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Add search engine sorting in Firefox for Android Currently search engine sorting is present on desktop and even iOS versions, but not Android. While this feature is just a small improvment, its lack can be very annoying. For example, in all my browsers except for phone I have engines in following order: general searches, Polish Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, other specialised engines (in custom order). On phone I have DDG, Qwant, English Wikipedia, Startpage, Polish Wikipedia, specialised engines. Unluckily keyboard hides Polish Wikipedia and other custom searches which eventually led me to forgetting I added them. The only way I can fix it on my own is through removing all of the engines and adding custom ones in right order, hoping I won’t make any mistake in the process or that I won’t want to add one more that’s shouldn’t be at the end, like Brave or Wikipedia i third language. Hopefully my example shows can useful this feature is and how annoying its lack can be. ... View more

Opera has an interesting feature, when we click on a tab, it scrolls up, which is very convenient, do the same in Firefox. ... View more

Currently, when you delete an email, a dialogue pops up to confirm your action, which seems less efficient to me. Instead, I'd suggest an undo button at the bottom for a few seconds. I'd also include an undo function when sending an email. ... View more

quite often i have loads of tabs open, and then it would be helpful to have the option to make tab groups, without needing to bookmark it to be able to put it in a folder. Such a feature exists in safari, you just go to your open tabs and click create tab group. Afterwards, you can put the open tabs you want in that tab group. If firefox had that, upon every feature it has now, it would beat all browsers by a land slide. If you have an iphone or ipad and haven’t experienced safaris tab groups, go check it out. The idea: a tab group feature in firefox for ios, like the tab group feature like that in safari for ios ... View more

It appears that TB currently runs its automatic message filters only on messages in the Inbox. If a filter needs to be run on the messages in another folder, one has to do so manually. This is very cumbersome (and quite beats the purpose of an automatic filter), especially in scenarios where there are server-side filters that sort messages into folders or subfolders. Those messages never get processed by TB's filter rules. It would be great if TB could either run the configured filters automatically on ALL folders, not just the Inbox or allow to mark each filter individually for being run on ALL folders (eg. via an additional checkbox besides "Enabled" in the filter overview pane) or allow to select a folder on which to run the filter in the "Edit/New filter" dialog window (maybe using Inbox as default if none is selected). The logic and data source for that dropdown would be the same as for the "Run selected filter(s) on:" that is already present at the bottom of the filter overview pane. Thanks for considering this idea - and for the great mail client! ... View more

Firefox Text to Speech capability is severely lacking compared to Microsoft Edge. Text to Speech should be moved outside of Reader View. Higher-quality voice offerings than Microsoft Edge should be offered, perhaps AI generated. ... View more

What made Firefox successful in the past? It was simply fast, adaptable and user friendly. Then Chrome came and did exactly the same. But now its faster, and has very similar Addons at least. It sucks, but people dont seem to care about privacy? Is that too short? What if they care about privacy, why should they use Firefox? Firefox is not a privacy out of the box browser. Its a flawed concept. Everything a product stands for, has to be actually enabled by default!   I use Arkenfox, and I used Librewolf before. But Librewolf is slower than Arkenfox with native Fedora Firefox, so I chose the extremely manual way. But even for me that is work. On other installs I simply set some GUI settings and thats it. No RFP, no webgl, useragent or canvas randomization...   Firefox is not a privacy browser, even though its easy to make it one. Privacy is literally the only reason why people would use it!   Firefoxes userbase is big enough. I dont even know how to donate to the Browser, I already did to the other Mozilla and in the end didnt care anymore. If every Firefox user donates like 1€/month, its enough to get rid of the shady search engine deals.   Those Search engines and useless presets make Firefox a useless browser. For normies that dont know its the only private browser once configured, will simply use Brave. Having Google by default makes it useless, Chrome is the Google Browser. Firefox needs to take this step: get rid of all the crap that makes the internet the place it is. Ads are flawed. Invasive search engines should be removed. Having no vision for this gives people no reason to use Firefox. A privacy browser does not include Google out of the box.   Why not? Block Ads by default Be very secure by default Use containers by default Simply integrate Arkenfox as an out of the Box setting. Have a "secure mode" toggle that enables this   Arkenfox is usable for daily life! Really! And even with Noscript it is. The only thing stopping Firefox from doing this out of the box is the shady Ad deals. If they dont rely on those companies, why not just block all Ads?   Why develop "privacy preserving Ads" techniques, and not just a way to donate to websites you often visit? With crypto, or anything else. Maybe have a database and donate bigger amounts to fewer sites to reduce transactions. Everything anonymized.   Firefox is a great Toolbox. But as nobody uses a browser like that, its current state is useless for people. Without out of the box privacy and real innovations, it has nothing to offer compared to Chrome or Edge. ... View more

When switching to Reader View all images of the article disappear. Not useful when explicative articles tell "It's shown in the picture below. As you can see…", not-so-easy understand news articles without pictures which show how much terrible a quake is, and so on. When an image is included in the text the user must switch to the page, search the picture the text is focusing on (starting from the page's begin because Reader makes text shorter than the article on the webpage text is catched from). ... View more

tl;dr: "𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙒𝙚𝙗" combining tabs, bookmarks, and notes into a local-first, end-to-end encrypted, non-hierarchical knowledge base that can be viewed as a web of linked nodes! From the world-wide-web to your own personal web (or collaborative organizational web). Sidenote: Mozilla's track record sponsoring next-generation technologies is awesome, like the Servo browser engine or the perceptually-driven, patent-proof, Daala video codec based on lapped transforms (not used in AV1 or AV2, sadly). Could new labs/products incorporate censorship-resistant future-internet protocol Named Data Networking (intro video), or peer-to-peer (P2P) version-controlled file synchronization based on git-annex/DataLad…or both? Introduction: Motivation & Vision     Accessing the world's knowledge is only the first step; tracking and organizing it is even harder. IMHO the bleeding edge Firefox once had—introducing the innovations other web browsers have all adopted—could be regained by iterating, albeit in a radical way, on the current concepts of tabs, bookmarks (and associated tags), and notes. Competition i.e. Field-Proven & Market-Validated Knowledge base applications like Appflowy, Lark, Confluence, and Notion have taken over, diverting attention & love away from traditional collaborative apps like 1st generation wiki software or Google Docs. There is even a decentralized one built on content-centric networking, Ownly. Plus, over the past few years, more and more of these platforms have launched with or implemented a semantic network or graph-view of notes/pages (SiYuan—only one with end-to-end encryption for sync, Cotoami, Obsidian, Logseq, Anytype, Supernotes, and many¹ others) as originally pioneered by Roam Research (whitepaper). Users and organizations have outgrown cloud-based filesystem imitations with rigid hierarchical definitions of types of "files" and their structure/organization. People expect fluid and semantic data with intuitive options to edit, store, access, and view information. Differentiation: Unique Value Proposition (UVP) Clearly, Firefox wouldn't have a first-mover's advantage, but all existing solutions are built on top of the web, which separates them from the browsing experience and users have to explore in their browser of choice to research and find information before returning to whatever app to reference and annotate what they have found. Mozilla has the special position of providing the portal to information itself: the web browser, complete with concepts that already map to categorizing & linking data: tab groups, bookmarks, calendar/events, file sharing/publishing, notes (discontinued), real-time communication, even social bookmarking à la Pocket, and—if you use Sidebery or Tree-Style Tab—nested tab relations (which tab was this one opened from?). Plus, there would be niche-dominance for not just doing one or two of the best-practices spearheaded by existing apps, but combining the best of all worlds. In particular, a local-first (whitepaper) approach, so far exclusively implemented by Typecell, making features like edit/revision history, instantaneous responsiveness via lazy-sync and end-to-end encryption (e2ee) possible using a federated graph database synchronization protocol to host these collaborative documents (Matrix CRDT repo). MOZSS–Enterprise: Monetization The general concept is already commercially validated and nearly industry-standard. Along with charging for other products as an enterprise services bundle to provide additional functionality not really useful to individual users (collaborative translations, shared password/credential management, etc.), additional features built on this could be paywalled such as: Security features: Extra access controls, 2FA/MFA enforcement, auditing abilities User management: SSO Authentication, automatically sync intraweb spaces & permissions based on LDAP, AD, and SCIM policy definitions Raise limit on file storage, number of users collaborating on one of these infraweb spaces, etc. Implementation Visually, each "node" can show a preview of the content not unlike typical "tiles" or "cards" used across the web, for example on Firefox's default start page showing Pocket articles (the thumbnail would be a screenshot of the tab, and the text would be user-generated), but instead of a grid they would be laid out in a zoomable 2D or 3D graph or "web" of pages. References to other notes/tabs are represented by lines linking to other nodes on the map or graph. A sidebar can serve as a quick-access panel with a hierarchical list of important starting points and filterable by "tab groups" or arbitrary labels. Each node represents either: A "tab" (a URL which has been opened by the user) which can show each device it is open on, and whether for that device it is "active" or "inactive" à la Firefox Mobile. A standalone note: Rich document with arbitrary data. Tabs are each attached to a note so that users can annotate tabs with their thoughts and references to other things. An external reference (a URI that either has only been linked to from user-generated annotations in their notes/tabs). Power users (many in the free/libre/open source sofware community) will expect to be able to edit with shortcuts and a standard markup language without clicking around a WYSIWYM/WYSIWYG rich text editor—which should still be default—and LaTeX (à la FidusWriter) is well-equipped, but ideally would use something simpler and de facto standard-compatible like MyST (Markdown extended to have feature parity with AsciiDoc/reStructuredText for technical, scientific communication and publication). Phases Backbone: With the address bar in Firefox auto-completing to suggest tabs open on any device alongside bookmarks, these can be refactored to be unified under the hood, separated only by some metadata Synchronization/CRDT: Possibly rewrite syncserver to preserve modification history on top of the Matrix protocol using peritext for rich formatting and possibly Recfiles as the underlying database to store arbitrary data including aforementioned richly formatted hypertext. Web view: Toggle to a graph-based view of all tabs and notes allowing users to annotate them with their own thoughts & ideas. Each "node" would show a URL-thumbnail (if representing a tab) and (either way) a preview of the user-generated text. Arbitrary data: Support various blocks of data (cards, tasks, tables, calendars, forms, spreadsheets, canvas/boards, flowcharts, databases etc.) Collaboration & publishing: This is needed for enterprise, of course, but it would be nice to offer to families for free. Challenges File storage: Users may expect to upload larger files, which puts added strain on sync server. Maybe this can be avoided with a p2p sync tool like listed at the top of this post Initial effort: There's a massive backend-lift needed to "do it right" from the beginning, otherwise the later possibilities are severely limited if not impossible. Perhaps this could be a collaboration with the Matrix Foundation, or others to share the cost. Conclusion There is a regular progression of proprietary →free/libre/open source development whereby a new concept is implemented repeatedly in usually-but-not-always proprietary services and condenses into an open standard/protocol. If you look at various past examples: SMTP from the walled gardens of AOL, CompuServe, GEnie, MCI Mail, IBM PROFS, etc. Matrix from the silos of Slack, Zulip, Discord, Twist, Teams, Mattermost, etc. Fediverse experiments like Nostr (à la Ditto), ActivityPub (à la Mastodon), or AT Protocol (à la Bluesky) from the many many [micro]blogging and social media hubs Xanga, LiveJournal, MySpace, Twitter/X, Tumblr, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, the list goes on. When the expected features, functionality, and best practices become hegemonic, an open standard emerges to formalize and democratize the adoption of said technology. It seems like we're approaching that point here, but who leads and wins the de facto way forward is yet to be seen. I hope it is Mozilla, but I'll be happy when anyone checks all the boxes laid out above: collaborative, local-first, end-to-end encrypted (backed by a decentralized graph database synchronization protocol and requisite CRDT), nonhierarchical, knowledge base that undercuts the expensive centralized hosting of all the current providers! P.S. I have plenty of fire names for this other than the generic "IntraWeb"—please steal this idea and let me help name it! Footnotes The many other platforms supporting semantic network or knowledge-graph—in addition to those already mentioned above—include, but are not limited to, Capacities, Zenkit's Hypernotes, Tana, Foambubble, Constella, Amplenote, Relanote, Nuclino, MindMeister, Remnote, and probably others I've missed   ... View more

On android each time I click on a link from bookmark it is opened in a new tab. After I have done reading the tab I push the back button, and I'm moved to the home page, but the tab I have just read isn't closed! After a while I have lots of old tabs that I don't need anymore, and I have to close them. It's so annoying! Previous version of Firefox (fennec) used to close the tab after I pushed the back button. Please restore the old functionality.       ... View more

There should be more icons available for containers than the current thirteen, or user should be able to select their own icons. ... View more

Mozilla needs to remove outdated add-ons from theirs add-ons store because it's dangerous to keep old add-ons. Why because outdated products are easy targets for hackers and viruses. It can affect the users data and system but it can also attack mozilla self. It's best to remove those to protect the users and mozilla self.  ... View more

Firefox should again respect the user's wish expressed by "xpinstall.signatures.required" and thereby allow manually permanently installed unsigned extensions. As an addition to the signing process, the user could also be offered the following options in the addon settings: signed (only) unsigned, but intention of installation confirmed (e.g. by entering the user password (if available)) all The arguments for this are relatively clear and in line with the principles of free and user empowering software original practiced by Mozilla and Firefox. Users should not be prevented from making their own decisions and customizing the browser. The current approach represents a repressive opaque encroaching course of action that ultimately drives users into the hands of other browsers. While the browser should certainly provide helpful warnings to the user, it should not force the user against his will. Instead, an extension environment should be established, which allows access to sensitive data to be regulated through a fine-grained rights management. ... View more

Hello,  I would love to see in the next Firefox a support for the meta-Tag `theme-color`. As some Extensions or other Browsers do. (Like) If there is no available Color, I would just have my default theme set.    Thanks for Upvotes or an Update  It's the only thing I miss on Firefox idna ... View more

On a phone, when you scroll, it automatically hides the address bar and everything on it, to go 'full-screen'. I would love this on my laptop. That when I scroll, or even just sit on a webpage for a moment, the URL bar will smoothly transition into being 'hidden'.  I want to be clear: I do NOT want to use the fullscreen, CTRL + F11 function, because then my Windows task bar is not accessible. Fullscreen browsing and a hidden task bar are currently not compatible. I have a userChrome.css file that gets the job done, but I would like official Firefox support! ... View more

I'm sure any developer reading this is familiar with Chrome's feature to allow local Source overrides while the devtools window is open. I'm not sure if Firefox's 'source map' feature can accomplish this same task with local files. ... View more

You must allow folks to permanently disable the incessant requests to update to the latest version of Firefox. How about a 3rd option besides Dismiss and Download..."No. Do not ask me again" Don't understand how folks deal with multiple popups each day. ... View more

Suggestion: Add the ClearUrls Add-on to the Android and iOS version of Firefox. Reasoning: ClearURLs can improve the users privacy by removing unnecessary URL parameters that are used for tracking purposes. To make this work, the HTTPS Everywhere Add-on could be removed to make room for ClearURLs as HTTPS Everywhere is being discontinued at the end of the year and Firefox for Android already has a HTTPS-only mode. ... View more