT

Yes, I want it too. I hope developers will take it seriously.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

BelFox — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:17:43 GMT

Hi Justine,

Firefox allows you to generate a thumbnail for your pinned websites, which I think is really cool. You enter the URL and voila ... an image (if hyperlink to jpg/png) or screenshot (if hyperlink to website) is retrieved and stored.

The only thing is ... with the latest redesign of the New Tab Page, these screenshots/images are cramped into the tiny white squares (80x80), making them barely readable.

Maybe a more flexible grid could be offered (think of the tiles in the Windows 8 Start Menu), where you can choose to increase the size of the rectangles containing screenshots (Small, Medium, Large ...). Users could even make a combination of small and larger tiles. Larger tiles could also contain other content.

Being able to choose different backgrounds (solid color using a color picker, own photo through file picker or wallpaper from gallery) would be my no. 1 request though.

Thanks for listening!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Himraj — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:48:16 GMT

I like the simplicity of the homepage it's great but it will be even look better if we can set background wallpaper just like chrome. Simple like now but with background wallpaper. And one more thing the Firefox logo should stay on top of it because the logo makes it look like Firefox.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Himraj — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:01:47 GMT

Hey I like the look of the Firefox in your screenshot, I want to make my Firefox look like this.

How can I do this man. Please tell me.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

CBSDnL — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:31:09 GMT

Turn off the RED X on each tab - the old X was just fine. (If this is the right tread to complain.)

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Himraj — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:45:52 GMT

-infinity kudos from me

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Rhonda1 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:47:26 GMT

Hello Justine. This is probably not the correct forum, but I have a problem with Firefox. I share a lot of things to Facebook. For a long time on different computers all running Ubuntu 22.04.03 LTS, when the share window pops up, if it is not a complete window covering the whole screen, it immediately begins to dance to the left side as far as it can. It stops when it gets there. Irritating. I have not figured out a way to make the pop up window automatically be full screen. Or perhaps full screen is the default setting but once you downsize it, you can't get back to the default.

Thank you and my best regards to you.

P.S. Firefox has been my default since at least the early 90's, I think.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Tones48 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:56:56 GMT

Hi,

Love the new look!! Looks smarter, cleaner, less busy but more relevant!!

I use English and New Zealand dictionaries, not much else.

PS - Sorry, I was carried away. I was referring to ThunderBird, not FireFox. DUH!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

agoodale — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:18:04 GMT

Justine, this is sort of homepage related as it pertains to what I want when Firefox starts. If this is not your area, PLEASE pass it on appropriately.

Currently I have 3 windows open with 68, 109 and 27 tabs respectively. This is heavy on the memory and processing power of the PC. I would like to have a greater number of smaller windows, and only open the windows that I need at any specific time. To do this I would need to be able to name a window when I close it, and a means to open only the window(s) that I want, when I want them. Firefox has for a long time saved the contents of ALL windows when I choose EXIT, rather than CLOSE, and then opens ALL windows when I restart. It would seem to be a simple task to allow me to name these windows upon closure, and to choose which ones I want to open the next time. This would greatly improve my PC's memory and CPU use, improve system stability overall, and greatly help me to organize my browsing sessions according to the selected tasks at hand.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

eastbigwood — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:19:53 GMT

after the latest update the function of dragging by mouse to open a new tag is dissapeared that makes annoying and lack of conviniences obviously , could you please turn it back ?

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

worewarewix — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:10:51 GMT

Thank you for laying this out! This is incredibly insightful and I'm making note of them to bring back to the team.

We really appreciate you taking the time to detail your feedback and we're committed to improving mobile's user experience!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

ytyyt1 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:10:57 GMT

in other browsers (such as Chrome),Themes can include new tab backgrounds. Is it possible that a future update include this?

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

LMP — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:37:46 GMT

The new design has worsen some of the user experience. But I think a lot of people already mentioned this and didn't like the change as soon as the design was changed. When you have multiple tabs open it's so difficult now to find what tab has an active video playing on it... this was not an issue before. I'm constantly trying to locate the tab now.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

LMP — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:41:47 GMT

Also, a friend of mine is a senior developer and he mentioned that it makes no sense that FF is running massive memory on tabs that are not active. In fact, even if I only have one tab active and others are fully closed but sit in potential reload position, the Task Manager shows many tabs running in the background that are not even active or open... I also don't understand when I have ALL tabs closed, no reload tabs waiting in the background, and I open ONE tab - Task Manager will soon show as if 12, 15, 20 tabs are running and you only have one single tab.

FF is a massive CPU and memory hawk and people have pointed this out for so many years yet nothing is ever done to improve on it.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:46:20 GMT

It's definitely possible! And it's a request we are very aware of and have at the forefront of our minds.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:48:05 GMT

Thanks for the feedback! It has been noted a few times and I've added it to our backlog

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:49:43 GMT

Thank you for this feedback! Its been noted 😊

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

ytyyt1 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:36:33 GMT

Awesome. It would be great if we could download themes with matching images directly from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/themes/ .Thank you for considering this suggestion!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

old-guy — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:04:36 GMT

Thunderbird is a great product that I've been using I guess since Eudora turned to crap. I've never commented on past changes because I'm one of the many who never get around to contributing.

I like being able to view more incoming e-mail subject lines. That's useful.

Highlighting the number of number of unread e-mails in each folder is ridiculous! It hits me in the head like a 2x4 when I just glance at the page. Message counts now are the single most visible item on the screen. (I know I have tens of thousands of e-mails, but I wouldn't have that many if there were good automatic archiving and message cleanup tools.)

While I'm at it, please bring back the dropdown get-message account selection. Now I have to click twice to get messages from any account I'm not in at that moment.

Thanks very much for all your hard work!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Piestor — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:38:56 GMT

Gentilissima Justine, premettendo che non ho molta conoscenza e praticità nell'utilizzo di Thunderbird ed è la prima volta che scrivo, desidero esprimere il mio più vivo disappunto per le modifiche apportate nell'ultima versione. Per quanto mi riguarda hanno reso molto più complicata la semplicità della sua gestione. Capisco che bisogna sempre migliorare, ma peggiorare no.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

CubeOfCheese — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:43:04 GMT

I would like to be able to put the shortcut links into a grid. Really it would be cool to be able to put them anywhere on the page similar to android home page app grid. It's not a big deal but I think it would be nice.

Also I would like the option to access them with keyboard shortcuts if that's not already a thing

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

bev — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:27:34 GMT

Please leave Firefox alone. Note what happened with TB 115. It's a disaster. Leave it all alone. You reach a point where its perfect and you cannot improve. Why do you try? Been using these 2 programs for years and love them until new "updates" come and its all revamped.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Andrewjosh — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:39:02 GMT

it's fantastic to see the Firefox Desktop team actively seeking user feedback for homepage enhancements. The default homepage offers familiarity, but improving its personalization pfannenset mit abnehmbaren griff could enhance the experience. Introducing customizable widgets for news, weather, or bookmarks could cater to diverse user preferences. Observing elements from other browsers, like speed dials or quick access to frequently visited sites, might be valuable. Many users choose third-party websites or extensions as their homepage for specialised content or productivity tools. Enriching the default homepage with these functionalities could reduce reliance on external options. Your proactive engagement with users underscores Firefox's commitment to user-eccentric development.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

MrZipp — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:17:50 GMT

I see what others are looking for. Please remember, though, that some of us PREFER a BLANK page with customized tabs. And nothing else is really needed. As long as this remains an option, I support all of the great suggestions that appeal to the large legion of Happy Firefoxers!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Meldrew — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:48:41 GMT

Frankly, I don't like it. It all looks too cramped on my screen although it leaves a large space at the bottom. Maybe other people will view it differently. It also screwed up my downloading of one of my email addresses that required the password again and I couldn't remember it. Hopefully I have over come that now, but it seems like it was not fully beta-tested before its release. I don't know yet what other features you have included, but I was quite happy with the system before and didn't request this upgrade. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' comes to mind.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

PAR — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:04:41 GMT

Thank you for your invitation to comment.

I confess I do not entirely like the new Thunderbird home page. The previous version was perfectly acceptable and adequate, so why change it? I had no choice, since it appeared unannounced after a recent software update. The two items I most dislike visually are the fixed search header bar that appears automatically as an over-prominent white rectangle and that horrid little cloud 'get messages' symbol - a retrograde step.

I appreciate the desire/need periodically for new features, especially to improve functionality, but mere cosmetic tweaks can be distractive and unwelcome and can easily appear as 'change for change's sake' without any obvious user benefit. Sometimes simplicity and ease of use can instead be compromised. As not everyone likes or wants new features, perhaps the standard approach with updates should always be to offer an option to toggle them on/off or revert to an earlier version.

PS: I can't find how to stop messages being sorted into threads - a useful feature for some, but, again, not always for everyone or all the time.

Thank you.

PaulR

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

uggcantstandit — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:51:14 GMT

I think the homepage is very good.

I customized it by limiting it to 6 personalized shortcut icons under the search bar which frankly I never use. Firefox adds 2 new ones based on my browsing history. I wish they wouldn't do that.

These icons for me are needless clutter as I have a nicely organized series of bookmarks that I have placed on the sidebar, which opens up on the homepage and all new tabs.

I also like the ability to change the color of the Homepage to dark because I don't want bright lights at night. My sidebar Bookmarks toolbar however remains bright white. I wish I could make its background dark as well.

The only extra I wouldn't mind having is a weather widget- say a 7 day forecast for my area.

Thank you! I love Firefox and love the primary password feature. I read various opinions that the primary password isn't secure but I love it.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Kaoxt — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:11:27 GMT

I would like Firefox - Android to behave like iOS does or even Chrome - android for selecting links on homepage. It keeps the desired link you select on the same tab. For Firefox - Android it keeps opening a new tab. I'd love for this to be corrected.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

eastbigwood — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 04:52:04 GMT

suggestion： could you please add one more function that when we copy some words from website can choose to copy as plain text mode ?

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

VeganFox — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:06:34 GMT

It would be cool if it had a simple local RSS widget. It would be enough to just show titles and the site.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

VeganFox — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:08:10 GMT

It would also be nice if the Firefox logo could show with just the shortcuts, but without the search bar ( I like to show my Firefox pride 🙂 )

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Jon — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:50:38 GMT

Hey @PAR,

This thread is specifically for the Firefox home/"new tab" page.

But I'll be sure to share your feedback with the Thunderbird team.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

bev — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:02:59 GMT

I am reluctant to update my Firefox seeing what happened to Thunderbird 115 can I ask this forum is it safe? I can't deal with 2 issues if it is I will just postpone Firefox update which I have since seeing TB 115. Would appreciate feedback on the Firefox question. But for now no update for me.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:30:14 GMT

Appreciate your feedback, thank you!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:31:35 GMT

Allowing the page to be more customizable is definitely something we are interested in implementing. Thank you!

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:40:27 GMT

This is definitely a feature within our backlog and a popular request!

Thanks for the feedback. Hope to have an update for you in the near future 😊

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:05:56 GMT

Thank you for the feedback. I will make sure that this gets passed along to the appropriate product managers.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:08:13 GMT

I'll make sure I pass this feedback to the appropriate team 😊

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:09:19 GMT

Thank you for this feedback! Improving customization options are definitely a part of the future vision.

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:10:56 GMT

Thank you for detailing out what you currently are enjoying, as well as what you'd like to see. We have talked about bringing widgets to the homepage, so it's nice to hear the echoed here 😊

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:14:10 GMT

https://color.firefox.com/

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Justine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:30:11 GMT

Thank you to everyone for such an insightful conversation over the last two and a half months! I've logged each and every one of them, and have noted them or passed it to the appropriate team.

The two biggest takeaways from your feedback are:

A desire to have more ways to customize the homepage experience, including adding widgets, news feeds, and advanced shortcut options
Wallpapers and theme selection is a desired feature that you see on other browsers, and would like replicated for Firefox

We also had comments around:

Improvements to the settings
Accessibility
and branding!

I hope to continue this conversation as we add new features and provide a more tailored experience. Until then, just know that we value your ideas and opinions, and are looking to sharing more soon!

Best,

Justine

Re: Share Your Thoughts on the Home / "New Tab" Page! 🖥️ [thread 2]

Jon — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:43:24 GMT

Hey all,

Thanks so much for participating and sharing such valuable insights. We are closing out the thread but want to encourage you to continue sharing your feedback and ideas about the home/"New Tab" page (and others topics too) in new posts—just be sure to use the necessary labels and tags, so your posts are easily searched for and discovered by our teams.

Also, we are excited to announce that a new discussion hosted by a Firefox Product Manager has just kicked off and can be found here:

This will be an ongoing series here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we look forward to continuing to collaborate with you all 😀