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Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

Jon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:45:11 GMT

Hey all,

Happy June and welcome to another edition of our Monthly Recap—not to be confused with our Weekly Recap (which we publish every Friday).

This post will highlight the top 15 most-voted ideas for the previous month. While some are ‘new ideas’ and others may already be ‘in development’ (learn more about The Idea Journey here), we encourage you to continue voting and sharing your feedback—the more details, the better. Our teams are regularly looking at ideas and threads here as they plan and prioritize future roadmaps.

Without further ado, here they are…

(now 'In development' - learn more here)

And that's it for the month of May.

Want to show your support for one (or more) of the ideas above? Click on the idea link, give it kudos, and add your insights.

Is there another idea here on Connect that you think deserves more attention? Tag it in the comment section below. Sometimes a little extra visibility helps!

Or do you have the next great idea for a new feature/feature enhancement/brand new product/you name it? Submit it right here 💡

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

Crusader_Nejaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:36:33 GMT

Genuinely hoping we can have the option to use the old tab viewer and 3 dot menu again in the near future

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

fed-up — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:20:14 GMT

Agreed! This has been a common complaint for a while. It would be nice if we had some kind of response from Mozilla. Even a quick "We're working on it" or "We're not doing that" so we know whether or not to expect anything.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

WhyMustIDoThis — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:09:36 GMT

Same here. The old menu should be the default with the new one being only for those who opt-in. All of the changes to the UI compared to what we had before are huge steps backward, but this one is by far the worst. Fixing this one thing would go a long way towards stopping me from shopping around for other mobile browsers.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

breakingspell — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:35:43 GMT

At the moment the redesigned mobile Tab and Menu UX is the sole issue I have with Firefox, across both mobile and desktop!

It's a shame that this new UX and the removal of the old Secret Settings has already poisoned every single downstream fork of Fenix:

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/work_items/165
https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/bugs/issues/259
https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox-android/issues/206
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/issues/1017

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

WaggleDance — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:22:16 GMT

I suspect that Mozilla is choosing, for suspiciously secreted reasons, to ignore the hundreds of complaints on this single, significant, easily resolvable issue.

What IS that reason and why is Mozilla diverging so hard from the open source ethos (open decision making, user involvement and collective, bottom-up design) here? I'm heartily disappointed, and moreover, continue to be thwarted everyday by my browser of choice.

Sunken costs fallacy and/or obstinate egos perhaps?

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

PlastFace — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:02:27 GMT

Agreed as well. The old Android menu was efficient and way more ergonomic than the new one. And yes, even if I move the toolbar down, the vast majority of websites have upper settings/toolbars, so it will always require a lot of movements.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

Antares — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:44:52 GMT

Absolutely. The new menu especially is a disaster of usability and accessability both.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

vofyizakku — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:08:52 GMT

The new menu and tab viewer are very unpleasant, and I would like to see the old ones back.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

Crusader_Nejaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:57:27 GMT

This is genuinely disappointing. The fact that you can't even get a fork that has the old UI because of this change is frustrating to no end

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

breakingspell — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:11:29 GMT

If the folks behind this UX hadn't proactively removed the old code at their earliest convenience, the forks could have continued to maintain it much easier.

There's likely not a single dev who would be willing to reverse the removals, particularly with how much has changed since.

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

Crusader_Nejaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:21:40 GMT

This **bleep**ing sucks dude. Why are these tech companies, especially the smaller ones, so averse to allowing for options?

Re: Mozilla Connect Monthly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas for May 2026

breakingspell — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:40:26 GMT

Are you listening @Jon? Can we get any response or confirmation regarding the ruined Android/Mobile UX?

It seems to me that none of our direct feedback on this Connect forum makes any bit of difference, and that the designers are working in an echo chamber eating their own dog food. They'll never even know their product is reviled by the ones that actually use it.

The new Android/mobile UX is inaccessible, hard stop. Nobody has three hands to operate their phone with. It doesn't matter at all that these components were ported to Compose/Jetpack. The choice was made to change the design, instead of porting the layout 1:1.