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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

You can turn on privacy-preserving attribution by default, so why not turn on other privacy-related features by default? For example, the ability to prevent websites from selling or sharing data and the ability to send Do Not Track requests to websites should be enabled by default. In addition, https-only mode should be enabled in all windows by default, and you will only be scolded if you enable privacy-preserving attribution by default, but if you enable these privacy-enhancing settings by default, you will be praised. If you can, Enhanced Tracking Prevention can also default to Strict Mode, which has little impact on your website ... View more

Idea Suggestion: Add an option to bypass the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) links that Google/Bing use and go straight to the original publishers website on the mobile version of Firefox and Firefox Focus. Reasoning: The Brave web browser already supports this, as does DuckDuckGo, and AMP links can be annoying/unnecessary and could be used for tracking, which can compromise user privacy. As AMP is exclusive on the mobile web, it would be unnecessary to add it on the desktop version. ... View more

     I would like to edit the 3 dot menu to remove options that i don't use. I have 17 options in the menu and most of them i don't use. It takes much screen space and i need to scroll most of the time to get option that i would like to use.    ... View more

On Firefox Android, I've noticed problems on download management: 1. The Downloads page does not display the progress/status of ongoing downloads. It only displays completed downloads. 2. The download progress only displays in the system notification. If the download fails and cleared that notification (either intentional or by accident), the download will be removed/cancelled. Here's my idea: Add more information in the Downloads page (much like in Chrome and Edge): - progress/status of ongoing downloads - pause/unpause and cancel options - progress bar or otherwise - download speed and size downloaded over download file size Comparison of downloads page of Chrome, Edge and Firefox: Notice the download notification icon on the top of each browser. ... View more

As for now the themes for homepage is kind of boring. 1: Add clear colors 2: Option to to add your own background. No add-on, no fiddling around. Just choose.. Anyway..Love firefox 🙂   ... View more

Provide a black dark mode in Firefox Mobile to match popular AMOLED screen nowadays. ... View more

Give an option in enhanced tracking protection to block websites. 1. Block a website with all the urls so example.com but also example.com/food 2. Block website with all the .??? So block example.com but also example.to , example.ru and etc. 3. Built-in automatic block websites that contains viruses or other bad things that can harm you like malicious and phishing websites. I know you have add-ons/extensions to do this but 1. They are not always working. 2. Not everyone knows about those add-ons. 3. Not everyone trust add-ons because they need access to some stuff to let it work. 4. Not everyone wants or are interested in using add-ons at all. I think this is a useful feature for a browser like firefox. ... View more

Title, basically. This would not only be a quality of life feature, but in my case a security feature as well. I use FoxyProxy for certain domains, but if those domains are opened within another app using Firefox webview, then whoops! You visited the site without your proxy on. ... View more

Firefox addons for Android do not have the ability to modify the history because the History WebExtensions API is incompatible until now. I'm referring to this API: History. I really want my browser to delete history older than X days unfortunately Firefox doesn't do it. This is one of the most requested idea. If Mozilla isn't able to do this feature request, can they at least enable the History API so that addons can fulfill this request? The History Cleaner addon could do this if only it had access to the History API. ... View more

It'd be helpful to have a new tab button next to the address bar on mobile for easy access. Currently, opening a new tab requires two clicks - one to open the tab window, and another on the "+" button to open the new tab. This also requires interaction with two different parts of the screen that are far apart from each other (top right vs bottom right), which is hard to do one-handed or in a hurry, especially on larger phones.   I'm a heavy tab user, and the option to have a "+" button directly next to the address bar would make it easier to open a new tab quickly. ... View more

Introduce the possibility of synchronizing the extensions, not just the data configuration but the extensions themselves in such a way as to have them synchronized between various devices on Android  ... 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

I would like Firefox for Android to support the Android Themed Icons introduced in Android 12. Having a consistent theming between the apps I use on my home screen determines which apps I use the most and which I prevent using. ... View more

      When you enable "android private window visual refresh" in nimbus expirements you get a flame button on the left side of the toolbar instead of the home button. If you press the flame button all tabs will be closed in private mode. I like this feature but i now have enabled menu redesign and navigation toolbar in secret settings. It looks great but the flame button isn't anywhere to find with those option on so i hope mozilla will add the flame button somewhere on the toolbar to let people use both settings.     ... View more

Using bookmarks on mobile is pretty annoying. Your options are: 1) using uncustomizable shortcuts; 2) using the (...) menu to open bookmarks and 3) pin "latest bookmarks" to homepage and click "show all". Option 1 is pretty much out of the question if you use a lot of bookmarks and/or need folders; Options 2 and 3 have you clicking a lot to get to the bookmarks toolbar, which is extremely annoying. Also, adding something to bookmarks on mobile, doesn't bring up the menu to choose where it ends up, and doesn't have a way to set up a default location, which forces me to then go into the bookmarks menu and manually move them. Having a default location option and the desktop-style bookmarking menu would be much appreciated. I suggest an option for the current bookmarks widget or a new widget altogether for the homepage, that would just allow you to pin a bookmark folder (Bookmarks\Desktop\Bookmarks Toolbar in my case). Widgets usually have limited space, so I suggest having an arrow/show all button that will expand to show the whole folder (and you should have the option to have it expanded by default). Also, preferably in a list format rather than tiles with thumbnails. Alternatively add a bookmarks menu to the tab button menu, but this way the whole homepage is just wasted space for me, so I would prefer the former option. ... View more

In my personal and work use, I have never intentionally used private tabs. My browsing history is important to me, as well as the convenience of logging in with passwords. The only reason I've used private tabs is when I accidentally click "Open link in private tab". This sometimes creates confusion because I couldn't find the link I opened among the regular tabs and then I find out that I accidentally opened the link in a private tab. It's easier to avoid this mistake in Firefox desktop because the mouse pointer is more precise. In mobile devices however, I've frequently opened a private tab accidentally because the buttons where I press my finger are much larger. Please add a setting in Firefox Android where the privacy mode is completely disabled. I don't want to care about which tab I opened because I only want to use regular tabs. Sort of like a reverse Firefox Focus. ... View more

As an example, I have Twitter as a web app for both Firefox and Microsoft Edge. It loads much faster in Edge and sometimes Firefox doesn't load correctly and I lose the Twitter bar at the bottom that shows the home button etc. Please improve the performance of web apps in Firefox for Android. ... View more

The app chooser on android doesn't show/suggest firefox when we are opening pdf files. ... View more