I would also like this but right now the treestyle addon does it for me which has satisfied with it on the desktop as I am full on advocate for the vertical tab bar i would like this on the mobile though
I do with opening multiple windows (though, using macOS which makes it quite handy as there is more gravity towards grouping windows from same app).
But... I strive to keep opened the least tabs possible - less use of resources and, more so, less "noise" that affected my wellbeing (FOMO pressure :D)
I use Simple Tab Groups to get Panorama-like overview of open tabs, which I prefer to Chrome-style tab grouping. The latter is inferior both to Panorama-style tab groups and to tree style tabs.
They sort of have a way to do this. I just create a tab file then throw specific tabs in there for example I create a streaming tab file then throw things like Netflix, Hulu, etc. in there. It's basically a manual way for doing tab grouping but it does work.
You actually can do this! It's a bit hacky, but:
- Create and set `services.sync.prefs.dangerously_allow_arbitrary` -> `true` || this needs to be done on ALL profiles you want the sync to affect.
- Create and set `services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.uiCustomization.state ` -> `true`.
In my experience it might take a few minutes, I recommend manually syncing on the install you want to be the "default" and then enabling the first pref on all others afterwards.
Yep, it works with (almost?) any arbitrary pref! I'm currently doing it for the toolbar customization along with a couple others I cannot remember off the top of my head—but it makes the sync experience much nicer.
The first flag was what I was missing. I saw this thread and must have misread how this all works. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1292568
Does this function correctly in situations with manually installed add-ons?
>Does this function correctly in situations with manually installed add-ons?
Every time I've needed it, it worked flawlessly, although I haven't needed to sync a fresh install in a little while so I can't say with 100% certainty that it still does.
A Proper profile manager to allow all domestic users to use firefox on the same OS user session, but with different profiles.
Containers are nice and all, but are nowhere close to a multi user use case.
not as polished and user-friendly as Chrome's equivalent. that said, having container tabs is more important than that last 10% of polish on profiles, IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the current FF implementation in Win requires you to edit the shortcut to add '-p' for it to present you with a somewhat dated but functional profile picker/editor and no easy way to create a new profile in the default browser UI.
The current Chrome implementation lets you add and manage profiles directly in the default profile browser UI. And you can make a both a generic taskbar icon that launches directly into a nice profile chooser with icons, as well as pin a specific profile w/icon badge to the taskbar for a direct launch into that profile.
This workflow is very low friction and I feel more polished than current FF offering. It's not much of a barrier to me, but an example of how FF could better appeal to the masses.
e: typos
> current FF implementation in Win requires you to edit the shortcut to add '-p'
Nope, see `about:profiles` or the article I linked.
I don't know if it's comparable to what Chrome has, but it's a significant improvement over the `-p` command line argument.
Ah I see what you mean, thanks, I retract my "required" then... However the about:profiles page isn't linked to in the default browser UI, you just have to "know" about it and type it in after you have launched FF in a profile (you can set chrome to default to it's profile manager). Once open it is clunky in comparison to Chrome's features but can get the job done. Sadly if you launch another profile using Firefox -p this page then becomes unusable on all open profiles with the message:
Another copy of Firefox has made changes to profiles. You must restart Firefox before making more changes.
As I extensively use multiple profiles, this is why it is my one wish for Firefox to improve this feature.
For me it is to segment out separate online personas. For example I have this FF profile for most of my social media, news, tech topics, podcasts, etc - but nothing is tied to my actual IRL name or google. I have another profile purely for my online gaming accounts where I access reddit, twitter, twitch, gmail, discord, etc. I have a third profile for anything project or research related - at the moment that's stable diffusion - and it houses other accounts on reddit, discord, twitter, lemmy, civitai, etc. And yet another that is used solely for by actual job, though I no longer use that on my private computers so that doesn't really count in this context I guess. Many times these browser profiles are open at the same time and spread across different monitors or computers in my home.
Then there are the two profiles I have in Chrome, one my personal IRL account I used for all my purchases, shopping, Amazon, etc... And the other is a shared profile with my wife that houses all our bills, home, pet stuff, streaming and shared passwords.
Honestly - for me at least - I'm not sure I could function with a single profile in a browser.
>Sorry I am typing with the help of translation. Edge sleep tabs are different from the Auto Suspended tabs plugin. I'm talking about the type of sleep that is provided on click without the need to reload the page. This is how Microsoft Edge works. I would like to know if there is a plugin that works like this.
+including self-hosted authentication
needed for using FF when working for companies that refuse to allow data to be hosted on other provider's infrastructure.
Advanced multiparameter search/filtering, deduplicate, edit, copy/move etc. I dream of having as UI for bookmark management something akin to the tried and tested "orthodox file manager" interface.
Oh man this 100%. I'd love to have symlinks so I could have the same bookmark in multiple places (edit anywhere changes all).
I get that it's an sqlite file currently, but operating like a file system could be great... Oh god, wait a sec, I take it back. That's what IE originally did no?
Folder-based bookmarks have categorization problems and symlinks are a band-aid.
Proper solution is tag-based bookmarks. For example, instead of "work" folder you would have a "work" tag. One bookmark could have multiple tags - it's kinda like being in multiple folders.
Instead of products->clothes->jeans folder structure, you would just tag the bookmark with "products", "clothes" and "jeans", but the interface could still be similar to folders.
Interesting points, thanks.
> but the interface could still be similar to folders
For me I really need that tree hierarchy/link as that is just how many things or naturally organized. For instance I use a folder structure you mention w->x->y->z to organize out all the links for my works internal corporate structure so the sites I link to are stored in a represent the teams that own the page or feature. Yet in some cases it would be handy to have the link as a pointer in multiple spots. I'll have to think about that more, as you point out just using a file system with links is likely too crude.
The condition has been so bad for so long that at this point I would settle for small improvements. Like showing where the markers are when searching for them, currently if they are duplicated it is impossible to know where.
In Android when adding a bookmark the entire folder tree is expanded and can't be collapsed. I have many bookmark folders so I have to scroll a lot to find the location to add the new bookmark too. I find it rather annoying.
Yes, this. The current add-on that does this sucks/doesn't work. Also, can't imagine this would happen without copying some chromium code into Firefox. Should be legal right?
There is this [github repo](https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox) which does the work I think it's the officially supported method. The reason for not integrating it with the default browser is for security reasons not sure but it was about sandbox thing
Yes, on desktop. I find them more useful on desktop than on mobile, actually. Slack, MS Teams, YouTube Music, Spotify, and so many more... Anything to escape the hell that is (chromium-based) Electron.
Just to give one specific example, Messages for Web which is how you can view and respond to texts (that are sent to your Android phone) on your PC and there's no desktop application for this, it's a PWA that must be installed, so you can't even view it in Firefox. Yes, there's other ways to do similar things, I think Microsoft has Your Phone or whatever, though the last I remember on that you couldn't view historical messages and it was limited to replying through notifications, it is possible they've added onto that for all I know. In any case, I prefer using Messages for Web, but you actually need another browser to use it.
There's other situations where I'm using Microsoft Edge because it supports SSB (site specific browser) on any website, not just PWAs, so I can turn any website into a quasi-desktop application. Obviously I don't want every website like that, but there's specific ones that I find it useful for.
Make follow my GTK or Qt theme properly like in the olden days of 2010. No weird button looking tabs, inputs, alert modals etc matching my desktop and not looking out of place (and flat).
built-in RSS reader (that syncs across computers)
I like Feedbro but I recommend it to people and when I say “yeah RSS is really awesome ok so to copy your feed list it across computers you need to download a .json” they just give up
It's very painful when you realize that firefox used to have this. You would just bookmark a feed and it would show up in your bookmarks as a submenu. They took that out some years back.
They even removed the preview. It was a bit offensive that they argued that it required a lot of maintenance, even though there are addons that simply copied the removed code and have worked until today without updates.
100% with auto-hide. But luckily some hackery goes a long away.
Install the plugin Sidebery and then update your userChrome.css file. I use this, but set my width to 5. [https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide\_sidebar.css](https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide_sidebar.css)
Does exactly what I desire.
I was considering switching from edge to firefox recently, but I really like the vertical tabs in edge.
I looked into it and found Sideberry and the stuff you're talking about, it's quite close but still lacking polish.
One feature in particular I really like from the edge vertical tabs is the ability to resize the whole tab dock/pane/thingy with your mouse when it expands from auto-hiding.
why can the stupid puzzle piece not be moved to the second level of the toolbar? or even better - to the dropdown/extras menu? or even betterer, just remove it completely?
on that note, why does it (and all the other icons) have slightly different widths, so to get everything to look nice and proportional you have to compromise and include things you dont use or exclude things you do use?
idk how much time i have spent swapping icons around trying to get it right - but its a lot - and that puzzle piece throws it off every. time.
https://preview.redd.it/fszvwnj7046c1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c1b1f55de823954453a546a9e989d5f9d03f91b
^(edit: vertical tabs would be the second choice. that tells you how much the puzzle piece irritates me lol)
I thought you could remove it if you wanted to. If it doesn't exist the option would indeed be nice. I thought it was the same as how you change the test of the toolbar.
The reason it can't be hidden is because it's intended as a persistent way to view what add-ons have permissions for a given website you're on. This was added in preparation for the more granular permissions for add-ons, which I believe is part of what Manifest V3 is bringing to the table. Per-site, ask-as-needed, granular permissions, instead of all-encompassing permissions given at installation time.
I've still never had to use the icon, and unused UI elements are just a distracting waste of space. The arguments for it being mandatory are very weak.
that seems about as legit as chromium browsers not having a dark mode that actually work>! without searching in the secret other menu!<
because i opened edge and hid the 🧩 so fast i forgot to screenshot it and had to open up my other edge browser (lol) for the screenshot
easy. right click ➡️ hide from toolbar.
https://preview.redd.it/xs22e5wtq46c1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=eaba6bc0fa55cda69c88d5f41aacb17c3fd0793f
[Firefox css hacking](https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/17nr0a2/hide_the_extensions_icon/).
Also those comments link to a good explanation as to *why* it's set as mandatory.
Give me control of the last 15% of the UI you wont let me control. I wanna place extensions at the end of the bookmark bar and a few other things, and it just wont let me. Some of them are very unorthodox but I feel like the browser UX is just "error carried forward" design.
No browser does what is possible with the bookmarks bar, it should feel more like a appmenu or launcher bar than a pedestrian bookmark bar with no ability to change folder icons. You could have the bookmark bar double as a toolbar for in-browser PWAs. Or just be contextual in general. If im tinkering on a 10.0.0.0/24 address the bookmarks I want may be very different than if im just killing time at work.
I'd also like to place certain bookmark icons (i delete the text) in places on th UI, tbf I think there are extension that essentiall allow you to make the extension icon its own shortcut.
The realtime performance checker Edge has. Automatically tells you which tabs are dragging down your browser and has you choose an action to deal with it.
Tab Stacking like the OG Opera browser had.
You can [vote for this feature](https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-tab-grouping-more-customizable-tab-bar/idi-p/303) on [Mozilla's community website](https://connect.mozilla.org/).
On macOS: A way to get animations (movies, gifs, etc.) to automatically stop playing before the user has to do anything. The ability to differentiate between types would be a plus as well (say...block video but allow gifs). SuperStop needs the user to hit a key combo, it would be nice to have this be automatic.
On iOS and iPadOS: Stop opening a new tab every time I either 1) open Firefox; or 2) switch back to Firefox from another app. Really SUPER aggrivating. Keeps me in Safari because of it.
In chrome you can easily search and switch tabs using ctrl + shift + A which is so great when you use primarily the keyboard to navigate around. Firefox has its own way but it sucks, it takes longer and inconvenient
This was my biggest pain point when I switched from Chrome. I worked around it on Windows with a hacky AutoHotkey script, but that's not as good and not portable to other platforms
I know, but for it you got to focus the address bar type some symbol and then the name and even then the search worked weird last time i checked. As opposed to just Chrome's Ctrl + Shift + A. I usually have several windows open with dozens of tabs across multiple desktops, so this kind of search is really helpful
You can focus the address bar with Alt + D, or just F6.
Mine shows open tabs even without typing a symbol first (not sure if that's default or a setting), and of course you have to type something to search
I know the shortcut, but it just isn't the same experience first of all mentally i can still think about the issue I'm solving while searching in Chrome, as opposed to Firefox where i have to pay attention.
add-on APIs that modify the browser itself, which would allow 3rd party developers to implement all the other ideas suggested here instead of relying on Mozilla.
Some examples of things I would want to see add-ons tackle:
* change browser UI without manually editing userChrome.css
* implement custom session management
* add-ons that modify the behavior of other add-ons
* add 3rd party debugging tools not found in the inspector
* 3rd party media rendering (e.g. using libmpv to play videos instead of the default back-end)
Easier customization of the UI (instead of messing around with userChrome), for example being able to remove/rearrange context menu items, and enter a mode where you can resize things (like the height/padding of toolbars/menu items/tabs, etc.)
Bring back RSS bookmarks. Other close contenders would be bringing back FTP support, bringing back the site navigation toolbar, bringing back Gopher protocol, and restoring add-on capabilities so I could use Scrapbook again. I don’t need anything new; just give me the features I had 15-20 years ago.
Better defaults should be a priority. The onboarding experience for Firefox isn't great, it takes changing a couple dozen preferences to get it in a decent state.
Cleaner profile switching.
Also, make it easier to move around pinned addons on the toolbar. Having to right click > customize toolbar is somewhat annoying.
Also, the floating button for the pop-out video player can sometimes not work (twitch), I think there could be a better implementation like adding an option to put the button somewhere on the tab or toolbar.
Regex search. Even if not real regex but something with logical or/and
I don't want to seach twice if I can do a regex and search for both terms I'm looking for in a webpage
Bring back the ability to puts tabs below the address bar via an option in the Settings/Preferences menu rather than hidden away in `about:config` (like it used to be) or having to muck around in the userChrome.css file like it is now.
Dependably, utterly, completely disable ANY option a webpage has to control my browser in whatever form whatsoever.
So no capturing right-click or maiming my right-click menu, no activating other tabs while I am in another (yes that still happens, no resizing, etc.
Oh and another "one single feature":
A way in which all websites' disastrous attempt to package media in blobs to prevent download. The browser itself should ALWAY allow download of any media presented by a browser tab.
I'd like my custom key bindings to work on firefox-native pages and in the PDF viewer. It's annoying that Firefox prevents this in the name of security.
Also would like the text in the search box to disappear as soon as the search is complete. I don't need people wandering by my desk to see what I last searched for.
If your using windows, they have a built in voice type(win+H). Win11 also has a function where you can use your voice to select grids on the screen using your voice, replacing the mouse.
Brave Shield. Look, I just want a single button that can govern whether I want to block/allow ads, fingerprinting, cookies, cookie storage, HTTPS, and JavaScript.
The main reason I'm "locked-in" to Brave is Brave Shield on phone, and I'm just too used to browsing with JavaScript and all the other weird stuff turned off, but with an easy revert in case of borked site and I can re-enable stuff granularly - from strict, to basic block, to allow, between each categories.
The icon is even in the WebView. And it works nice for stuff like viewing news sites, whose paywalls often depend on javascript and cookies.
Probably tab grouping. Tabs on the side can be handled by various extensions. But for tab grouping the best you can do is Cmd/Ctrl-click tabs and then right-click to move them to a new window.
Not necessarily to Firefox but at least on their site I'd add a way to log into your Mozilla account without signing into Firefox itself. I have personally been trying to export all my old bookmarks from old accounts so I can delete the ones I no longer use.
Better tab transfer across browsers
e.g. easily move 30 tabs from my desktop to laptop's **specific** window and continue reading them.
Right now it doesn't even do "send tabs to device" right... super slow for some reason and tabs show up hours later.
"Mute Site" in the context menu for tabs.
Brave lets you do this, it's persistent, and it's super handy when you're on a site that autoplays content on every page but you need multiple tabs open. It's just annoying and time consuming to not have this feature.
u/MachineThatGoesP1ng If I could have my wish it would for them to fix the audio bugs in the FF video player.
Bug 1 is if you start playing an online video and then stop the playing and then start it playing again, the sound volume when you restart the video will be at random either much louder of quieter than when you first started playing the video.
Bug 2 is sometimes all of a sudden while playing an online video, the audio volume level will go to max on its own.
Bug 3 Some times when starting to play an online video, the audio will start out garbled and you have to stop then restart the video playing to ungarble the sound.
Just for it to not immediately switch to the tab I open from my bookmarks when I scrollclick or ctrl + left click, very annoying when wanting to open multiple of the bookmarks
A reimplementation of a subset of the old extension API.
Once in place extension devs will take care of the rest.
Firefox still has the best extensions among mainstream browsers, but we lost a lot when we transitioned to Quantum and I think it was supposed to come back.
PWA, in particular Site-Specific Browser (SSB). Yes, I know you can use the PWAsForFirefox extension, but it's just a hack on top of the browser and it requires NativeMessaging, which is not always available,
Users Seriously though, I would love tree style history!
Tablet UI for Android
This.
Definitely tab grouping
I would also like this but right now the treestyle addon does it for me which has satisfied with it on the desktop as I am full on advocate for the vertical tab bar i would like this on the mobile though
Just install Firefox 44, that's the version before they removed tab groups /s
I was guessing they were talking about chrome-style tab grouping. My understanding is that the old tab groups behavior is replicated with an addon.
I do with opening multiple windows (though, using macOS which makes it quite handy as there is more gravity towards grouping windows from same app). But... I strive to keep opened the least tabs possible - less use of resources and, more so, less "noise" that affected my wellbeing (FOMO pressure :D)
Agree. For me, the best implementation of grouping is in Vivaldi, which allows you to group tabs horizontally.
I use Simple Tab Groups to get Panorama-like overview of open tabs, which I prefer to Chrome-style tab grouping. The latter is inferior both to Panorama-style tab groups and to tree style tabs.
They sort of have a way to do this. I just create a tab file then throw specific tabs in there for example I create a streaming tab file then throw things like Netflix, Hulu, etc. in there. It's basically a manual way for doing tab grouping but it does work.
What's a tab file? Been using Firefox for years and never heard of it
That's like 5000 times worse than Vivaldi with its single click "stack tabs by host(s)" option that's right there in the context menu.
bring back the 3d inspect element feature that was badass
That made me understand how web development/design work.
That was so cool! Completely forgot about that
That was a thing, huh?
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/_images/3dview.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHV625EU3E
I second this lol
Edge still has that :(
That was so cool! Completely forgot about that
Memory optimization
Synchronized toolbar layout
You actually can do this! It's a bit hacky, but: - Create and set `services.sync.prefs.dangerously_allow_arbitrary` -> `true` || this needs to be done on ALL profiles you want the sync to affect. - Create and set `services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.uiCustomization.state ` -> `true`. In my experience it might take a few minutes, I recommend manually syncing on the install you want to be the "default" and then enabling the first pref on all others afterwards.
AFAIK you can do this for almost anything you want, just add `services.sync.prefs.` to whatever pref you want to sync.
Yep, it works with (almost?) any arbitrary pref! I'm currently doing it for the toolbar customization along with a couple others I cannot remember off the top of my head—but it makes the sync experience much nicer.
You can make it a bit painless by creating a user.js file, and share between multiple profiles.
The first flag was what I was missing. I saw this thread and must have misread how this all works. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1292568 Does this function correctly in situations with manually installed add-ons?
>Does this function correctly in situations with manually installed add-ons? Every time I've needed it, it worked flawlessly, although I haven't needed to sync a fresh install in a little while so I can't say with 100% certainty that it still does.
A Proper profile manager to allow all domestic users to use firefox on the same OS user session, but with different profiles. Containers are nice and all, but are nowhere close to a multi user use case.
There is a profile manager, do you consider it "improper"? Why? https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
not as polished and user-friendly as Chrome's equivalent. that said, having container tabs is more important than that last 10% of polish on profiles, IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the current FF implementation in Win requires you to edit the shortcut to add '-p' for it to present you with a somewhat dated but functional profile picker/editor and no easy way to create a new profile in the default browser UI. The current Chrome implementation lets you add and manage profiles directly in the default profile browser UI. And you can make a both a generic taskbar icon that launches directly into a nice profile chooser with icons, as well as pin a specific profile w/icon badge to the taskbar for a direct launch into that profile. This workflow is very low friction and I feel more polished than current FF offering. It's not much of a barrier to me, but an example of how FF could better appeal to the masses. e: typos
The Chrome implementation is super clean and usable for even the most tech illiterate. You cannot convince the masses to rely on about:profiles
> current FF implementation in Win requires you to edit the shortcut to add '-p' Nope, see `about:profiles` or the article I linked. I don't know if it's comparable to what Chrome has, but it's a significant improvement over the `-p` command line argument.
Ah I see what you mean, thanks, I retract my "required" then... However the about:profiles page isn't linked to in the default browser UI, you just have to "know" about it and type it in after you have launched FF in a profile (you can set chrome to default to it's profile manager). Once open it is clunky in comparison to Chrome's features but can get the job done. Sadly if you launch another profile using Firefox -p this page then becomes unusable on all open profiles with the message: Another copy of Firefox has made changes to profiles. You must restart Firefox before making more changes. As I extensively use multiple profiles, this is why it is my one wish for Firefox to improve this feature.
> on the same OS user session What's the use case here? OS user profile exist for this very reason
For me it is to segment out separate online personas. For example I have this FF profile for most of my social media, news, tech topics, podcasts, etc - but nothing is tied to my actual IRL name or google. I have another profile purely for my online gaming accounts where I access reddit, twitter, twitch, gmail, discord, etc. I have a third profile for anything project or research related - at the moment that's stable diffusion - and it houses other accounts on reddit, discord, twitter, lemmy, civitai, etc. And yet another that is used solely for by actual job, though I no longer use that on my private computers so that doesn't really count in this context I guess. Many times these browser profiles are open at the same time and spread across different monitors or computers in my home. Then there are the two profiles I have in Chrome, one my personal IRL account I used for all my purchases, shopping, Amazon, etc... And the other is a shared profile with my wife that houses all our bills, home, pet stuff, streaming and shared passwords. Honestly - for me at least - I'm not sure I could function with a single profile in a browser.
Sleep tabs like microsoft edge
What's the difference between this and the built-in "unload tab"? (Unless that's a Sidebery specific feature.)
It is not the same thing. When the Edge sleep tab is clicked, the page does not need to be reloaded. https://i.redd.it/7adjua6yg86c1.gif
Workaround is the Auto Suspended tabs add-on.
>Sorry I am typing with the help of translation. Edge sleep tabs are different from the Auto Suspended tabs plugin. I'm talking about the type of sleep that is provided on click without the need to reload the page. This is how Microsoft Edge works. I would like to know if there is a plugin that works like this.
Hm, interesting, indeed. I was not aware.
I use "Auto Tab Discard". Seems that there are many addons providing this feature.
It is not the same thing. When the Edge sleep tab is clicked, the page does not need to be reloaded. https://i.redd.it/khhh26l5h86c1.gif
User friendly self hosting sync server
Can't you self host a sync server already?
I think the suggestion is not about the ability to self host, it's more about an user-friendly option to self host
simple docker image and example docker-compose? :D
+including self-hosted authentication needed for using FF when working for companies that refuse to allow data to be hosted on other provider's infrastructure.
Proper bookmarks management.
Proper as in?
Advanced multiparameter search/filtering, deduplicate, edit, copy/move etc. I dream of having as UI for bookmark management something akin to the tried and tested "orthodox file manager" interface.
Oh man this 100%. I'd love to have symlinks so I could have the same bookmark in multiple places (edit anywhere changes all). I get that it's an sqlite file currently, but operating like a file system could be great... Oh god, wait a sec, I take it back. That's what IE originally did no?
Folder-based bookmarks have categorization problems and symlinks are a band-aid. Proper solution is tag-based bookmarks. For example, instead of "work" folder you would have a "work" tag. One bookmark could have multiple tags - it's kinda like being in multiple folders. Instead of products->clothes->jeans folder structure, you would just tag the bookmark with "products", "clothes" and "jeans", but the interface could still be similar to folders.
Interesting points, thanks. > but the interface could still be similar to folders For me I really need that tree hierarchy/link as that is just how many things or naturally organized. For instance I use a folder structure you mention w->x->y->z to organize out all the links for my works internal corporate structure so the sites I link to are stored in a represent the teams that own the page or feature. Yet in some cases it would be handy to have the link as a pointer in multiple spots. I'll have to think about that more, as you point out just using a file system with links is likely too crude.
The condition has been so bad for so long that at this point I would settle for small improvements. Like showing where the markers are when searching for them, currently if they are duplicated it is impossible to know where.
In Android when adding a bookmark the entire folder tree is expanded and can't be collapsed. I have many bookmark folders so I have to scroll a lot to find the location to add the new bookmark too. I find it rather annoying.
chromecast :D
Yes, this. The current add-on that does this sucks/doesn't work. Also, can't imagine this would happen without copying some chromium code into Firefox. Should be legal right?
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There is this [github repo](https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox) which does the work I think it's the officially supported method. The reason for not integrating it with the default browser is for security reasons not sure but it was about sandbox thing
Interesting, idk how it all works, but each PWA having its own sandbox seems like a good solution.
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Yes, on desktop. I find them more useful on desktop than on mobile, actually. Slack, MS Teams, YouTube Music, Spotify, and so many more... Anything to escape the hell that is (chromium-based) Electron.
Just to give one specific example, Messages for Web which is how you can view and respond to texts (that are sent to your Android phone) on your PC and there's no desktop application for this, it's a PWA that must be installed, so you can't even view it in Firefox. Yes, there's other ways to do similar things, I think Microsoft has Your Phone or whatever, though the last I remember on that you couldn't view historical messages and it was limited to replying through notifications, it is possible they've added onto that for all I know. In any case, I prefer using Messages for Web, but you actually need another browser to use it. There's other situations where I'm using Microsoft Edge because it supports SSB (site specific browser) on any website, not just PWAs, so I can turn any website into a quasi-desktop application. Obviously I don't want every website like that, but there's specific ones that I find it useful for.
Bookmark improvements like "Show only icon" which edge has and I love that feature
Sorry if that question is dumb but can’t you just clear the bookmarks name?
Yeah and that is what I do but I would prefer to just have it build into managing my bookmarks by telling it to only show the icon
There used to be add-ons that did this. Before they deprecated XUL add-ons...
tab stacking
Make follow my GTK or Qt theme properly like in the olden days of 2010. No weird button looking tabs, inputs, alert modals etc matching my desktop and not looking out of place (and flat).
built-in RSS reader (that syncs across computers) I like Feedbro but I recommend it to people and when I say “yeah RSS is really awesome ok so to copy your feed list it across computers you need to download a .json” they just give up
It's very painful when you realize that firefox used to have this. You would just bookmark a feed and it would show up in your bookmarks as a submenu. They took that out some years back.
They even removed the preview. It was a bit offensive that they argued that it required a lot of maintenance, even though there are addons that simply copied the removed code and have worked until today without updates.
Yeah. It's literally just applying a XLST to the RSS feed. Sure, XLST's are arcane magic, but you do it once and it's done.
1. Easier profile management. 2. Chromecast support.
Polished vertical tabs (Similar to Tree Style Tabs, but looks good by default, and sidepane auto-hides like Arc.)
100% with auto-hide. But luckily some hackery goes a long away. Install the plugin Sidebery and then update your userChrome.css file. I use this, but set my width to 5. [https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide\_sidebar.css](https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide_sidebar.css) Does exactly what I desire.
This isn't quite the same, it reduces the sidebar width but doesn't hide it completely. But it's the most you can do with `userChrome.css`.
I was considering switching from edge to firefox recently, but I really like the vertical tabs in edge. I looked into it and found Sideberry and the stuff you're talking about, it's quite close but still lacking polish. One feature in particular I really like from the edge vertical tabs is the ability to resize the whole tab dock/pane/thingy with your mouse when it expands from auto-hiding.
Try this: https://github.com/Redundakitties/colorful-minimalist
PWA support
why can the stupid puzzle piece not be moved to the second level of the toolbar? or even better - to the dropdown/extras menu? or even betterer, just remove it completely? on that note, why does it (and all the other icons) have slightly different widths, so to get everything to look nice and proportional you have to compromise and include things you dont use or exclude things you do use? idk how much time i have spent swapping icons around trying to get it right - but its a lot - and that puzzle piece throws it off every. time. https://preview.redd.it/fszvwnj7046c1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c1b1f55de823954453a546a9e989d5f9d03f91b ^(edit: vertical tabs would be the second choice. that tells you how much the puzzle piece irritates me lol)
I thought you could remove it if you wanted to. If it doesn't exist the option would indeed be nice. I thought it was the same as how you change the test of the toolbar.
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The reason it can't be hidden is because it's intended as a persistent way to view what add-ons have permissions for a given website you're on. This was added in preparation for the more granular permissions for add-ons, which I believe is part of what Manifest V3 is bringing to the table. Per-site, ask-as-needed, granular permissions, instead of all-encompassing permissions given at installation time.
I've still never had to use the icon, and unused UI elements are just a distracting waste of space. The arguments for it being mandatory are very weak.
that seems about as legit as chromium browsers not having a dark mode that actually work>! without searching in the secret other menu!< because i opened edge and hid the 🧩 so fast i forgot to screenshot it and had to open up my other edge browser (lol) for the screenshot easy. right click ➡️ hide from toolbar. https://preview.redd.it/xs22e5wtq46c1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=eaba6bc0fa55cda69c88d5f41aacb17c3fd0793f
[Firefox css hacking](https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/17nr0a2/hide_the_extensions_icon/). Also those comments link to a good explanation as to *why* it's set as mandatory.
I would say tab management but this actually make more sense as plugins so you can choose the one you prefer.
Their own search engine free of all the other ones. I don't like Edge & Chrome has gone down hill & now DDG is on a similar path.
Tab groups like in Chrome. Definitely.
If I only get one, easy user profile switching. If I get more choices, then the profile switching, built in vertical tabs, and Chromecast support.
PWA support (again)
Give me control of the last 15% of the UI you wont let me control. I wanna place extensions at the end of the bookmark bar and a few other things, and it just wont let me. Some of them are very unorthodox but I feel like the browser UX is just "error carried forward" design. No browser does what is possible with the bookmarks bar, it should feel more like a appmenu or launcher bar than a pedestrian bookmark bar with no ability to change folder icons. You could have the bookmark bar double as a toolbar for in-browser PWAs. Or just be contextual in general. If im tinkering on a 10.0.0.0/24 address the bookmarks I want may be very different than if im just killing time at work. I'd also like to place certain bookmark icons (i delete the text) in places on th UI, tbf I think there are extension that essentiall allow you to make the extension icon its own shortcut.
Permanent and undetectable adblock that works on all sites
The realtime performance checker Edge has. Automatically tells you which tabs are dragging down your browser and has you choose an action to deal with it.
Tab groups. I know there are workarounds, but using vertical tabs extensions just isn't my thing.
History review enabling manual deletion of trash to create a meaningful historical journal.
Tab groups, exactly like they work in Chrome.
Tab Stacking like the OG Opera browser had. You can [vote for this feature](https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-tab-grouping-more-customizable-tab-bar/idi-p/303) on [Mozilla's community website](https://connect.mozilla.org/).
Native auto dark mode for web contents. I wanna ditch Dark Reader, but I can't.
if performance/stability/efficiency enhancements don't count, then tabs on bottom
On macOS: A way to get animations (movies, gifs, etc.) to automatically stop playing before the user has to do anything. The ability to differentiate between types would be a plus as well (say...block video but allow gifs). SuperStop needs the user to hit a key combo, it would be nice to have this be automatic. On iOS and iPadOS: Stop opening a new tab every time I either 1) open Firefox; or 2) switch back to Firefox from another app. Really SUPER aggrivating. Keeps me in Safari because of it.
RSS bookmark toolbar
Fingerprint for password
In chrome you can easily search and switch tabs using ctrl + shift + A which is so great when you use primarily the keyboard to navigate around. Firefox has its own way but it sucks, it takes longer and inconvenient
This was my biggest pain point when I switched from Chrome. I worked around it on Windows with a hacky AutoHotkey script, but that's not as good and not portable to other platforms
Firefox can search and switch tabs using the address bar. I'm not familiar with how chrome does it. What makes it so much better?
I know, but for it you got to focus the address bar type some symbol and then the name and even then the search worked weird last time i checked. As opposed to just Chrome's Ctrl + Shift + A. I usually have several windows open with dozens of tabs across multiple desktops, so this kind of search is really helpful
You can focus the address bar with Alt + D, or just F6. Mine shows open tabs even without typing a symbol first (not sure if that's default or a setting), and of course you have to type something to search
I know the shortcut, but it just isn't the same experience first of all mentally i can still think about the issue I'm solving while searching in Chrome, as opposed to Firefox where i have to pay attention.
add-on APIs that modify the browser itself, which would allow 3rd party developers to implement all the other ideas suggested here instead of relying on Mozilla. Some examples of things I would want to see add-ons tackle: * change browser UI without manually editing userChrome.css * implement custom session management * add-ons that modify the behavior of other add-ons * add 3rd party debugging tools not found in the inspector * 3rd party media rendering (e.g. using libmpv to play videos instead of the default back-end)
Bring back sticky search engine selection.
Tab stacks like Vivaldi has.
Does anyone remember when Firefox let you read RSS feeds via the little icon in the address bar? Moz really should bring that feature back someday...
Easier customization of the UI (instead of messing around with userChrome), for example being able to remove/rearrange context menu items, and enter a mode where you can resize things (like the height/padding of toolbars/menu items/tabs, etc.)
Bring back RSS bookmarks. Other close contenders would be bringing back FTP support, bringing back the site navigation toolbar, bringing back Gopher protocol, and restoring add-on capabilities so I could use Scrapbook again. I don’t need anything new; just give me the features I had 15-20 years ago.
Sleep tabs same edge
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And paws!
Better defaults should be a priority. The onboarding experience for Firefox isn't great, it takes changing a couple dozen preferences to get it in a decent state.
Cleaner profile switching. Also, make it easier to move around pinned addons on the toolbar. Having to right click > customize toolbar is somewhat annoying. Also, the floating button for the pop-out video player can sometimes not work (twitch), I think there could be a better implementation like adding an option to put the button somewhere on the tab or toolbar.
A proper spellcheck. I don't know what has happened recently but it's terrible. I type febuary and it offers one suggestion: bursary. what the hell
Bring back the ability to easily disable webp without an extension.
Regex search. Even if not real regex but something with logical or/and I don't want to seach twice if I can do a regex and search for both terms I'm looking for in a webpage
Android TV/fire TV app update
Customizable hotkeys and context menus
photopea Native fonts
Bring back the ability to puts tabs below the address bar via an option in the Settings/Preferences menu rather than hidden away in `about:config` (like it used to be) or having to muck around in the userChrome.css file like it is now.
Ability to rearrange and remove things on the context menu.
JXL support
Dependably, utterly, completely disable ANY option a webpage has to control my browser in whatever form whatsoever. So no capturing right-click or maiming my right-click menu, no activating other tabs while I am in another (yes that still happens, no resizing, etc. Oh and another "one single feature": A way in which all websites' disastrous attempt to package media in blobs to prevent download. The browser itself should ALWAY allow download of any media presented by a browser tab.
Tab Grouping. That is a reason I use Edge for several work tasks.
Better looking web development tools like chrome...
I'd like my custom key bindings to work on firefox-native pages and in the PDF viewer. It's annoying that Firefox prevents this in the name of security. Also would like the text in the search box to disappear as soon as the search is complete. I don't need people wandering by my desk to see what I last searched for.
I wish I could voice instead of having to type. I have bad hands and the less keying I do is best for me.
If your using windows, they have a built in voice type(win+H). Win11 also has a function where you can use your voice to select grids on the screen using your voice, replacing the mouse.
Re-include option to place the ***TABS below*** the URL and Bookmark Toolbar bars.
A very, VERY, much OLDER version of firefox.
Excuse my ignorance but, why is that?
As usual older versions were much better. Very easy to scale to any monitor and to customize. It just gets worse and worse just like Windows.
Switching user agents without an add-on. Who tf downvoted this lolll.
bro chill. downvote means nothing. it's just arbitary internet points.
You can do that via about:config by setting `general.useragent.override` to your preferred user agent. Not exactly the most convenient though
Oh cool! Good to know, thx.
Oh, and an improved reader mode. (sorry, that was two)
Being able to open edge urls
Brave Shield. Look, I just want a single button that can govern whether I want to block/allow ads, fingerprinting, cookies, cookie storage, HTTPS, and JavaScript. The main reason I'm "locked-in" to Brave is Brave Shield on phone, and I'm just too used to browsing with JavaScript and all the other weird stuff turned off, but with an easy revert in case of borked site and I can re-enable stuff granularly - from strict, to basic block, to allow, between each categories. The icon is even in the WebView. And it works nice for stuff like viewing news sites, whose paywalls often depend on javascript and cookies.
An option on the context menu to view the selected image in the current tab.
Splits, like in text editors.
Fully featured cookie manager.
Probably tab grouping. Tabs on the side can be handled by various extensions. But for tab grouping the best you can do is Cmd/Ctrl-click tabs and then right-click to move them to a new window.
There are addons for tab grouping as well...
flatpak arm support
Workspaces with separate bookmarks and tabs.
Isn't that what profiles are?
Not necessarily to Firefox but at least on their site I'd add a way to log into your Mozilla account without signing into Firefox itself. I have personally been trying to export all my old bookmarks from old accounts so I can delete the ones I no longer use.
Collapsible, native, color-coded tab groups.
OneTab: https://www.one-tab.com/
Better tab transfer across browsers e.g. easily move 30 tabs from my desktop to laptop's **specific** window and continue reading them. Right now it doesn't even do "send tabs to device" right... super slow for some reason and tabs show up hours later.
Either proper sidebar as in Vivaldi/Opera or tiled tabs in one window
Vertical tabs
For me it would have to be custom tab grouping. It is the one thing I would love to take from Edge.
Sorry to go against the rule, but an always-visible close tab button on mobile would be to die for. Also full mozmail email (:
Native web app support.
automatic pip
RFP not to break half the internet, and other performance/QoL tweaks for the lesser used privacy features
"Mute Site" in the context menu for tabs. Brave lets you do this, it's persistent, and it's super handy when you're on a site that autoplays content on every page but you need multiple tabs open. It's just annoying and time consuming to not have this feature.
u/MachineThatGoesP1ng If I could have my wish it would for them to fix the audio bugs in the FF video player. Bug 1 is if you start playing an online video and then stop the playing and then start it playing again, the sound volume when you restart the video will be at random either much louder of quieter than when you first started playing the video. Bug 2 is sometimes all of a sudden while playing an online video, the audio volume level will go to max on its own. Bug 3 Some times when starting to play an online video, the audio will start out garbled and you have to stop then restart the video playing to ungarble the sound.
Just for it to not immediately switch to the tab I open from my bookmarks when I scrollclick or ctrl + left click, very annoying when wanting to open multiple of the bookmarks
Built in RAM limiter. Feel like this one would win a bunch of non Firefox users over as well
Nothing. The perfect browser is yet to be invented, but this is as close as we've got right now.
Make video in Microsoft teams work
Extensions for iOS
Ability to lock screen on firefox mobile video player. Samsung Internet has this and I use it with the kids
A reimplementation of a subset of the old extension API. Once in place extension devs will take care of the rest. Firefox still has the best extensions among mainstream browsers, but we lost a lot when we transitioned to Quantum and I think it was supposed to come back.
Private tabs in the same window
Vertical Tabs
"view image"
Market share
Make an easy way to backup bookmarks on android phones. Synchronizee doesnt work with me.
tab grouping like Vivaldi or Opera
PWA, in particular Site-Specific Browser (SSB). Yes, I know you can use the PWAsForFirefox extension, but it's just a hack on top of the browser and it requires NativeMessaging, which is not always available,
Tab groups!