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Firefox   There should be a keybind (ctrl+f8?, ctrl + alt + s?) to toggle the "hide tabs and sidebar" option under "customise sidebar". due to the weirdness around keybinds (like alt+ctrl+z to toggle the full sidebar), I think maybe this would be a good binding to leave unbound for the user to choose when remappable keybinds comes to firefox. ... View more

The AI in sidebar looks good, but it would be really awesome if you add a shortcut for more usability. Clicking by mouse every time to open chat is very uncomfortable and takes long time! Also it would be convenient to open some items from sidebar menu on the left side, whereas AI opened on the right side. Thanks!  ... View more

I am trying to find a browser that enables me to have different taskbar icons for each different profile in MacOS. Right now I have for each profile a firefox logo taskbar icon but they're all the same and I don't know which profile I am choosing, unless I open the window, which is not really the functionality I require.  ... View more

I frequently manage to close the Inbox window because I use keyboard shortcuts all the time and sometimes a ^W will close the Inbox window inadvertently. TB used to have a shortcut to open a new Inbox window but that option disappeared a few versions back. That means now I have to quit TB and re-open to get back to the Inbox window with my accounts. Not the end of the world but a bit of a time waste. Please bring back the option to re-open the Inbox window when it's closed. ... View more

Optional second category of received mail, first Primary active mail, optional second category unsolicited/ads/junk. (I am new to Mozilla; this may have been submitted prior.) ... View more

As a user of an open-source email client receiving marketing emails, I want to be able to identify messages with expiration dates, especially those that have already expired, in order to effectively declutter my inbox and actively contribute to reducing the ecological impact associated with storing these expired messages. Problem and Context The “Email Expiration Date” project aims to reduce the environmental impact of commercial emails by facilitating the deletion of outdated messages. Currently, email clients lack integrated tools to effectively manage the deletion of emails sent by advertisers who have set an expiration date. Implementing this feature in email clients would provide users with effective cleanup tools based on email expiration dates. For more information about the project and the proposed standard, please refer to: “Email Expiration Date” project site: https://www.zerocarbon.email/ Internet standard draft published at the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-expires/ User Benefits Integrating this feature would allow users to more easily clean up their inboxes by automatically deleting expired messages they are unlikely to read. With just one or two clicks, they could remove hundreds of unnecessary messages, improving email management efficiency and contributing to the reduction of the carbon footprint associated with email storage (see Ressources section). Implementation Proposal We are considering several options for implementing this feature: Search Option: Add a search option to find all expired messages in an email inbox. Users can then simply delete the messages if they wish. Virtual Folder/Tab: Create a virtual folder (or tab) listing all expired emails, offering the user the option to delete them with a single click. Expired Message Alert: Display an alert whenever more than xx expired messages are present in the email inbox, offering the user the option to delete them with a single click. Automatic Deletion: Allow the email client to automatically delete expired emails from a given sender from a displayed email. In this case, it is essential to obtain the user’s explicit consent so that no emails are deleted without their authorization. Preference Center : Show the complete list of bulk email senders to the user. In this list, they can enable or disable automatic email deletion according to their preferences (and unsubscribe via List-Unsubscribe). What we propose not to do: Individual expiration notifications: It is not recommended to create individual alert messages for each expired message. In addition to generating too many alerts, some spammers (and marketers) could take advantage of this to generate notifications using expiration dates. Options and Settings To ensure this feature is flexible and respectful of user preferences, the following options should be available: The ability to prevent the email client from deleting emails from certain senders via a list of senders not to be deleted. An option to add a sender to this list from the email reading screen. The ability to disable cleanup tools based on expiration dates, although the feature should ideally be enabled by default for any new installation of the email client or after the update adding this feature. Challenges and Considerations It is crucial that this feature be discussed within the community to anticipate and address potential challenges. For example, measures must be taken to prevent the malicious use of expiration dates, such as dates set before the email is sent or just a few hours after sending. The user must always remain in control of deleting emails in their inbox. Priority Given the climate emergency and the importance of reducing the environmental impact of technology, we request that this feature be considered a high priority. Every technology must adapt to minimize its environmental impact. Usage and Adoption Currently, only a small number of mass emails have an expiration date. According to a study by Orange in France, as of May 2024, about 5% of emails have an expiration date (source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathanloriaux_orange-email-expiration-date-activity-7211730790152306689-AscM). This is mainly due to the difficulty of enforcing an evolution of an internet standard. Although mass senders are very interested in deploying expiration dates in their emails, few sending platforms allow the addition of SMTP “Expires:” headers, and no major Mailbox Provider has implemented the technology. Therefore, it is essential that the entire ecosystem (mass senders, mass email sending solutions, and email clients) advances to make this project a reality. Wireframes These wireframes are examples of what the functionality could look like in existing email clients. We will progressively add more examples. Search Field Virtual Folder/Tab Additional Comments Expiration dates in emails are mainly intended for mass emails. At this stage, it does not seem relevant to allow an email client user to set an expiration date for emails they send. Ressources The IETF Standard Draft : https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-expires/ List of companies (Brands, ESPs, MBPs) supporting the project : https://www.zerocarbon.email/ Study on the carbon footprint of obsolete emails: https://splio.tech/carbon-footprint-of-decaying-emails-26b253aad4a7 List of email service providers implementations : https://www.zerocarbon.email/documentation/list-esps/ ... View more

It would be great if #Thunderbird added support for the Firefox Translations add-on The add-on could allow you to translate received emails you're viewing via a click of a button, or even translate an email you're writing into another language before sending. ... View more

Although I prefer to use the firefox browser, unfortunately it drains the battery on my laptop. A battery saving version would be nice in the future. ... View more

The average user saves web pages to look at later or to send to someone else... or if they don't currently, they want to save web pages to do these things. Firefox only has one native method of saving a web page complete with all images and content: "Web Page, complete". This is an absolutely terrible solution: It doesn't save as a single file. It saves dozens or even hundreds of files for a single page. One sample page that I saved was quite simple, but had 160 separate files and a folder for that one saved page! Moving the saved web page can be difficult for typical users, since the necessary folder may not get moved. Sending the saved page to others can be difficult and confusing for non-technical users. Files are not compressed, which saves space. Firefox used to have built-in support for the MAFF format, which was very useful...but it was removed several years ago for reasons which are unclear. Most of the major modern browsers have native support for the MHTML/MHT format. Of leading Windows-based browsers, only Firefox lacks this major and important feature. Firefox should provide the ability to save web pages with native support, in more than one format. Why? All other major modern browsers provide this support. Those browsers provide that support because it is demanded by users! Why is Firefox so far behind??? Users want to be able to save web pages which are important to them for many and various reasons. It's important to save things like filled forms, confirmations, pages with information of special interest, information of personal importance, etc. The list of reasons are endless! Web pages saved on other browsers cannot be opened with Firefox, which means maintaining a second browser to open those saved pages. These pages can come from friends or work colleagues and can be very important in daily life. If we cannot open them, it puts us behind other browsers. Typical users do not know how to move or to send "complete" web pages. They send just the HTML file and everything else gets lost, or they move it to another directory or folder and it doesn't contain the images or other function it had. For the average user, the "Web Page, complete" function is complex and useless. Typical users do not want to go through the complexity of finding and installing an extension to do a simple and common task. The first problem is that they may not even know what they are looking for, so they either spend hours searching through extensions or they give up...and switch to another browser which can accomplish the task. Firefox should be more compatible with file formats, not less. The primary value of Firefox among a field of other browsers is its feature set. Web Archive File format capability is an important feature which Firefox lacks and other browsers have. Firefox is incompatible with common standards in this regard--meaning that it is well behind the competition. Due to the complexity of the "Web Page, complete" save method, users may lose valuable data, which they have saved for a particular reason. It is extremely inconvenient to move hundreds of files and folders to relocate a few web pages. Important files can be easily lost if a user fails to move the folder as well. It would be much better to provide a native single-file solution for saving web pages than the current Firefox solution, reducing the complexity of this common task for the average person. It is difficult for the typical user to differentiate between single-page HTML and HTML pages saved as separate files. If they want to send an HTML file to a friend, they must either bundle up a bunch of files (which is beyond the technical expertise of many people) or point them to a website...or just give up. Most users don't know how to find an extension to save single-file web pages. If they do find one, it does not support the industry standard, so they cannot open similar files sent from others who do not use a Firefox browser.   What is the solution? Add native Web Archive File save and read support to Firefox for the following formats: MHTML/MHT -- This is the most common format, supported by all major browsers, except Firefox. Adding this function would make Firefox more competitive and more compatible, not to mention more useful. MAFF -- This format was actually created by Mozilla and used in Firefox, but was abandoned years ago for no good reason. The advantage of this format is that it uses the ZIP standard to compress a web page, creating not only a single file backup of the page, but saving space as well. Webarchive -- This format is used by the Safari browser on Mac computers. A lot of misguided and misinformed people use Macs. They may want to exchange web pages with their friends, family, or work colleagues, so including this format will allow that.   Later, support could be added for: WARC -- This is the Internet Archive's "Web ARChive" format, which can be used for saving entire sites. It could be used to save an entire set of tabs, complete with contents. HTMLD -- This is the "HTML Directory" format, which can also be used for sites and for web servers. It could be used to save tab sets as well. These two formats would put Firefox far ahead of the competition and add a feature that would add tremendous value.   The minimum support for a native Web Archive Format should be MHTML/MHT because it is the most common format in use. I would also argue for the MAFF format, which would offer support for orphaned files created by Firefox in the past...and should be easy to implement if the other can be implemented... After all, Firefox already has the code on hand. If security is a concern, then have this feature turned off by default, available to activate within Settings. No browser should ever be so secure that it is useless. Security should always be coupled with ability for software to have value.   ADDING MHTML/MHT AND MAFF SUPPORT SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR FIREFOX! ... View more

It would be useful to bring back Firefox send.  As it would allow me to easily transfer files to my friends over the internet.  It would also be useful if it could tie into Thunderbird as a Filelink for sending files that are too large to be sent via email. ... View more

Hi, Although Thunderbird Tools > Export, allows the for the export of 'everything' it would be incredibly helpfull if it could just have export option(s) with a / a selection of Account, and Configuration details, not just 'everything', all emails etc. This would greatly help with setting up new users / machine upgrates and transfers etc, even with backing up account details / configurations etc. Please consider. Simon ... View more

I kinda like what Google Chrome did, and also Microsoft Edge. With energy saving tabs, basically. It puts tabs to sleep when you're not using the browser at a certain point. You can set them up for like 5 or 10 minutes at a time, or over 2 hours, if you're watching a movie or something like that. But I would love it if Firefox would add that to the system or not ... View more

CURRENTLY IF I TURN OFF THE "WEB SEARCH" FROM "FIREFOX HOME CONTENT" SETTINGS, IT DISABLES THE LARGE SEARCH BAR SHOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN, BUT ALONG WITH IT THE FIREFOX LOGO ALSO DISAPPEARS, WHICH ISN'T DESIRED. RETAIN THE FIREFOX LOGO ON FIREFOX HOME SCREEN EVEN IF THE WEB SEARCH IS TURNED OFF. (I TURN WEB SEARCH OFF BECAUSE TYPING ON THE SEARCH BAR ON THE MIDDLE OPENS UP THE SEARCH BAR ON THE TOOLBAR, SO TO ME THE MIDDLE SEARCH BAR IS POINTLESS AND IT TAKES UP SO MUCH UNNECESSARY SPACE. ) ... View more

Add the option to add websites to shortcut on Desktop Firefox just by right clicking on the opened tab. ... View more

The internet now accounts for a significant portion of global CO2 emissions, currently more than the entire global airline industry. It will soon be responsible for more emissions than the automobile, if it's not already. The rapid rise in the amount of data storage and transmission is a key driver of this increased environmental impact. There are 2 experimental web standards that have at least partial support from Chrome, Edge, and Opera browers. These are: 1. The CSS media query prefers-reduced-data  2. The HTML header less-data Both of these allow users to let websites know that they would like a lighter version of a page. It would be great if Firefox introduced support for these as a way to encourage adoption and use. Options like these not only have the potential benefit of reducing carbon emissions related to data storage and transmission, but they could also keep older, slower devices out of the e-waste stream. This reduces the emissions associated with device manufacturing, as well as the many environmental impacts from mining of the raw materials that go into those devices. ... View more

I would like it if the TV version of Firefox was ported to LG WebOS, available to download from LG's software store, to use on my LG/WebOS Telly. ... View more

The official documentation still issues a warning with respect to Maildir:   Warning: We suggest you leave Maildir disabled unless you are an advanced user, willing to risk your data, and know how to back up your email before turning on Maildir and how to restore it if you run into problems.   There is even a long-standing (meta) issue on Bugzilla on this topic. It would be good to see this coming true and available for regular users. ... View more

Hi, it would be very helpful in Thunderbird if you could display various messages in colour, for example invoices to be paid in the inbox. To do this, add ‘Mark with Colour’ (or similar) to ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Mark as Unread’ in the ‘Tools/Message Filters’ menu under ‘Filter Rules/Perform Actions’. The entire message line/row is then displayed in the selected colour. The same display in Thunderbird Android would of course be great. ... View more