Inspired by https://github.com/classvsoftware/under-new-management it seems like the browser itself ought to watch out for extensions changing ownership, and give users the option to decide whether they want to keep using it. This appears to be a very active form of abuse right now, where extension authors are inundated with buyout offers from sleazy people/companies who will add in tracking or whatever. Perhaps this could take the form of automatically revoking all permissions on an ownership change, and re-requesting?
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Every time I open Thunderbird I have to input my master password. In order to do that I need to unlock the local keyring (KeePassXC in my case) and copy/paste the password. KPXC like many other keyrings implement the FdoSSP (Gnome keyring and KWallet do the same). In this case the master key could be automatically retrieved by Thunderbird when started by querying the database via DBus. Can you implement it? In case an OS doesn't support the SSP like Windows or any Linux distro where the service is not exposed, then Thunderbird could simply ask the password with the usual prompt. In this case there won't be any breakage for those users. If the OS provides such a service, the password prompt could add an opt-in check-box which says "Do you want to store the master password in your keyring?". If checked, then the password is store there and future Thunderbird instances can automatically retrieved it.
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I still miss the ability to add a custom search engine in Firefox Desktop, which has been there in Firefox for Android for years. Kinda weird that Android has an option the desktop version lacks of. Or do I need to enable dev mode or something in the config? Clicking "find more search engines" only leads to the addons page. On android however, you can add your own site and you can then directly search it from the address bar, for example I added https://www.m.dict.cc/?s=%s to quickly lookup dict.cc for translations, it directly searches for the word I type in.
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Before Firefox Daylight (79, fall 2020), the homescreen for the Android Version of Firefox consisted of a few customizable tabs, including Bookmarks and History. From daylight onward, the only homepage option was "Top Sites", with the option to both pin specific sites and prevent "recently visited sites" from appearing. As of Nightly 102, however, it is impossible to disable "frequently visisted sites", leaving the home page top sites as a hodgepodge of both pinned and "frequently visited". Top Sites can be disabled, but that will disable pinned and frequently visited alike.
Currently, the closest equivalent is "Recent Bookmarks", although this is not nearly as customizable as desired.
Some ideas.
1. Return the option to disable " frequent sites" without disabling top sites.
2. Further develop "recent bookmarks" into something more customizable, so that you could pin, for example, desktop bookmarks to the homepage.
3. Allow extensions to override the homepage like on Desktop, allowing for configurations developed by the community and users.
The foremost option is the easiest to consider, and would please me well enough. The second option would please pre-daylight users who long for the older workflow. The latter would be dependent on extension permissions and support on android, but would encourage user participation and customization.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
05-03-2022
10:26 AM
Submitted by
ansiklopedici
on
05-03-2022
10:26 AM
"Customize homepage" button is useful for introducing the feature to edit Homepage. But, after the Homepage is fully edited, the button becomes unnecessary.
Idea: Add option to disable the "Customize homepage" button.
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Status:
Trending idea
Submitted on
07-22-2022
04:05 AM
Submitted by
Torbins
on
07-22-2022
04:05 AM
Mouse is still a king on the desktop. But for some strange reason, with every new release, Firefox UI is less and less suitable for usage with mouse. Just to name a few recent issues:
Hiding scrolls, that a hard to find and grab, when you need them
Huge tabs and other UI elements. They are wasting screen space and do not add any additional comfort.
Browser is not friendly to a tipical mouse gestures. For example you need to click on an item in main menu, instead of just hovering over it. Tab overflow menu does not support drag and drop.
Menus have lost icons, which have been a great way to speed up navigation.
All of that should be fixed in default UI behavior, and touch friendly features moved to some special UI mode.
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Hi,
In the same way as bookmarking a web page, it would be useful (for me at least) to save (and load) complete sessions with a titled name for each. aka: "favorites sessions" folder in the history menu, for example When you study on several (many) pages of one topic and have to switch to another completely different topic with many web pages again, and, again, two days later, put back the pages you studied before in the state they were in without searching through favorites, subpages, etc.
just a suggestion
Best,
Rudy
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Regex checkbox in "Find In Page" tool. It would be cool for power users to be able to search text patterns instead of exact matches. It can be limited to EcmaScript implementation and have a warning tooltip about performance, but I think power users will be glad to see that they can search specific patterns on some pages (some codes with variable characters, multiple variations of phrases, different wordings, etc).
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Please either add Perplexity AI as one of the search engine options, or as an official browser extension. Chrome already has the latter.
Thank you.
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Can't you add profiles and a profile switcher like on Firefox for Windows on your Firefox mobile versions? I got a dozen profiles on my computer, but I don't want to install the alternative versions of Firefox just to add at least one other profile on my cellphone!
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Hello,
Many of us using bunch of folders in bookmarks toolbar, why cant we just change the icon of the folder, when we click the "Edit folder" button instead of just name..
This feature could be really nice and useful also can be efficient because it's easier to find folders by just looking their icon over reading names.
Thank you for reading and support.
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Hey,
since 111.0 the new unified extensions button as a fixed place in the toolbar. I don't like it there and would want to remove it/move it to the overflow menu. Please make that possible again.
Also the menu needs to be easier/quicker to understand. Currently in german it is this way (used on yt as example) and you need to read way to much to understand what is going on:
At a glance all that looks fairly similar and doesn't provide the user with any benefits. I would suggest to change the current display system to something more practical. Add Categories with the applicalable permissions and just list the extensions below that with their icon and name.
Example:
Can always read and edit this website:
Blocktube
Stylus
...
Needs permission to ...:
CommentBlock
Has no permissions on this website:
AntiGameReborn
....
That way you would always know at a glance which extensions have/want/don't have permission and wouldn't need to read every text on an unsorted list.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
04-05-2023
10:08 AM
Submitted by
andrebatchelder
on
04-05-2023
10:08 AM
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
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FirefoxAndroid should get MATERIAL YOU colour theme based on wallpaper or website for Android 12,13.. plus it needs "material You" icon.
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Currently extensions are arranged/lit up by whether they have or need permissions to the current site. I had assumed the greyed out extensions were add-ons that were disabled.
Maybe the Unified Extensions feature could replicate the most useful features of the Add-ons Manager functionality (which is a separate, clunky tab).
1. List ALL add-ons, including disabled ones (just like Add-ons Manager, except in alphabetical order. This is because you can't Ctrl+F to Find an extension in Add-on Manager).
2. Each extension could have a enable/disable toggle. This would make it easy for testing/tinkering, and make it clear and accessible.
3. Change or remove the lengthy/confusing "can always read and change data on this site" etc. Maybe it could be an icon instead? I personally don't find it that useful.
Artist's rendition:
Thoughts?
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It would be nice if Firefox synced shortcuts so users don't need to readd them each time they sync on a new computer.
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Hi,
Presearch aims to become the first decentralised search engine that both rewards its users and respects their privacy, as opposed to Google.
In 2021 Google was required to make Presearch a default option for all new Android devices in Europe and the UK to break its monopoly. Would Mozilla also consider making Presearch a default option for Firefox? Thanks
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I have a suggestion for Thunderbird. It would be nice to have Thunderbird allow a new Compose Message window to show up in a Thunderbird tab instead of a free floating window as it does now. I would make this a user configurable item in perhaps Preferences, where the user can select whether he/she wants to have each new Compose Message window be a free floating window or a Thunderbird tab. Thanks for considering this.
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Howdy,
Ancient Firefox user who went Chrome for a long time and have returned as of yesterday. Happy to be back, but routinely frustrated that textbox shortcuts like ctrl-b and ctrl-i on certain (but not all!) websites, per Firefox programming, triggers the bookmark sidebar / page info (respectively). In decades of computer use, these shortcuts have always always always meant applying bold and italic to highlighted text, making Firefox's functionality completely counterintuitive. I can honestly say I have never once used these shortcuts to intentionally pull up bookmarks or page info.
Having had a look around online it seems that the only ways to turn off these Firefox functions are either writing some javascript personally, or installing an extension which is not supported by Mozilla. As neither of these are especially palatable choices, and the existing regime is in defiance of 40ish years of keyboard convention, I'd like to propose the simplest of solutions: an option in Firefox's settings to turn off keyboard shortcuts.
That way, folks have the choice. If, like me, you find the defiance of keyboard convention frustrating, you'll have an option to turn it off. Or alternatively, if you like Firefox's keyboard functions as-is, you don't have to do anything at all, and things stay the same. Everybody wins.
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