We desperately need a stable implementation of fission / true tab separation on android.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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It's actually pretty stable in Nightly
That's great news! I guess i should switch to nightly
Do it!
Remove the AI parts - and let people opt-in, for local LLMs if you think that is needed.
Revamp the settings, so they are clear, simple and all there.
Add a bookmark manager in the browser, that is simple, and can do the basic stuff like finding duplicates and test if the adresses is working and so forth.
Better security about addons...
Would be cool to have more options to clean bookmarks indeed. I've got so manybover the years, it would take to long to manually check each one..
Revamp the settings, so they are clear, simple and all there.
I'm intrigued. Do you mind sharing your thoughts about this? What's the issue as it stands and how would you like to see things improved?
Well, the "General" tab is very long. It could benefit from being split up. Fx the theme and looks should have its own tab. Same goes for Privacy and Security. Split them up. Though there is an overlap between the two, it would make it easier for most regular users to find their way. At the same time, they would learn a bit about what is about security, and what is about privacy.
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to share. It's certainly food for thought.
In no particular order
- Kill off all AI in the browser. And don’t re-add it!
- Do not use hidden extensions that can only be disabled in
about:config - Make it possible to have tabs and a settable homepage in mobile Firefox
- Make ALL telemetry and user tracking opt-in
- Reinstate a fully customizable UI like in the past
- Make it possible to locally load extensions (no, disabaling validation or temporary loading them for development reasons is not a solution)
- Allow for app mode (see Chromium-based browser’s
--appparameter)
Make ALL telemetry and user tracking opt-in
i get where you're coming from but NO telemetry would be terrible for fixing bugs and idiosyncrasies
Not having telemetry was fine the last 30 years.
you say that, but have you ever tried fixing bugs only based on end-user reports?
there's a reason firefox has open tickets that are 25 years old.
there’s a reason firefox has open tickets that are 25 years old.
And the reason is, they don’t properly triage bugs.
well, that too
i don't think AI should be killed completely since some people may use it, but it should at least be opt-in.
everything else you suggested is good
AI is the best way to offer local translations that don't send your private data off to someone else's server
If the translations would be any good, yes.
If it's your personal data, I would definitely not send it to a server. A bad AI translation is still better than sending a page containing passwords over the network
You have so little respect for your community that you used an LLM to write this obsequious, patronising announcement instead of having a human employee write it. Does nobody there care anymore?