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Currently I'm doing research on a heap of products, and collating into an online spreadsheet. I'm wearing out the Ctrl+Tab keys flicking back and forth, copying/pasting etc! It would be awesome to "pop-out" a tab and have it "float" on top like what Picture-in-Picture does. I know you can the tab in a new window, resize it, move it etc but it still doesn't stick on-top and has borders that take up space. I've seen extensions that try to do split screen for tabs but they don't seem to work very well. Thanks! ... View more

Why not make it possible to edit various context menus and browser menus in order to remove unnecessary options and add others Edit Context Menu Page   Edit Menu   Tab Edit Menu     Loading... Loading... Loading... ... View more

I know Edge has this - very handy. You just right-click the page and Edge will generate a QR code for the URL.   I'm currently using this extension which is decent: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qr Thanks! ... View more

I recently imported my bookmarks from a previous Firefox install, and the icons were all a grey globe icon. When I clicked on them and used the bookmark link for a while, the icon generally changes to something linked to the webpage (such as an Excel icon, or Sharepoint icon). It would be better if the icons populate themselves without me having to individually click on them all. ... View more

The Library is a neglected part of Firefox that very clearly combines decades-old technology with new design specs and icons. Unfortunately, it therefore looks like a frankensteined-together part of Firefox that could really, really use a facelift because it catches you by surprise with its window-based nature when you try to manage your history or bookmarks. This vital piece of Firefox should be rewritten to be part of a tab, like every other part of Firefox. Modernize it! 🙂 ... View more

On some Computer My Thunderbird Profile is still the same as from the first version of Thunderbird from 2006. It contains a lot of strange files and is much larger than a new profile. Please develop a full migration of the Thunderbird profile into a new profile. Beside my I'm also Family admin of several PC with Thunderbird. Most of their Profile has the same age like my profile. It would be nice If I could migrate these profile as easy as possible. I do not wish to set up new mail clients  and may forget settings or add-ons.   I suggest following behavior. User do start a Profile migration Thunderbird requests some basics [x] Automatic cleanup - nothing get lost you currently use. [ ] Custom cleanup - remove some data you currently use but you do not need anymore. -> Add some requests If custom cleanup is active: list of add-ons, experimental settings, remove password list, etc. Create a new Profile Install all currently active add-ons Migrate all settings of Thunderbird Migrate all settings Thunderbird in the current Version is able to use Migrate accounts and also their mail filter rules Settings of migrated add-ons. Cleanup cached Mails Perform a Thunderbird start Migrate cached Mails -> May check ahead of the Migration if enough disk space is available Migrate requested Passwords. -> May ask for removing Password from the old profile If the whole migration was successful If every thing is successful and the next Thunderbird start was also successfully too, tar.xz the old Profile. ... View more

For those who use Firefox's Reader Mode, especially Text To Speech, I think it would be a good idea to add some "natural" voices to Reader Mode, and make the distinction between Offline and Online Voices, Offline Voices (system voices) are robotic and sometimes fails to speak words or to pronunciating them well, so, being a browser with 20+ years, Firefox needs to have more innovating features and not going backwards, it would be a good Usability and Accessiblity feature that other browsers like Edge has (the only browser which can be compared with Firefox in terms of features), and Audiobook listeners will be very thankful for this. I appreciate anyone who could find this a good idea, thank you so much.   ... View more

I like the idea of Firefox View, and I especially like the ease of accessing closed tabs and tabs from other devices, but I can't help but feel it's slightly redundant to have a dedicated page for this when all of these would be welcome as options on the New Tab Page. I would welcome them at least. ... View more

This came through as a question on reddit with 87 net votes, showing a screenshot of Chrome's "Search Tabs" feature (in the tab strip).   People pointed out that you can search tab titles via the address bar using the % restriction token. However, this is a bit of a multi-step process, unlike the same feature in Chrome, which allows people to do a Ctrl-shift-a and begin typing for the tab vs. the Firefox feature, which requires people to do Ctrl-l then type % space and begin typing the tab title. Ideally, there would be a keyboard shortcut that would focus the address bar with the restriction token already populated. ... View more

The current Firefox homepage/new tab page is quite minimal: I think there's an opportunity to make it look better and have functionality like the other browsers do Include stats about blocked ads/trackers etc - Since FF is privacy focused, why not display info from about:protections front and center instead of hiding it!  Wallpaper (optional please!). Maybe users could set their own or FF could randomly show some Calendar or other widgets. Brave shows a clock (which is kinda redundant) Weather (if user allows location access) Some Firefox feeds/ticker. You could have "Did you know"s or good news stories about what Mozilla is doing/how they're helping the world. Could also advertise Mozilla VPN or T-shirts! Kodi (used to be XBMC) has one of these tickers. Brave's new tab page below incl number of trackers/ads blocked, bandwidth and time saved:   Kodi RSS/news ticker: Firefox's about:protections sadly not being shown off!   ... View more

Common Voice is a Mozilla project that builds datasets for speech recognition systems, in it's collection it has low resource, vulnerable and endangered languages, that have little representation in the digital world. Adding a search by voice to Firefox, would provide a simple voice service for these languages. Beside the good cause, with this blue ocean strategy, Firefox might have a comeback. The browser's red market already has tons of players, where as the voice search for disadvantaged languages is a blue market that ideally Mozilla would be the only player or there would be few players with no giant players. This is a new market waiting to be captured that giants would not bother to enter. Please, Let me know what you think? What are the possible benefits if any? Do you use search by voice more often on your smart phone, tablet, notebook, PC? Best Regards, Nart Here is a screenshot of this feature in Chrome: ... View more

There are many languages in different places of the world. Currently, Firefox Translations doesn't provide succinct languages for people outside of Europe, the US and the UK. Please make sure to add more languages, especially significant ones, before starting to train Firefox Translations' neural networks. You have probably started already, but please make sure to add more languages. ... View more

TLDR: popularize Firefox uC styles among regular users by representing them as content downloadable from AMO (just like regular themes) and promoting this 'advanced customization' as a unique feature and not something shady used only by "power users". One of the greatest advantages of Firefox over other browsers is its interface is highly and easily customizable, thanks to using XUL for its UI. With minimal knowledge of CSS and 1-2 hours of learning you can change almost anything you want! Firefox GNOME Theme One of a few dozens one-liner styles FlyingFox MaterialFox Knowing that, it's weird to see Mozilla doesn't do anything about this feature at all! For example, to install the style, you have to enable uC support (labeled as "legacy stylesheets") in advanced settings which regular users won't ever go to, then find a style on potentially unsafe community forums, and then manually "install" it by moving it to the chrome folder. Not to mention this feature seems to never was actively developed, not allowing to anyhow store several styles, having several security vulnerabilities etc.   So, what do I think Mozilla should do: Actively promote this feature as one of Firefox's benefits (because it is). Most Chromium-based browsers can only provide a very limited customization options, so Firefox will definitely stand out with this. Most of them don't even allow you to rearrange toolbar icons! For example, take a look at Vivaldi - one of its selling features is high (comparing to other Chromium-powered browsers) customization, and Firefox can potentially provide way more options!   Improve the way userChrome works now The idea is to treat uC style the same as regular extensions and themes, providing config keys as extension permissions. This also means it'll require to ensure the uC style security (make a verification to protect browser from malicious sideload, fix possible security vulnerabilities (e.g. allow uC styles to load only other CSS files and PNG/SVG images) etc.) and maybe document some unclear parts of it somewhere on MDN.   Create a section for userChrome styles on addons.mozilla.org AMO Styles page mockup with a few themes showcased.Since the sideload will no longer be an easy option (though still possible for debugging), people obviously would need a place where they can easily download uC styles they want. Why not provide them with one then? They also should be clearly distinguished from themes, as the first ones intended for simpler customization and most of uC styles are fully theme-compatible.   What do you think? Hope this suggestion will get some good feedback 🙂 ... View more

Since Chrome 90, there has been a feature which allows users to highlight some text on a given webpage and create a link which, when visited, highlights the text again. The link is appended with #:~:text= with the text to be highlighted being URL encoded and put after. A simple but incredibly useful feature I recon Firefox could benefit from. ... View more

(Copying this over from the Ideas site.) Windows provides users with the ability to customize an accent color for window titlebars. Firefox should support this accent color for the tab strip. On Windows 10, the option is enabled under: Settings > Personalization > Colors > Show accent color on the following surfaces > Title bars and window borders The color for inactive windows can also be adjusted via the registry, and Firefox should also use that color when it has a value to support better accessibility. (HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\AccentColorInactive) ... View more

Please do not block my browsing session just to force me to restart!  Let me restart when I want to.  For security reasons, I'm almost always browsing in Private Mode, and as such, logins and passwords are not saved.  So when I'm forced to restart because of an update, I have to save my current tab session, reopen them after FF has restarted, and re-login to every site I was using—many of which require 2FA, so it's extra annoying. This is bad UX!  Put a notification, or even a whole separate tab telling me I need to restart.  But don't block out everything I was doing.  Even Windows doesn't do this... ... View more

I'd like to suggest to group messages in your inbox by date. E.g. Today, Yesterday, etc.   ... View more

Hi everybody! TB 102 has amazing new features, especially the integration of the webDAV standard. The address book looks beautiful and Email-addresses in a contact are obviously clickable. I suggest the same for telephone numbers. As far as I know, this should be fairly easy using the HTML tel: tag. Hope to see this soon. Best regards and keep up the amazing work! ... View more

It would be helpful to have the option to be able to rename tabs. This could help to easily differentiate between tabs that have the same name by default, such as some email clients or messaging applications. ... View more