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When I decide to save an image from the web, I right click and chose save image as.  The dialog which opens has a VERY tiny name field.  Precious few existing names ever fit in the field. And, when I select the text to rename the file, quite often all text gets selected, including the extension.  Since I could not see the extension because the field is so small, I have no idea what it is.  I have to manually highlight and delete the file name first, then key in the new one. Ideally, the file name field size would correspond to the width of the browser window. Currently it is a fixed width.   ... View more

The Option to automatic fade-in and fade-out of the bookmark - list - menu depending on the position of the mouse pointer. Firefox Desktop Version. It can be useful (for me 😅) and / or others too. ... View more

It seems that some Firefox users don't use or know about add-ons. I think that including suggestions of popular add-ons in the welcome page will help. They can be put into groups depending on their functionality. ... View more

Please create a bookmark button, which is accessible with a minimum of clicks and ordered correctly! The current button is a library for bookmarks, history and downloads. After clicking bookmarks all the recent bookmarks are shown chronologically. My folder structure is ignored and finding a bookmark that was created more than a week ago is usually a pain. Additionally it is an unreasonable amount of clicks to only end up at "Manage Bookmarks". I wish for a Button that opens a context menu similar to "Manage Bookmarks": All my bookmarks (except the ones inside folders) are shown in alphabetical order, folders are displayed alphabetically and expandable. This would be an amazing button to access your bookmarks with minimal clicks and in the structure we carefully set up once. ... 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

In the most recent nightly build, the browser is set, by default, to look to the OS theme first to determine whether to use a Light or Dark theme. While this may be appropriate on OSs that allow for scheduled OS theme changes, many OSs, including Linux Mint and Windows 10, do not offer this natively. At best, external applications allow this change, and at worst the only option is for users to "hack" the OS to enforce scheduled theme changes. In these scenarios, the default behavior of Firefox is unacceptable. A popular extension exists called AutomaticDark, which allows for scheduled theme changes within Firefox (besides the default Light/Dark), and these theme changes can be triggered either by the OS theme changing or by independent triggers (sunrise/sunset, custom time, etc). What this extension currently does not take into account is whether the browser recognizes Light or Dark theme as applicable. Without going into about:config to change the settings, the browser will still act in "Dark" mode if the OS is in "Dark Mode" but AutomaticDark has it set to "light" mode. Two solutions exist to this paradox. 1. Provide a proper GUI to configure this setting, perhaps with expanded options to natively change the theme as AutomaticDark would otherwise be necessary to enforce. 2. Expand Add-On permissions to access and change the "Light Mode/Dark Mode" configuration, with AutomaticDark in mind. Either solution will allow for stronger customization of the browser independent of how the OS may be configured. An example of how this is already applied can be seen in Vivaldi, where Theme Changing is built into the browser natively. ... View more

While largely forgotten by mainstream internet users, RSS feeds and RSS subscriptions are still supported to this day, and on Firefox there exist extensions like FeedBro and Livemarks to support RSS subscribing years after Firefox dumped native support. The only problem with these extensions is that they offer no means to sync feeds across multiple devices through Firefox Sync. In the case of Livemarks (itself based on Firefox's old native implementation), the reason ultimately comes down to the way Bookmarks are tagged, as Livemarks saves RSS feeds as Bookmarks, but can only update those feeds when the original device is active (IE: the device the initial feeds subscription was made on). https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/issues/22   I propose two solutions to this: 1. Update either Bookmarking tags or Extension Bookmark permissions to enable Livemark syncing across multiple devices 2. Implement a new native RSS Reader solution that could sync feeds across multiple devices (that is, one made with Firefox Sync in mind).   It is worth noting that nearly every modern web browser has some kind of "news feed" feature that allows for updated news articles on the new tab page. On Firefox currently, the equivalent is "Pocket" integration, wherein popular Pocket articles are shared on the new tab page. This could be incorporated into a native RSS reader, wherin Pocket is the default source but users are encouraged to subscribe to additional sources as they browse. Alternatively, Pocket itself could be reworked as both a "Read-It-Later" service and a RSS Reader, and could be a source of revenue for Firefox. Update: With the news that Thunderbird will adopt K-9 Mail as it's Mobile Client with the potential to sync more than just emails between devices, Thunderbird's native RSS Reader could also be an opprotunity to sync RSS Feeds with a Mozilla Account. ... View more

I currently read a lot of pdfs with many references to previous formulas, definitions and graphs. These references are useful to look back where the formulas or definitions came from and what they looked like. However, if there is a lot of jumping around in the document, it gets very confusing to always scroll back to where you clicked the reference. My request is a feature where hovering over a reference in a pdf pops up a small window with a preview of what you would see when clicking the pdf-internal link. Something similar to visual studio code's peek definition when working with code or on gitter and github when hovering the mouse over an issue. Another easier idea would be a "return" button, like "drawboard pdf" has, where you can jump to a state from before klicking the reference. However I think the peek functionality is far superior and I couldn't find any pdf reader, that implements this. ... 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

Search led me to the wrong place, and my query there for a better place did not produce an answer, but only an unending stream of irrelevant notifications. Just spent a long time trying to turn off the subscription for the topic, but can't find out how. Please make it stop. So far all of my attempts to use this system have similarly led nowhere. I'd like to see Mozilla survive, even thrive and flourish, but this seems to be a funny way to run a business model. Perhaps the root of the problem is that my own motivations are funny? On the negative and dark side? I mostly just want the freedom not to use a browser controlled by an evil corporate cancer such as Microsoft or the google. The overlap between my motivations and Mozilla's seems to be shrinking pretty steadily. ... View more

Up until now I kept quiet, but removing the DOWNLOAD PROMPT was the last drop. So here's my idea: DO. NOT. DROP. "OBSOLETE". FUNCTIONS. Instead, here's what you do: Keep a "legacy settings" in preference, which should allow users to revert to the functions they are used to, and before every major update RUN A FREAKING POLL before CONSIDERING taking out an old function. ... View more

Hello everyone, I would like Firefox to do something that seems to be "natural" in other browsers (it's one of the few things I like about other browsers): alphabetize the hidden extensions in the Tools menu (overflow menu) . That, at least a simple task. Now, if you wanted more points in your favor, that the overflow menu has a behavior similar to the Bookmarks menu, have the ability to sort items alphabetically on user request (selecting the corresponding option from the context menu). Thank you very much. One more user since the first versions of Firefox, do not disappoint me, you are still on time.   ... 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

Mozilla, why don't you provide us with relevant information when prompting for an update? I long for times back when the link was displayed ... View more

Something like this:   Would be really useful, especially for people that have their passwords changed regularly (you currently can't quickly check if a saved password is the correct one) The other major browsers (and Win10) have this ability, I'm surprised it's not built-in to Firefox already. ... View more

The documentation states that pinned tabs are different than normal tabs by "not having a close button so you can't accidentally close them". A lot of users are used to ctrl/cmd + w shortcut to close a tab. This same shortcut is valid for all tabs for all other browsers, as well as for "normal" tabs in Firefox. It'd be good to have the option to enable this shortcut for pinned tabs as well. ... View more

On a pinned tab, playing some sound, in the hurry, one can click on the sound icon instead of the tab itself. This way, instead of focusing the tab, we'll be muting it, resulting in couple more clicks until we're at the desired state (unmuted & focused tab). One possible solution is to (have the option to) keep the icon only as an indicative measure (i.e. non-clickable) ... View more

This feature makes the drag and dropping of tabs into a new window much quicker and much more responsive. This is a feature that's also in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This will also not make the users unclick the mouse to make tabs into a new window. Please see the video below for more information about this idea. ... 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