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  It would improve both discoverability and usability. 1. Discoverability: These features, despite being older than every web browser available today, seem relatively unknown. Unfortunate because it alleviates two problems I think are probably common:    ▶ First: I grew up with myspace and like things to look how I want    ▶ Second: accessibility    ▶ The secret third one: a mix of one and two with built in dark mode that is superior to chromiums invert colors version and any third party extension dark mode. 2. Usability: Since I started complaining about this problem, then discovering Firefox already solved it, then posting how awesome a feature it is, it does seem like (from my terminally online first hand experience) more websites have started preferring the slightly different settings Firefox uses instead of other browsers - but still some that are in between or have a dark mode/high quality accessibility settings built in, or just generally don't work well with the Firefox override (like when filling in forms, configuring display settings for other websites (like this post, for example), etc). Thus, while not super common, I do find myself needing to turn the override off and on somewhat often, and it is tedious to switch tabs and would be much easier if the settings were in the sidebar. I have tried to poke around in the code to see if it was something a non-coder could figure out with the help of an AI but soon learned it was not gonna happen that way lol - but despite that it does seem like something that would be a quick thing for someone who does know what they are doing. Maybe. mostly unrelated but I can't help myself so I gotta mention it: not sure whats up with the settings page spelling it colours before and now colors but thats... interesting... also not sure whats up with the firefox colors extension but I am slightly more than slightly amused the implementation of the windows OS theming on the default Firefox theme is slightly better than what either chrome or edge has lol ... View more

Hey Firefox Team, A lot of Thai users use Firefox, and most of us use English barely. It’d be great not to rely on Google Translate anymore. Since Vietnamese and Indonesian are already supported (we all are in Southeast Asia). It would be great to see it support Thai as well 🙂 ... View more

Search keyword shortcut, e.g. `!g apples` in the address bar to search for "apples" on Google is useful, but it's saved in places.sqlite along with other data like browsing history. I use multiple profiles and would like them to have the same keyword shortcut definitions, but copying over places.sqlite across profiles does not make sense because it would also sync browsing history. The keyword shortcuts (and bookmarks) should be decoupled from browsing history--the latter is clearly specific to a profile but the former is useful across multiple profiles. Perhaps keyword shortcuts being tied to the bookmark feature adds another level of complexity--IMO it doesn't make sense the two are tied either as one doesn't necessarily want a bookmark but still want to be able to visit a site using a keyword shortcuts.   I've been searching for an extension that implements the keyword shortcut feature of Firefox but have not found one that offers this. ... View more

it would be a huge help to have apple music, spotify, youtube music, pandora, etc, accessible from the side bar, for people like me who are too lazy to open the music apps... ... View more

The new sidebar is only useful to me if it's expanded because the favicons are often the same for tabs and thus I need to see the tab title. Unfortunately, sometimes the sidebar gets collapsed and has to be expanded again. A setting to always have it exapanded (or to maintain a minimum size) would be good. ... View more

I really like the sidebar, and I think vertical tabs are amazing, even though really new. I want to make a lot of extensions like "side view" that open a website as a sidebar popup, for example a dictionary. This would be really useful. But currently the vertical tabs are in the same sidebar, so a sidebar popup will be next to the sidebar, which is not ergonomic as it squeezes the main website to the very left. See this image: Instead, 2 options would suffice for this: 1. Allow having the vertical tabs in a separate sidebar on the other side With 2 sidebars this could then look like this. Tabs are one, sidebar is the other. I think this makes sense? As the vertical tab bar does not have the default "sidebar spacer" this also looks really nice, not like 2 sidebars at all. 2. Allow addons to spawn a window on the other side The popular (even recommended!) extension "SideBerry" is basically the same as the new vertical tabs UI-wise. It integrates nicely and works well, at least for now. But with the new sidebar, Sideberry seems to use the "spawn popup window from sidebar" feature so it cannot be displayed at the same time as for example a "SideView" window would, which makes it a pretty bad tab bar. You would need to switch between them which is really bad UX. So if Sideberry could spawn a separate popup on the opposite side, it would look like this: Sideberry in this case would not be launched from the sidebar anymore but from an extension menu, or always shown. I am not sure how buggy that would be, for example the "overlay popup" or the "Orbit" extension covers part of the page and thus does not work at all. So that popup would need to restrict the usable space to render websites, so that they adapt instead of being overlaid. Regardless, any of those 2 features would be really nice! Until then I will stay with horizontal tabs which is kinda sad. ... View more

This is something that is just cosmetic, but coming from the now defunct Mail and Calendar app in Windows 10/11, I liked how that app could display a graphic of the user's choice in the reading pane when starting up, and when no message was selected in any of the inboxes, instead of just a blank block of space. I don't know if there is any extension that does this (I could not find anything). I can replicate the image on start by changing the default URL in the settings, but it is gone after selecting a message. (Edit for grammar) ... View more

Once a tab group is made, its mobility is extremely limited. Groups themselves cannot be moved, and we can only move individual tabs from the group's left to the group's right, but not visa versa without adding the tab to the group. ... View more

I think it would be interesting being able to open new tabs in inverse order. I mean: 1) When using horizontal tabs:     - Show the "Open a new tab" icon at the left of the opened tabs     - Open the new tabs (when clicking that icon) at the left of the rest of the opened tabs 2) When using vertical tabs:     - Show the "New tab" element above the opened tabs     - Open the new tabs (when clicking that element) above of the rest of the opened tabs ... View more

If scrolling to the top of the Browser til the top pulls down a animated arrow shaped circle spinning a 360, at that exact moment the Browser should refresh. A whole new initiative for bridging the gap between mobile aesthetics and mobile app design & and what we are able to develop for our desktops should be surprisingly similar to the feature above!!! To a new future for Mozilla design!!! ... View more

Dear Thunderbird Team, I am a regular user of Thunderbird and greatly appreciate its features and reliability as an email client. However, I’ve noticed that there is no built-in option to set Thunderbird to start automatically when my computer boots up. Currently, users like me have to manually configure this through operating system settings (e.g., Windows startup folder or macOS login items), which can be inconvenient and less intuitive, especially for those less familiar with technical workarounds. I’d like to suggest adding a simple toggle option in Thunderbird’s settings, such as “Start Thunderbird automatically on computer boot,” to make this process easier. This feature would offer several benefits: Convenience: Users could access their emails immediately without manually launching the app each time. Consistency: Many other applications, including email clients, offer this option, aligning with user expectations. User Control: It would empower users to decide whether they want Thunderbird to auto-start based on their needs. I understand there might be concerns about performance or security with auto-starting an application. To address this, the feature could be optional (disabled by default), allowing users to enable it only if desired. Implementation could involve integrating with standard OS startup mechanisms, which seems feasible given Thunderbird’s cross-platform support. This small addition could significantly enhance the user experience, making Thunderbird even more user-friendly. I hope you’ll consider this suggestion, and I’d be happy to see it discussed or voted on by the community. Thank you for your time and for continually improving Thunderbird! Best regards, Oasis Tian ... View more

I would like to see more pinned tabs in the collapsed (icons only) vertical tab sidebar. Currently the pinned tabs get truncated and you have to scroll through them if there are more than 4. Thank you. ... View more

I had this idea a long time ago. Sometimes on some sites the sound on the site itself is quite loud and I would not like to reduce the volume in the operating system or the volume of the browser itself. I suggest adding a function to control the audio on separate tabs where the audio is currently playing. ... View more

Not many people know, that addons with "many" users are actually manually reviewed - same as those "Recommended". I know this only because my speed dial is one of those addons: Please be aware of a recent change to AMO’s review process: All extension submissions with a significantly large number of users are now subject to human review by the add-ons review team before approval. This may, occasionally, result in minor delays publishing new versions of your extension on AMO. We’ve made this change to provide Firefox users with even greater security assurances for some of AMO’s most popular extensions. As always, we greatly appreciate your contributions to the Firefox extension ecosystem. Cheers! This is great for users security! But why is it not communicated to users? My addon listing page still shows the warning: "This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing." Also other addons with much more users shows the warning: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinterest/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/malwarebytes/ Addons security is complex, and users can't tell whether addon is safe or not. (even I wouldn't dare to install addon with "Access your data for all websites" permission, unless it has "Recommended" badge, or unless I've build it myself!) Giving users extra info about addons security would be a great help! ... View more

Just a matter of convenience... I believe on a large screen it makes more sense to have fresher tabs closer to the top, the most active area of the browser (all the controls are there), as less eye movement between them is required. ... View more

I am switching from Chrome Android to Firefox, so, this is a feature I badly miss. Please add "Double tap in textbox to select a typed word", it really helps to type and correct words efficiently. ... View more

Imagine you have really really slow internet or are downloading a somewhat big file from a rate limited host with no resume or your region has unreliable power and there are constant power failures. And then imagine you use Chrome. The incomplete files are stored as randon named files with .crx_something file extension. And you won't be under the assumption that the file is actaally a fully downloaded file when looking at it in the future. Now imagine you're using firefox. There's 0 kb files with full file names. Except it's not a full file. It's a file that was being downloaded from a unrealiable server and was cut off or maybe there was a power failure and you have this file that looks like a normal file, but is 0 kb. So, I suggest using Chrome's approach of not using original file name when downloading a file and only set the name after the file is fully downloaded. I am such a guy with such unrealiable power and internet and I constantly have to deal with this. ... View more

Hello, I just enabled the new Firefox 136’s vertical tabs and it’s already great to be able to use it natively. I was wondering though if it would be possible to have bigger icons in the future? I saw tab width and spacing being discussed but not really icon size in the "collapsed" view. My motivation is that the websites’ favicons do not fill the whole rounded square and I find it a bit of a shame to have empty space instead of just filling it with the favicon. Here is what is I currently see with the default "System theme", for a selected tab and a non-selected tab: Thank you for implementing vertical tabs and thank you for your time! ... View more

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. ... View more