Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

[jboscacci]

UPDATE: the AMA with Firefox Leadership is scheduled for Oct. 6th, 2025 at 10:30 PT (13:30 ET / 17:30 UTC / 19:30 CET) and will happen over on Reddit at r/firefox — check out the announcement post here for more details. 

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Hey Firefox friends! 👋

We’re trying something new and would love your help.

Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted. Your input has helped shape where Firefox is today, and we’re proud of what we’ve built together. We’re listening, we’ve been listening, and we’re excited to keep building a better browser together.

Starting now, we’re trying something new.

A series of quick check-ins  to hear where you’re at, what’s on your mind, and what you really want from Firefox. These surveys will help shape Firefox features and give you more direct ways to connect with the people building your favorite browser.

Just honest questions, and space for honest answers.

Help guide our next AMA with the Firefox team

We're thinking about how we engage with this community, and we’re planning a community AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Firefox product managers.

Let’s start with questions to help us plan the AMA, and a fun one at the end.

What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to ask the Firefox team?

Drop it in the comments! It might get answered during our upcoming AMA.

Which topics should we cover during the AMA?

(Some suggestions, or you can add your own below)

• New features (and why we pick them)
  
  
• Other: [tell us]

Which animal best represents your Firefox browsing style?

• 🐆 Cheetah – lightning fast
  
  
• 🦉 Owl – wise and methodical
  
  
• 🐿️ Squirrel – a total tab-hoarder
  
  
• 🐬 Dolphin – curious and always exploring
  
  
• 🧠 Other (tell us below!)
  
  

Thanks for being part of the Firefox journey 💜

[filipesaraiva]

Workspaces!!! 

[Jon]

@filipesaraiva thanks! We've seen this brought up a lot — in this thread and other threads here on Connect. Is there a particular way you'd like to see this implemented in Firefox? 

[leoroese]

What about a rebranding Mozilla Guarah, the golden dog (wolf) from Brazil 😉

[aoqi-miracle]

"Hello, I'd like to ask about your plans for improving Firefox in the four areas of privacy, compatibility, performance, and security. A feature highly requested by us users is **Workspaces = Tab Groups + Container Tabs**. This should be straightforward to implement, but the crucial aspect is the **interaction design** for this feature.

By the way, please also improve the Container Tabs feature. It's Firefox's unique capability, isn't it? Additionally, **keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures** would significantly boost efficiency.

Oh, and one more thing – it would be great to introduce an option for **auto-hiding the navigation bar and tab bar**, like in Zen Browser.

Thank you for your work and everyone's contributions to making the internet better. That's the Mozilla spirit!"

[kmwebb]

As a developer, my main issue is that Firefox seems to lag in supporting the latest CSS features. Resolving this should increase adoption of the browser.

I realize that this part of the code is in the rendering engine, but I think it is the most important problem.

[sbfr]

‌Thanks for reaching out to the community! My browsing style is a dolphin, but I'd like to bring it closer to an owl.

Firefox is largely intended for privacy-minded people, and security complements privacy. Therefore, I would currently appreciate if Firefox would prioritize security features that would put Firefox up with the likes of Chrome.

GrapheneOS has a section on web browsing security, and Firefox could learn a lot from that:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium

Thank you once again!

[Jon]

Thanks for the comment! We're going through all of them and seeing what trends emerge. Stay tuned for more info on the AMA 😃 

[leoroese]

Hi! I am software developer since 2003, and a long time ago, about 15 yrs I had this idea that could be a game changer for browsers at that time. As I was thinging about this topic(title), the idea just came back to my mind, I never saw such feature in a web-browser. Well, I will try to explain:

(forgive me for some possible grammar errors, I avoid to share some informations with 3rd party A.I. and online tools)

WEB BROWSER URL COMMUNICATOR

The basic idea is to provide a simple way users browsing the same url to connect each other in authenticated(identified) or anonymous way, being able to talk about the browsed content.

It may also can replace the need of 3rd party chat applications for organizations or individuals who own the domain property to communicate to their public. Domain owners may be identified as official accounts with some sign or badge.

Imagine the scenarios:

“You are accessing a news portal and you couldn’t understand certain parts of the article, or maybe you disagree with something, you will be able to open a chat window on the right corner of Firefox and read the message feed of other users current also accessing the same page as you, or even who are accessing the same website(domain). You may talk to an verified account of the domain or some random users and even open private conversations to an specific user.”

“You are an e-commerce owner and want to provide real-time additional information about your products or your business, with some tool like that integrated to the web-browser you can measure your audience and also communicate with possible buyers of your products and services”

It is not an easy task and require an expensive infrastructure to handle millions of users. This messages can be ephemeral, kept for a couple of yours on servers, but even so may be a huge amount of exchanged messages.

At first, the communicator can be very simple and handle limited text messages only, to solve a basic problem. In the future, to supply business and organizations additional communication needs, we can consider add features such emoji, link or media attachments. The real intent is to allow just the basic communication and if users want to extends their communication they simply can exchange 3rd party communication ID’ s, e-mail, etc.

Some Simple Rules

In order to keep the chat(feed) window readable and avoid a flood of messages from users, SPAM, Bots and other common moderation problems, we must stablish some basic rules to allow users to communicate in certain spaces with limited resources, and extend this communication capabilities on the private chat only.

1. Authenticated users is obligatory

That is needed, even users can opt to show as anonymous on the conversations, we must internally identify a user and be able to block/ban, in case of misbehavior according to policy and terms, or limit request rates to the chat API.

2. Realms

Initially, we must consider 3 realms that users can access and interact with. The “domain realm” (allrecipes.com), the “page realm” (allrecipes.com/meet-stick-of-butter-beef-11776167) or page user currently accessing, and the One-on-One chat “private realm”.

At the first, users are able to communicate to all other users accessing the domain. This real must limit user interactions in terms of frequency (messages per minute) and size (message characters). IT will avoid message flood and allow more users to rationally participate to the general domain conversations.

The second realm is also limited but the amount of messages can be increased.

And the third realm, a private chat users can open to one-on-one conversations can be unrestricted until the chat session is kept alive by some of the parts.

3. Restricted words

This is a basic automated moderation, we must implement words filter according to the user profile to keep minimum respect and conversation quality. The restriction enforcement may vary for each realm.

4. Text only

This is important to fulfill the initial objective (provide basic communication) and to avoid misuse of the tool. No SPAM, or fishing, send unappropriated images and virus through file sharing.

Content Rating maybe?

And a bonus idea is to explore the possibility of user rate (0-5 stars) this website(domain) or its content, or write a simple review.

There is a lot of things Web Browsers can do with capturing at real-time the URL information if users authorize to access this information. Off course this must be transparent and ethical, but when allowed by the users exclusive for such intentions, there will be no problem.

[VoMo]

Owl here, please improve Firefox security on Android! I love Firefox but android is the place where I would never use it, nor even other Firefox based browsers like Tor.  It’s just so far behind chromium (and desktop Firefox) security that it’s saddening:

1. Firefox still doesn’t have internal sandboxing on Android and does not use isolatedProcess

2. Firefox by default doesn’t use site isolation (fission), which is a very important security feature for a daily use browser.

Please these are important features for anyone with a modestly high threat model, and Firefox security directly impacts the security of Tor browser so working on sandboxing will massively improve the security of many android users, many of whom really need a secure browser.

[Ckraft]

I'm very concerned about July 2025 update 140.0.4 incorporating UDP. ISN'T UDP TOTALLY UNSECURED BROWSING WITH UPDATE 140.0.4 A HUGE DEPARTURE FOR MOZILLA? Focuses on expediency and speed with absolute disregard for privacy protections.  Having had the nightmare of my identity being stolen twice, I have gratefully used Mozilla for years and always check what's new in each update prior to letting it install. I have always trusted Mozilla and previously always updated. When I saw what was in the 140.0.4 package and researched UDP I was horrified, and have not allowed any further updates. I know it is important to keep all my software and apps updated, but this breaks the deal for me.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? I'm new to this info forum. 

[katzi]

Give me split-screen tabs, for the love of god.

[Jon]

Follow along, we're working on it! Split-screen/Tab-in-Tab feature (view more than one tab at once) 

[Ckraft]

Hello Jon. Please redirect me if this is not the correct place to submit  I'm very concerned about July 2025 update 140.0.4 incorporating UDP.ISN'T UDP TOTALLY UNSECURED BROWSING WITH UPDATE 140.0.4 A HUGE DEPARTURE FOR MOZILLA? Focuses on expediency and speed with absolute disregard for privacy protections.Having had the nightmare of my identity being stolen twice, I have gratefully used Mozilla for years and always check what's new in each update prior to letting it install. I have always trusted Mozilla and previously always updated. When I saw what was in the 140.0.4 package and researched UDP I was horrified, and have not allowed any further updates. I know it is important to keep all my software and apps updated, but this breaks the deal for me.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? I'm new to this info forum. 

[sedric]

I don't think this is the right place to talk about this, but UDP is not less secure than TCP and using it won't help to stole your identity. Both protocols are unencrypted and Firefox always used UDP for things like DNS query.

[sedric]

Hello, I'm a Squirrel.

As such, I still miss Panorama *a lot*. Having a way to zoom out to reorganize easily my tabs (and let's be honest, if I could do this with bookmarks, that would be fantastic !) was truly the highlight of my browsing experience back in the days.

Appart for that, I really dislike that ugly violet accent color which I found agressive on my sober desktops. I'd like to change it and for now, the only way I know is to depack omni.ja and change a bunch of css. I'm pretty sure we can have a color picker in the preferences pour set the accent color to our needs. In fact, the method I use don't work on Windows and Android so I just don't use Firefox on theses platforms and I miss it 😞

Speaking of Android, there is a feature that I find great on some other browsers that I'd like to have on Firefox, too : a preference check to always open new links in private tab when it comes from another app (opposed as regular browsing). It could be nice in desktop too, but at least, we have ways to emulate it on our own with profiles and the default being a "garbage" one.

Last words : please stop AI integration. That's bull**bleep** tech hype that broke the open web. Don't help enforce it. Be more radical.

Thanks for asking us !

[Patches]

I'm going to give it a few weeks because this was my favorite browser, but if you guys don't fix whatever issue is preventing Ublock Origin from blocking ads on YouTube, I'll be moving over to Brave and uninstalling. Google's an evil company and I'm not giving them money by watching ads.

[tilwiti]

wen ama bros 🤪

[Axel2]

I'm a long-time user of Firefox and I work as a web developer. I would never use any other browser as a matter of principles.
What matters most to me is the long-term health of the web platform: Mozilla should continue to keep Google and Microsoft in check and to be a leader in moving the web forward, promoting open source, striving for cross-browser compatibility, etc.

I don't care much about UI features like tab grouping, sidebars, AI integration, etc. That being said, I did see a comment about improving spell checking (by making it a built-in feature instead of relying on community add-ons), which I'm definitely in favour of. Also, the latest improvements to search engine integration on desktop are great, so I hope they can be ported to Android soon.

Overall, I'm more interested in having a performant browser that doesn't use too much RAM, especially on mobile. On Android, when I switch back and forth between Firefox and another app to copy things over, the page I'm on often has to reload, which is a huge pain and often leads to a loss of state. I know it's probably due in part to my phone's relatively poor config, but I'm sure there's room for improvement in Firefox.

Thanks a million for giving us Firefox and for continuing to improve the web platform.

[Jon]

Thanks @Axel2 - really valuable feedback! 

[aureliocasoni]

Hello,

I am a Firefox long user for almost 10 years. I use Firefox by ideology of competition. You are the last big browser using independent tecnology, not using the Chromium base. If I am a Mozilla Foundation's director, I am think Firefox as a last independent browser, and convince the persons what not want a browser what spy us every day.

For me the functions what I like on Firefox of future is: split tabs, workspaces, abilty to change the profiles easily (similar as users logged in Chrome - to create profiles with different extensions) and preserve multi-container feature - this feature is exclusive on Firefox and fit on my need and I use every day.

[Jon]

Thanks! And happy almost 10 years with Firefox 🎉

These are great suggestions and have been very popular in this thread. Some good news, split tabs is being worked on and our new profile management feature is already rolling out to users now — check it out here and let us know what you think. 

[BevK]

cheetah

[BevK]

been firefox since 2006

[dimakitil]

How about providing us a "History" that actually gives a timeline of when sites were actually visited rather than the stupid system you currently have where everything is jumbled up. What is the point of saving browsing history if you lose chronological context?

[CatsAreGods]

You broke pinned tabs!

I have always had my Gmail account pinned so it's on the far left. Suddenly with the latest release, the left/right tab scroll arrows make it essentially "one of the boys"; scrolled with everything else and thus not accessible unless I scroll all the way to the left.

[Clockian]

I guess I'm an owl, and I guess a squirrel in that I'll pile up tabs, then over winter or a couple weeks later, I'll got through them and close most of them.

Question: Why would you recommend Firefox over other browsers?

AMA Topic: Website Translation, and your ideas with the browser url translation feature mention in the Firefox survey.

Personally, I switched to Firefox after Google Chrome pushed their Manifest v3 change to me, which ended up breaking a handful of plugins and Monkey scripts that are absolutely essential to me using a couple of websites, the least of which was the adblocker I was using. I chose Firefox over others because of it's data privacy measures, and I used it at work to cleanly separate my workspace and entertainment, work(Chrome) entertainment(Firefox).

I like the vertical tabs, I think it's very slick. My only frustration with it is, when opening a new tab, my bookmarks bar pops up, pushing the tab bar down and all the tabs on it, leading to misclicks when I'm quickly going through tabs.

The one feature I miss the most from Chrome is the ability to reopen closed windows as far back as your history exists. When I used Chrome, I didn't use tab groups, so I organized tabs by having multiple windows. When I turned my computer off, I would start it again and open my past 3-4 windows to restore my browsing experience. Since transitioning to Firefox and using vertical tabs, I make use of tab groups way more, making this less of an issue, but I do run into the situation where tabs not in a group just get permanently lost if I restart and use Firefox without immediately restoring my previous session before closing it. I could find them through history, but that's way more painful than just right click, restore previous session twice.

The only time I ever use Chrome now is to use Google Lens when I'm searching with image, and it's the option of last resort.

[wutongtaiwan]

I need a switch to turn http3 on. This switch is placed in the browser settings, not in about:config

[Erwan]

A lifelong Firefox user, I switched to LibreWolf a year ago and really like it. Simple, efficient, and reliable. 
 
Which topics should we cover during the AMA?
 
How to keep Firefox worthy of the name while respecting its original ethics and without being corrupted by this system that swallows up all the good initiatives. How to have the most ecological browser possible (less consumption, less diverse and varied flows and interactions = less AI for example...). How to have a real Firefox without ads and without commercial incentives (from Mozilla in particular). When will you reintroduce in all letters the fact that you do not "sell your users' data"? 
 
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Don't forget this animal: 
 
Humans : are complex, twisted and easily influenced by the system, the masses and fashions. 
 
your Firefox browsing style?
 
Compact mode, without AI, without ads.

[MafuJosh]

Synced Workspaces (like Edge).

I've used Firefox since day 1 and Netscape before that.  Tried switching to Chrome at times but just couldn't leave behind the features I liked.  When I discovered and tried out the workspace and tab syncing in Edge, I switched immediately.  It was that good (if you use multiple computers).  Hurt inside to leave Firefox, and gave up other features I really like and the Firefox ecosystem, but 100% worth it.  I'll never switch back to Firefox and will recommend others to switch to Edge, until the day I can do the same thing in Firefox, the same way.  Open or close a tab on one computer or phone, instantly adds or removes it on all others, within something like an Edge workspace.  I know Firefox values security and syncing tabs all over is a cloudy feature, so it would obviously need implemented in a way to not make everyone mad.

I love Mozilla, keep up the great work!  Hope I can return back someday.

[RyleeLemke]

Honestly no idea

[John_Tellefson]

Used to be a Mozilla tester before it became Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey. I'm just now trying to convert to mainly using Thunderbird as email client, and at this point I think I like Seamonkey mail better. What I would suggest re Firefox is to survey users to see if they're private or business, old or young, big pc users or little tablet and phone users, want to keep data on their system for years or just have ephemeral data and focus on features  that serve the majority of users. I'd maybe pick out a few  undervalued strengths of the browser and promote them too, and once in a while bring back something from the ancient days of Mozilla like the firebreathing dinosaur as perhaps a downloadable theme or screensaver.

One of the current uses of technology is to promote positive change in society by access to information that serves a cause. The more the GOP cuts funding of agencies that provide reliable information on climate, economics, pollution and food additives and health info, auto and vocational safety, crooked  politics, etc, the more need there is of software to assist in activism and maintaining databases. These kinds of work would depend  on grownup responsible use of technology, not kid stuff and cellphones.

There are two areas of tech that I'm very sceptical about, AI and bitcoins. You could create a global financial crash by making people depend on bitcoins and then implode them after exchanging real assets for big cute numbers. And it's unclear at this time if AI could take the current state of knowledge about something (physics and engineering for example) and invent a flying saucer or some comparably brilliant display of intelligence. It's always in our own human interests to develop and use our own natural intelligence, IMHO.

[JeremiahLee]

I would like Firefox to support all of the "native app" APIs to make the Web platform the best app platform. Chrome is leading this and Firefox is lagging.

Generally useful native app APIs: Camera PTZ API, Presentation API, Payment Request API, Contact Picker API, Shape Detection API, File System Access API

APIs for connecting to hardware: Web Bluetooth API, Web NFC, Web Serial API, WebUSB API, WebHID API, WebXR Device API

[Disgusted]

No help on how to recover my bookmarks after latest update, Firefox browser is the only browser that you can't get help on. Why don't you come up with a way to fix the bookmarks? I have deleted and re-installed firefox several times trying to get my bookmarks back which I use often but no luck and no help on here. Would you please fix it.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Under Firefox Nightly (perhaps i've didn't notice before), i've noticed, Add tab to taskbar.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tex12XHmrdA

[seva]

My animal is a lion. Because I switched to the Brave browser. Because the question "when will Firefox start blocking ads on iOS" is completely ignored by the Mozilla team, and Brave is blocking ads on iOS right now.

[seva]

— A series of quick polls to find out where you are, what’s on your mind, and what you really want from Firefox.

1. First and foremost, what I really want from Firefox is plans to increase the number of users. Compared to August 2024, Firefox now has 5 million fewer users. IT’S TIME TO FINALLY OPEN YOUR EYES AND START THINKING ABOUT HOW TO ATTRACT USERS!
2. Second, what I really want from Firefox is transparency. The community is your ally and your best friend. The community tells you about your mistakes, suggests ways to solve problems, and is ready to give you money and promote you. However, your reports don’t look like an honest conversation with a friend — they look like a politician’s speech from the podium. A conversation with a friend is truth and openness. A politician’s speech is hiding part of the truth and using manipulative wording. Mozilla still hasn’t told us under what conditions it provides user data to third parties, and doesn’t let its own community refuse this or disable the option in settings.
3. Third, what I want from Firefox is a fair salary for the CEO. I was disgusted when I found out that the CEO, under whose leadership Firefox is losing users, will get almost as many millions of dollars as the millions of users Firefox has lost. If it were the other way around — and the CEO earned as many millions of dollars as the millions of users gained during their leadership — I would consider that a fair and proper salary.

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— What have you always wanted to ask the Firefox team?

1. Why don’t you write about your plans to bring users back? Do you even think about it? This should be your number one topic, it should be everywhere, you should be constantly discussing it with the community, constantly creating and releasing new and new ways to attract users.
2. On Mozilla’s blog there are articles about various initiatives. What’s the data for these initiatives? Do you track how many Firefox users have been added because of some new initiative? IF INITIATIVES DON’T BRING NEW USERS, WHY ARE YOU SPENDING TIME ON THEM AT ALL? WHY CAN’T YOU FOCUS ON THE MAIN THING?
3. For example, the #DailyDefiance initiative — how many users has it brought in? Understand this: you are not activists, you are not politicians, you are a team making a browser. Protecting the internet and fighting capitalists is not your job. Nor is defending or promoting minorities your job — your job is to make Firefox and attract users.
4. Why does Mozilla’s blog look like the website of some left-wing activists? Have you read Brave’s blog? Learn from them. Their blog has no political activism — their blog is about the browser. They make a browser, they write about the browser. You make a browser, but your blog is political activism. When will you start caring about Firefox?

(When will you finally add ad-blocking on iOS? Firefox on iOS has nothing that makes Firefox Firefox — you can’t install extensions, it doesn’t block tracking, and you don’t even replicate the functionality of the most popular extensions! You could at least run a vote on which extension features to build in!)

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— What topics should we cover during the AMA?
— The best approach, in my opinion, is to answer user questions honestly and openly. You don’t need to push any themes or ideas — it’s not a platform for political campaigning. AMA exists for transparency and trust. If a user asks how you plan to attract new users, you must answer how you plan to attract users. If they ask when a bug in the bug tracker — older than my nephew — will be fixed, you should answer that. Either answer, or say you don’t have one. If you turn the AMA into a campaigning platform, it can further erode the community’s trust in you.

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— What animal best represents your web-browsing style in Firefox?
A lion. Because I switched to Brave. Brave on iOS has an ad blocker, while Firefox on iOS feels like mockery. Brave’s blog looks like a blog of a team that makes a browser; Mozilla’s blog looks like a blog of political activists. The Brave team takes care of the browser and attracts new users. The Mozilla team writes about fighting corporations and completely ignores user attrition.

[seva]

The Firefox history mechanism remains unchanged and has a bug that’s many years old. If you visit a site again, the previous entry disappears. Honestly, this bug is an example of your disgusting interaction with the community. You roll out a bunch of things the community didn’t ask for, yet the thing the community does ask for gets ignored for years.

How would I like to see browsing history so it’s convenient to work with?

I’d like to be able to recreate a Firefox window as of a given moment in time, not just find a site I once visited. This would also solve the problem of losing tabs during a Firefox crash, which was mentioned in this thread. I want to be able to choose a day and time and get a Firefox window with the tabs that were open at that time.

This really doesn’t require many resources. The database should record the moment you enter a site, the moment the URL changes, and the moment the tab is closed. With these records, you can restore tabs for any moment in time. Also, if the user wants, they should have the option to enable saving small (128×96 pixels) screenshots of sites, of course not in private mode. Then the history manager would show which sites were open at each moment in time, along with screenshots, allowing you to quickly find the needed material.

The need for such a history, in my opinion, is that a person can remember abstract information: that yesterday evening there was some interesting article about monkeys. And finding an abstract article about monkeys is much easier by looking at the “state” of the Firefox window than by trying to recall the exact title.

[concept]

Remove AI.

[findorf]

I want to be able to customize keybindings in firefox. There are extensions that somewhat handle this, but they are handicapped because they can't override certain protected key bindings, and bindings only work within the context of a normal web page, not in chrome or protected pages. 

Either add built-in functionality for customizing hotkeys/keybindings, or make it so that extensions (with the right permissions) can provide that functionality.

I'd also really like to see better support for PWAs on linux, although I understand there is work ongoing on that front. 

The biggest bug I'd like to see fixed is that clicking on links with fragments that should scroll to a certain anchor/position often scrolls to an unexpected location. Sometimes it just stays at the top of the page, sometimes it goes to the bottom of the page, sometimes scrolls to somewhere a couple of screens below or above the target, and sometimes it seems to just be a random location. It doesn't seem to be terribly consistent, but I think it happens more often when opening a link in a new tab, rather than navigating in the same tab, and some sites are more prone to it than others.

Somewhat related, I'd like to see text fragment UI stabilized. 

[findorf]

Oh, one other thing.

I wish that I could sort the results of a search in my history and/or filter my search to a specific time period (like yesterday).