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At some point, Firefox changed the old behavior of downloading opened files temporarily only, and now all files are saved and kept by default. This pollutes the user home directory with files that the user might not have wanted to keep. Even keeping the current behavior as default, having the option visible in preferences will help users understand the browser behavior. It has received sufficient backlash from the community to be considered. Since it is already in about:config, not much effort would go into officially supporting it, but it would guarantee that the option does not quietly disappear. Now, users unsatisfied with this behavior need to search in the internet for a solution that is not guaranteed to exist in futures releases, when it could be another checkbox in the Files and Applications section in Preferences. Examples of the community take and confusion over this matter: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/705045/open-files-without-download-them-in-firefox https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78871696/open-in-firefox-should-save-file-in-temporary-folder-but-saves-it-in-my-downlo https://www.askvg.com/tip-force-firefox-to-start-downloads-in-temp-folder-again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1941hi2/firefox_downloading_files_to_default_download/ https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/unhide-browser-download-start-downloads-in-tmp-dir-and-add-to/idi-p/45899 https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ww0ms1/why_is_firefox_both_opening_and_downloading/ https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/unhide-browser-download-start-downloads-in-tmp-dir-and-add-to/idi-p/45899 and many more. ... View more

The new Tab Groups are incredible. One suggestion: please add a new input field below the name and the color on group creation and editing, for optional group description. When you hover the mouse above the group tab, you got a group name in the tooltip, just a copy of the group name already shown. If the new field is not empty, it can show the description instead. For example, I'd like to replace a tooltip "FF" for my "FF" tab group to be "Jasper Fforde biography", and I can't do it now. Thank you. ... View more

Addresses with a "plus" element in the left hand side, a.k.a. sub-addresses, are effectively the same as the address without (the "naked" address), e.g. A.Non+Mozilla@example.com is equivalent to A.Non@example.com. Thunderbird should handle this intelligently, including some or all of associate any "plus" address with the corresponding account and/or contact, display the "plus" address as the "naked" address with a visually distinct label containing the "plus" element, reply to email sent to a "plus" address From that "plus" address, add an interface to simplify adding, removing or changing a "plus" element in the composer, and automate tagging and moving messages to folders based on the "plus" element. Handling replies may be tricky as senders will sometimes strip the name and change the case of the address. Ideally the address would be constructed as configured for the account with the addition of the plus element which can be easily edited in the composer. For instance, a reply to a.non+mozilla@example.com would be From: Another Non <A.Non+mozilla@example.com>  with the composer providing an easy method to change mozilla to Mozilla (or anything else). ... View more

I'm using vertical tabs in the sidebar. I have about 200 tabs opened, so they don't fit in the screen height. When I'm near the top of the tab list and close a tab, the tabs below the closed tab move up and the tabs above don't move. This is the expected behavior for me. When I'm scrolled all the way to the bottom of the list and close a tab, the tabs below don't move, and the closed tab is replaced with the tab above. This keeps tripping me up, because I often try to quickly close a bunch of related tabs by clicking in the same place several times and instead close unrelated tabs above. I'd like the closed tab to always be replaced by the tab below it, at least while I'm actively closing tabs ... View more

I strongly recommend that you quickly add built-in text-to-speech synthesis to the browser, similar to Microsoft Edge. The quality of text-to-speech available through extensions isn't great – it sounds robotic. In this regard, Microsoft is significantly ahead of you. ... View more

The latest Firefox version (138.0.1 for me) introduced the new feature to open the collapsed vertical tabs when the mouse hover over the tabs. However, this only switches between the collapsed and expanded view, which in itself would not sound problematic, but when all the sidebar tools enabled, the tools are arranged vertically when closed, and horizontally when opened, even when hovering over the tabs with the mouse, causing the tab that the user hovers over jump out of the cursor, leading to a disorienting user experience. The jump worsens when there are pinned tabs too. The following image demonstrates these two stages (showing only the tools, that is the bottom of the sidebar): What I suggest, is to make these tabs/tools use up as much vertical space when collapsed when they would use up when expanded, only when expanding by hovering with the mouse cursor is enabled, as to preserve the current behavior when the mouse hovering feature is turned off. So for instance, when in collapsed, only the sidebar configuration gear is visible, but when expanded, all the tools appear next to each other, in a single line. But if there are so much tools, that the expanded state would take up two rows of buttons (I think this is more applicable to pinned tabs), then the one more tool would appear above the gear, that otherwise would be the first in that row. This could be extrapolated to 3 and more rows. This would make it so, when the user hovers over a tab, pinned tab or tool, the expansion of the tab bar would not push a different tab, pinned tab or tool under the cursor, making the user accidentally click on a different tab, pinned tab or tool, frustrating them in the process. And when the pinned tab or tool isn't in view, they would hover over the tab bar, and then select the one they desire. I don't think this is an important update, but definitely a welcomed one. ... View more

Nice the new Tab Groups, but like to pin them on the left side like normal tabs can. Hope you can fix this 🙂 ... View more

Dear Thunderbird Team, I have been using Thunderbird for many months and greatly appreciate the free, open-source email software. Recently, I learned that only about 3% of users donate, and I wanted to contribute a small amount, such as €2. However, I noticed that the minimum donation is €20 for a one-time contribution or €9 monthly. I believe that many users, like myself, use Thunderbird because it’s free and often have limited financial resources. A minimum donation of €20 may be too high for some, discouraging them from donating at all. If you introduce the option to donate as little as €1, more users would likely be willing to contribute. A lower entry barrier would probably increase overall donation rates and bring in more support. I hope you consider this suggestion to further engage the community. Thank you for your excellent work on Thunderbird! Best regards Christer Haeberli ... View more

Groups appear to be great however if you're working in several and opening and closing tabs at a decent rate many would be outside the group as you `ctrl+t` to open a new tab it is not inside the group.  Being able to open a new tab in the current group would seem to be core to moving fast while keeping things grouped. ... View more

At the moment, Mozilla Firefox does not respect the Default Printer setting used by the operating system. On all versions of Microsoft Windows, there is a Default Printer setting that is set on a per user basis.  Most applications respect this setting when the user does not select a printer.  Mozilla Firefox does not do this.  Instead, it remembers the last print job it did and uses those settings. Please fix this so that Mozilla Firefox behaves like other applications. ... View more

That blocks the system entirely. You can't alt-tab quickly and won't see anything that wants to come to forefront. So on top should switch off, when going full screen. ... View more

If you pin a tab inside a tab group that tab leaves the group and appears like normal left on the tab bar. Just pining tabs inside tab groups would be very lovely and awesome! Btw: pining tab groups would be lovely aswell! ... View more

I would like to see the media player controller as a Firefox tool above the AI chat bot on the sidebar. It's very comfortable to switch music or pause videos while browsing the internet.   ... View more

When you right click a tab, I'd love is there was an option to copy tab text so that you can easily share the names of websites without having to manually copy the whole title. Firefox   ... View more

Add the ability to assign a container to a tab group. ... View more

Recently, the iOS app has been given the ability to generate a password when it sees a password prompt. But the browser doesn't always detect this. Firefox on PCs and smartphones should be able to generate passwords in the password tab. It would also be nice to be able to add more URLs and notes in the password tab, but password generation should be the priority. ... View more

More Speed ​​Dial customization options: 1. Increase the size of the icons. 2. Select either a screenshot of the site or an icon. 3. Disable the search bar and the Mozilla logo. This will increase the space for the icons on small monitors. 4. Folders/groups on the speed dial panel.   Add the ability to quickly save a site to your speed dial:   ... View more

There's a message about only installing add-ons if you trust them, but there's no way to actually review the add-on. You can't even download it and open it in your archive manager without first installing and running it in Firefox. Add-ons have their code implicitly readable by their nature. The website should have an option to explore the files and read the contents. ... View more

Currently, there is no easy way to subscribe to updates of all subfolders in the mail client included into the "parent" folder. File -> Subscribe -> I have to click through all the subfolders one by one to renew my subscription. It's inconvenient and time-consuming. It is necessary to make sure that when you mark a subscription to new emails in the "parent" folder, the subscription to updates of all subfolders occurs automatically. #thunderbird ... View more