Feedback welcome for New Tab widgets, now available via Firefox Labs

[AmberMeryman]

Hi! I’m Amber from the Firefox team.

We’re testing a new idea: simple, built-in productivity widgets on your New Tab page. They’ll be there on every new tab to keep you on-task, or on a break. (Previously available in Nightly & Beta, they are now available in Firefox Labs in Release!)

This early experiment includes:
✅ Lists - jot down your reminders, errands, or priorities for your browsing activities
⏰ Focus Timer - track your study session, deep work research, or quiet break time

And everything stays local, is never shared with Mozilla, and it’s easy to turn on and off.

Feedback is welcome to inform our next steps! Would you like to see more widgets? Which ones? Notes, Quotes, fun ones or helpful ones? Sync for optional backup? Drop your thoughts below.

- Amber & the Firefox team

[Vincent]

Is this in every country? I'm on Firefox 144.0, and only see the following two entries in Labs:

• Address Bar: show results during IME composition
• Picture-in-Picture: auto-open on tab switch

[AmberMeryman]

This should be in every country! I believe you must re-start the browser so that you can see them in Labs? Please let us know if you're still not seeing them after that.

[Vincent]

Just did and am still not seeing them. Which I guess makes this a potential bug, so I reported it here to avoid distracting from actual input in this Connect thread.

[myspace]

To do lists is a good one! Other widgets I'd like to see: 

• Daily quotes
• Word of the day. Would be good for language learning. 
• Sports scores for my favorite teams

[AmberMeryman]

Great suggestions!

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[Reitei17]

how about make the todo list bigger. like a days planner. im not sure how big or make it per week first. so i can fill in my daily plans for a week. The daily plan have the next and previous button to see what i done and what tomorrow's plan too. Whats in the daily plan? Can give day, time, the plan, checklist (either tick for success and x for not completing it). Most important part, sync between mobile and pc.

[AmberMeryman]

Thanks for the feedback! Are you thinking longer, or being able to resize it even larger?

[Reitei17]

sure can be resize larger to show full week plan and resize small to just a day plan show complete day, time, plan and checklist. with prev and next button.

[mrsimon0007]

Nice update, Amber! The lists and timer are super handy. I’d love to see quick notes, quotes, or a small Pomodoro timer next. Keeping it local and private is a great move!

[flickharrison]

PLEASE just let me set the new tab page to show only my chosen bookmarks.

Mixing bookmarks with history as Shortcuts kills my focus. This is an accessibility issue, as an ADHD person I need to eliminate distractions; seeing a bunch of stuff I looked at yesterday instead of my key bookmarked sites is annoying and distracting.

In fact, I just realized how they work the other day as I was trying to delete a site from Shortcuts and it kept popping back up - because each Shortcut seemed to be a specific *page* from that site, as I deleted one, Firefox “helpfully” added a different page somewhere else in the shortcuts list. It’s like whack-a-mole in there.

It goes hand-in-hand with the search bar; I can either turn off history completely or have Firefox suggest a dozen or so history matches above my bookmarks match. So either I can’t search the history at all or it’s constantly in my way!

Why are bookmarks treated like lepers? Why is it such a priority for Mozilla to prevent bookmarks from having centre stage?

Is there some majority of users who never want to go to their bookmarks but almost always want to see the multiple pages from the site they were on two days ago?

/TEDrant

[AmberMeryman]

That's an interesting widget idea - easier access to bookmarks!

Have you tested the sidebar, which can include Bookmarks? That might be a good way to get easy, customizable access to them!

[Liz4rd]

I find the timer really useful. Would be cool if it could be shown somewhere in the sidebar or something so that you could keep an eye on how much time is left without needing to open a new tab. 

[AmberMeryman]

I will pass that along!

Would it be more or less useful if we could somehow get the time remaining in the tab name? Would that be too distracting?

[LeeMorgan]

It would be great if the lists persisted after restarting Firefox or PC. Unless i am missing something?

[AmberMeryman]

They definitely should persist! We have had some reports that they weren't, however. 

Are you on the standard (Release) of Firefox?

[LeeMorgan]

Hi Amber,

Yes I'm using a standard release V144 on Windows 11 25H2.

Regards, Lee