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Some background first: Many countries and organizations issue smart cards that carry a certificate that can be used to authenticate the user. To log in, a service implements an https endpoint that asks for a client certificate. The client certificate is used only on this one endpoint to log in. After receiving the certificate, it creates a usual session that runs without the client certificate. This is very nice since it is free for service providers. Technically very simple. And for the user very safe. If the smart card gets lost, the certificate can be revoked. There is no fear of loss of access to an account because authorities verify the person and issue new card to regain access. The subject identifier has a serial number to identify the user even in the case that the subject has been issued a new card after name has been changed (marriage etc.). And use of the card stays between me and the service provider. Authorities do not know where it is used. I wish more services accepted these cards so I could be me at the services. You can see an example how it works at https://dvv.fi/en/test-the-use-of-a-certificate. You may not have a card, but you find everything up to that point there. Documentation is also close by. You sometimes need to access these services over mobile phone. Mobile phones do not have slot for smart card reader, but fortunately they often have NFC and the card can also be used over NFC. It of course requires the card be held against the phone when being accessed. And selecting one of the many certificates on the card. And typing a PIN to get the card to use the private key. But since the service asks for the certificate only once during login, there is only this one moment during the one TLS handshake accessing the endpoint where this acrobatics need to be performed. Curious mind can find the identification in production at https://www.suomi.fi/frontpage and clicking the Identification. The endpoint used for asking the certificate is at https://kortti.tunnistautuminen.suomi.fi/certcheck. I found a list of European countries where this would be useful at https://www.readid.com/blog/european-identity-cards. I believe India also has issued some cards, but am not sure if they would work with this. I expect it to become more common day by day. Has some potential in number of users. ... View more

I switch off the main checkbox "Shortcuts" because I want a certain amount of privacy (people looking over my shoulder not seeing where I have been). I still want to support Firefox with "Sponsored shortcuts" being shown and any revenue that may be generated from this. That is not possible as long as it is a sub-item of the main checkbox "Shortcuts". Maybe consider separating the two, so that people such as I can continue getting the Ads but still preserve their privacy? Or reversing them, so that the Ads are shown at any rate and I can opt out of places that I have visited? ... View more

Hello Firefox browser developers, I think Firefox is currently expanding the picture-in-picture mode of video websites to support adding subtitles and barrages to the picture-in-picture mode of video websites. I am a user who uses Firefox browser to browse Bilibili, but I found that Firefox browser does not support Bilibili's subtitles and barrage functions during the process of using it. Barrage is a very important feature on Bilibili, and it is the reason why many users choose this website to watch videos. I hope you can adapt to the barrage and subtitle functions in the picture-in-picture mode of the Bilibili website as soon as possible, thank you very much! ... View more

Firefox browser should by default have all telemetry as an opt in option or have zero telemetry within the browser on first start. I understand this could hinder the Firefox development team from making decisions about new features, etc, but some changes in regards to telemetry usage could help promote Firefox's reputation as privacy-friendly. Or Firefox should have less dependence on their telemetry measurements and focus more on general community feedback (ie: this Mozilla Connect page, support pages, social media posts, or even emailed poll questions asking users what they want to see in browser, etc, etc.)  I think a lesser importance on the telemetry data and more community feedback and public discussions would help better Firefox's features and redesigns but also help Firefox/Mozilla's privacy mission. ... View more

A great feature would be the ability to swipe up from the tab icon from the current tab to quickly switch either between the previous tab or a selection of last used tabs. ... View more

This especially on iOS (don't know how things are in Android), since I hate it when I click a search result or open a pasted link, and an app opens up when I just wanted to view the page. For example DuckDuckGo has this in their iOS browser as a simple toggle. That can be used as a reference point on how I'd hope this to work. ... View more

Currently, when you update Firefox, it updates the application, but it does not update the version no. packaged with it. For example, if I run `winget upgrade` in Windows (WinGet is the Windows Package Manager), It will show the following output: And it does so even if Firefox is running the latest version. Regards ... View more

Hi. I have a need to only filter messages on a weekend (for example) because my business is closed. When this happens, I would like to be able to auto-reply with a message template on the weekends or when the week days I stipulate I am closed. Right now, I can only specify to filter on a specific date or age. ... View more

It would be great to store the value of a checkbox to a bookmark, which could automatically open the related bookmark in a Private Window. Presently, one has to know in advance/remember it and must manually right-click the bookmark to select the "open in private window" option. ... View more

Not quite sure how this would work, but I'm imagining a browser setting or flag that users could set to prefer low bandwidth media consumption. Something like "prefers-reduced-motion", but "prefers-low-bandwidth" In the case of images, it might choose the lowest image in a `srcset`, maybe, regardless of the browser window / agent's parameters. In streaming media, it could prompt or analyze the option to download vs stream in instances where downloading would be advantageous for minimizing bandwidth / energy consumption. ... View more

Currently in full screen mode, toolbar is always 'inserted' on top when mouse hovers and all the page content gets reshaped, resized constantly which looks ridiculous especially on youtube and its video player.. Much better and more functional display would be to keep page full screen as it is without reshaping or touching anything and just overlay toolbar over the top (without animation?), like it was done in windows 10 with taskbar auto hide feature Regards ... View more

Much like on android this is a must. synced passwords with my firefox account ios style bottom bar (and multiple tabs like android) I think with these 2 features I would have no reason to use safari or the regular Firefox. I don’t get why these aren’t a thing as they already exist! ... View more

We should show the saved username in the order of frequently used, instead of alphabetical order. This user can quickly access the recently username . For example, I'm using TestCompany user, I logged in on my local host, then made some changes in the code and rerun, I have to scroll all the way to bottom to select TestComapny user, if you have lot of saved user it is bit annoying. Thanks ... View more

Hi, I like the new Address Book in Thunderbird 102! It would be really nice if it would support Gravatar account images. Is this something that would be possible to add to Thunderbird. I could imagine allowing direct entry of images or a selection of well known avatar sites as well as a way to enter a new avatar site manually. I have seen other suggestions related to using avatars. This could be generalized so it could be used in multiple places, not just in the Address Book. Thanks! ... View more

I thought Firefox had a bug because it crashed and froze the computer. So how did I fix the problem? Merely by deleting Temporary Files. After that it was working fine again. It started out loading pages slow and became gradually more sluggish, and I kept thinking it was Firefox. I switched to a different browser, and the same thing happened. So how do you delete Temporary Files? C:\Documents and Settings\Name-of-User\Local Settings\Temp... Delete the Temporary Files at that location. I wish Firefox would incorporate a Menu Selection to do that for you. ... View more

Firefox is #3 memory hog on my Samsung phone, at 478MB. Why can't development team make the changes to let users move app & data to external (micro SD) storage? Here's a few of my installed apps that DO support this: Google Photos | Pocket  | PBS | Stocard | VLC | Netflix version 103 on Android 9 ... View more

As the title state, I think it's better not to hard code the menu item history, and use about:config so we can configure how much the history shown to us, as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306752 bug still isn't fixed til today... It's hardcoded to 15 item only as stated on the code. http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... egexp=true http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... MENU_ITEMS Please allow common user to show the history based on their own configuration to more than 15 using about:config. alt+s is the king of history, hurrah! ... View more

I have a lot of images saved in the collections groups but it's hard to know which is which when all I can see are urls being able to change the names of the things we have in the collections group would help with that  ... View more

I keep all my browsing history. Frequently I have the question "how did I stumble upon site X?". I can go back through my history and see, aha, that I visited site Y just before my first visit to X. This is handy because site Y may be a site with a lot of useful links like X. However, if I now visit site Y again, the history list removes that past entry of site Y and keeps only my current visit. This breaks the connection between X and Y. Any time in the future I want to find how I got to site X, I'll be stymied. The more useful links which site Y has, the more likely it is (in the current Firefox) that I'll lose my ability to find it by that sort of history search: each time I visit site Y, all previous connections are lost. I would like a checkbox for "please have browsing history keep every visit to a page". This would help me on a near-daily basis. ... View more