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Hi Developers,
I have idea to add my suggest, after I saw large Message Pane Header with many lines, tried to uncheck or hide lines down, but limited I saw. Now, here is Image I uploaded; with number I drew on it: 1, 2, 4 and 6 are not needed to show in Header space, because all are already list on above on Message List with purple highline block. I do not like large Message Header, need it turn to Compact Header in ONE Line of Message Header (like one in Top line is perfect with menu icon with letter), it is all I need. Can you add 1, 2, 4 and 6 with Hidden items (lists) to "More\Customize\Message Header Setting" Content Menu on left side of Message Header?
Many of us will like it very much as far as we need to make Message pane large and more readable space!
I looked over Thunderbird App, and I found it best software ever I tried than Outlook App/Spark Desktop App! Thanks! Andrew
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It would be great if in this connect forum users would be able to filter comments by admins only. I don't necessarily care for conversations between users on some topics and would like to just get a quick summary on progress of in development features, usually provided by admins.
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the current behavior when printing a webpage as a pdf document is to name the pdf file temp[numbers].pdf. I prepose that the default string for what a pdf is named comes from the html hedder of webpage tthats being "printed"
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Firefox 135 has removed the feature of sending a "do not track" header, as it was not respected by most websites. To clarify, DNT is still available through about:config and is automatically enabled in "Strict" tracking protection and private windows, but it has been removed from the normal browser settings, where it now only shows the option to enable GPC. My idea is to merge DNT and GPC into one visible settings. So you would have "GPC & DNT both enabled" or "both disabled". I understand the concern of the DNT signal adding further fingerprinting potential. However, if we just merged DNT into the GPC feature, this should not be a problem. Some context why DNT is still worthwhile to keep as a privacy feature: In 2011, Mozilla brought us the wonderful Do Not Track feature. It was soon adopted by other major browser makers. In 2014, it became law for any website offering service to Californians to include a Do Not Track disclosure in its privacy policy. Do Not Track became a standard aspect of privacy policies. Today privacy policy generating tools have made it easy for a website to disclose a Do Not Track stance. Today numerous analytics tools make it simple for a website to implement a Do Not Track choice. Multiple websites demonstrate example code for how websites can implement a Do Not Track choice for the remaining analytics tools. At least one cookies consent tool will silently obey Do Not Track to avoid an annoying user prompt. Many websites have disclosed a stance of not obeying Do Not Track. This disclosure is very useful because it can give users a consistent and efficient way of evaluating a website's stance on using user data. With a web search for "name-of-website do not track privacy policy" a user can perform this evaluation before even deciding to visit a website. Hundreds of websites have instead chosen to disclose a stance of obeying Do Not Track. These websites include medical offices, restaurants, websites for children, government websites, and many other subjects. Some of these websites may not ever service Californians but perhaps those websites like the principle of Do Not Track and have chosen to adopt it. Statistics over the last 6 years demonstrate more than 22% of Internet users enabling Do Not Track. Statistics from 2024 indicate 32.5% of users use an addon to block JavaScript. Taking an estimate of 75% of users who enable Do Not Track also being users who would use an addon to block JavaScript would mean 16.5% of users doing both. 16.5 is more than half of 32.5. For fingerprinting, all users are recommended to enable Do Not Track, to blend in with the majority for users who block JavaScript or because other forms of JavaScript fingerprinting can already uniquely identify users who do not block JavaScript. Mozilla statistics for Firefox Do Not Track usage may be lower due to possible forms of bias and any percentage tracked by Mozilla can be considered a minimum value. Bias can come from multiple scenarios. Users who use DNS to block Firefox telemetry are likely the type of people who will enable Do Not Track and Mozilla will not record these users. Public institutions offering computers for public usage and school computer rooms may restore a default profile for each user, meaning Mozilla may collect the default Do Not Track value before a user has a chance to enable the setting, and the Firefox profile may be reset when the user logs out before Mozilla has a chance to record the user's choice. California law apparently allows users rights regarding sensitive personal information. Four categories are relevant: a) selling user data to fourth parties, b) sharing user data with fourth parties, c) sharing user data with third party analytics products, and d) the website's use of user data. For the purpose of discussion, the wording "fourth parties" is used to indicate third parties which are not analytics services. According to research by Steve Gibson from visiting a popular technology website, an enabled Global Privacy Control signal limits a) and b) but does not limit c) and d). Examined implementations of Do Not Track limit c), meaning a), b), and d) are implicitly limited when a website obeys Do Not Track signals since you cannot sell, share, or use what you did not collect. Steve Gibson also described how Global Privacy Control was developed on that popular website to examine a user's location and only apply the minimum legal requirements. At the time of his research, privacy law in Virginia existed but since it did not explicitly mention Global Privacy Control, the website was not expected to obey a Global Privacy Control signal from a user in Virginia. Examined implementations of Do Not Track apply the setting universally to all Internet users on websites which obey Do Not Track signals. Steve Gibson further clarifies by saying in contrast to Do Not Track, Global Privacy Control is explicitly not about preventing tracking. Businesses in Germany are legally required to obey Do Not Track signals. There are sufficient reasons to maintain both Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control in Firefox's user interface, with them serving different roles and being supported by different legal frameworks. Related bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1936761 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949550
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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/
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It would be very helpful to have an option to include subfolders when selecting folders to search in Thunderbird. For example, when searching for messages in an archive folder that preserves folder structure and is organized by year or by month, the archive folder will have potentially dozens of subfolders. It's fairly cumbersome to have to expand all of those subfolders to be able to select everything individually. Much easier to be able to simply select the top folder (e.g. the archive folder) and check an option to include subfolders in the search.
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Can we update Firefox search engine options to include Startpage? Other browsers already have this & would make it a lot easier to use on my phone.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
02-23-2025
03:33 PM
Submitted by
Random_One0113
on
02-23-2025
03:33 PM
I would love to see more swipe gestures available, and the tabs menu is a great place to add them.
I constantly swipe left and right to access "Tabs" and "Private tabs" thinking that they will swipe, but they don't, and that makes me sad. That's okay if it doesn't get added, I'll find another way to stop myself from doing that.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
02-20-2025
08:55 PM
Submitted by
kbeanblossom
on
02-20-2025
08:55 PM
It would be great to be able to close vertical tabs when the side bar is collapsed. Currently, the only way to do that is to right click the tab icon and click close. If there could be an X on the tab after hovering for a moment to close the tab, that would be great!
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Hi dears!
I'm new to the community and forgive me if I post this idea and someone has already suggested it.
I've abandoned Safari and I'm loving Firefox again 🙂 Sometimes when I accidentally closed a tab in Safari on my computer, I would just press Cmd + z on Mac (the same idea of Control + Z) to "undo" things and the tab would reappear.
I don't know if this type of "undo" behavior is protected by any intellectual property or royalties from Apple or Microsoft.
I would like to suggest this feature to the dev team, which I believe is easy to implement using the following strategy to solve this:
When the person closes the tab, Firefox will temporarily hide tab for a few seconds (the same flow as close tab, but using a time counter...) If the user type Control + Z or Cmd + Z (for Macs), the tab would simply be reappear. This way is simple to implement, because the resource (tab and objects) not completely "deallocated" from memory, giving the user a chance to quickly think: Wow, I closed the wrong tab, and he would have a few seconds to give the command and restore the tab to its original state. So, When user close tab, the firefox hide this tab for a few seconds before "destroy" the objects.
However, if this short time passes and the user does not use the shortcut, the tab is completely discarded from memory.
Thanks for the space and hugs from Brazil to the entire community!
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It would be awesome to be able to use regular expressions, or at least some sort of wildcards, in searches and filters in Thunderbird. That would go for all text-based search criteria, so headers, message body, etc.
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I'd appreciate it if it was possible to long-press select some text on mobile Firefox (Android for me, but ios too) and use the offline translation feature on that selection alone. Reading through a long page in a foreign language I somewhat understand, I found myself stumped by one sentence or two. I wish Firefox would let me to translate only those, and not force me to wait longer to translate the entire page. This is already possible on desktop. Please consider bringing this feature to mobile as well.
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As mentioned here https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/16769 :
On my PC I'm used to open all bookmarks in folder with one click. A have several bookmark folders for items I want to check regularly (shopping lists, menus of nearby restaurants, web addresses of network devices at my home etc.) I would like to have this option on iPad. This feature is available in desktop version of Firefox and in Android version too. Please add it to iOS/iPadOS version.
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Having the ability to open pdf's and mark them up is amazing and big thanks to the developers for this feature. However, when handling even modest size pdf files, not having the ability to search for a word is major drawback in the usability of this tool. It would be great to add this - similar to many free pdf readers.
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It would be very helpful if it was possible to enable an option whereby TB, after sending each email, prompts for a name and path where to save it as a pdf.
It would be amazing if it could work in conjunction with the really great Copy Sent to Current add-on to allow the following for each email: 1) archive the reply and the original email in a TB folder to be chosen each time and 2) save each reply as a PDF in a computer folder to be chosen each time.
thank you
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Right click and select "look up" and get a definition of a word. I'm trying to get away from Chrome. I don't like Google. I am TRYING to love Firefox, but it's missing so many basic things. You can right click and select "look up" and get a definition in every other popular browser besides Firefox. Chrome, Brave, Safari, Edge. They ALL have this feature. Why? Because it's a basic feature that should be included in every web browser. This is seriously blowing my mind that this option doesn't exist in Firefox. I searched around the web and everywhere tells me to install: "Google Dictionary (by Google)" Yeah, that doesn't exist. Or to install: "Dictionary Anywhere" Yeah, that is broken and doesn't work. The reason why people aren't using Firefox is because it is missing a TON of basic features. Like less than 3% of the internet uses Firefox. And I bet 1/2 those users are the entire Linux community. Can we please just get basic functionality without having to search around for 10 different add-ons? Please? Thanks.
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to access the compact density option you have to manually enable it in about:config. while this does allow it to be used, it is not maintained. this means that new features (like the sidebar) do not cooperate. while it may not be a super commonly used feature not having it makes it very hard to make firefox appear native on any system. for example, here is a screenshot of my firefox nightly window right now:
I run kde plasma, and i have a transparent titlebar and border for aesthetic reasons. before, it would have been too bulky to use the titlebar because titlebar + hori. tab bar + address bar + bookmark toolbar is a significant amount of my vertical space. I attempted to compensate with the compact density setting, but I ended up using floorp insead. now that we have the vertical tabs and sidebar, I can save enough vertical space that even with the bookmark tab bar I can finally use the titlebar and have firefox look like it belongs on my system. without the compact option though, I would be forced to either let firefox look like it came from a different system or use something else. the former is bad because it looks terrible, and the latter doesn't really help because the only viable options that aren't affected by the same issue are chromium-based browsers.
there is also the issue of vertical space, because firefox's over-padded ui is being stacked on top of every website's over-padded ui. for example, here is a screenshot of the minimal phone website:
between the menu at the top of the page and the preorder thing at the bottom, i've already lost a significant portion of my screen to ui. add on the address bar, and its even more. thanks to the compact density it is bearable but this issue was big enough that it almost kept me from using firefox-based browsers at all.
Having this option be supported again would be very helpful in allowing users enough customization to make firefox look right on their system and maximize use of vertical space. please bring it back so users have more control over how much space is being used on their screen and what the app looks like on their system.
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I am currently using firefox nightly for the sidebar/vertical tabs. The corner where the sidebar intersects with the address bar is rounded, but I don't want it to be. I would like to have this be optional. below is the spot I am referring to.
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Currently the sidebar has all of the buttons at the bottom with the tabs above them. I would prefer to have the order (top to bottom, ai not included bc i don't use it) be: bookmarks, history, synced tabs, vertical tab bar, settings. It would also be nice if this could be done from the existing "customize toolbar" menu, for the sake of simplicity and having settings in one place as much as possible.
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