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This is something I thought Mozilla would eventually fix, but still hasn't in over a decade.

When clicking a target="_blank" link that opens in a new tab, the URL bar shows "about:blank" until the server responds.

Also, document.location.href in the console returns "about:blank" instead of the real URL. This is annoying for user scripts.

It would be better if it immediately showed the target URL. document.location.href also should immediately return the correct URL.

After right clicking a file in the list of downloaded file, an option I have been wishing for a long time is "copy path to file to the clipboard".

By that I mean the local path where the file is saved. The source URL can already be copied.

Currently, LibreWolf (like Firefox) only shows a request in the devtools after it is completed. If it fails because the server does not respond, it shows "No payload for this request".

It would be better if it showed the payload that it tried to send, even if it was unsuccessful.

In 2022, Mozilla replaced their performance analysis tool (screenshot source) with an externally dependent tool called "Firefox Profiler". It is not integrated in Firefox but depends on an external web app, which is bad.

Please bring back the original "Performance" tool in the developer tools.

Please add something like browser.privatebrowsing.forceMediaMemoryCache for normal browsing (non-private).

Video caching to disk adds gigabytes of needless wear every day to SSDs and live USB sticks, and modern computers have large RAM storage anyway.

This is the same reason Mozilla chose to compress json sessionstore backups. (But video is already compressed so it can not be compressed any further with lz4 or gzip.)

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent is a treasure inside about:config of Firefox (and LibreWolf for that matter). Instead of opening new tabs at the end, it opens them right next to the current tab so you can go back to the last tab instantly without scrolling through a long tab list! I believe this should be the default behaviour in every browser.

Unfortunately, too few users are aware it even exists.

I suggest you add this as a checkbox in the graphical about:preferences menu.

I hope not. Add-on signing is a glorified backdoor. Not only does it let Mozilla remotely disable extensions, but in future, governments can force Mozilla to censor unwanted extensions.

In addition, it is a privacy violation, since Mozilla can see who has installed which add-on.

[…] when Firefox contacts Mozilla servers to verify if Mozilla approved each extension, it discloses to Mozilla which extensions are in use. So in addition to being a backdoor by definition, it is a severe privacy violation as well. This comes from an organization that perpetually claims to champion user freedom and privacy.

(source: change.org)

And let's not forget about a certain May 2019 incident:

all Firefox addons have been disabled due to an expired certificate. And so, people got silently hit with stuff like this when turning their "private and secure" browser on. It was only a matter of time until Mozilla's extension prison backfired, and it did so spectacularly. Though the BugZilla comments were already predictably closed, they will not be able to contain the armageddon this time, no matter how much PR they spew. The whole /r/firefox front page is filled with threads about this, with many people moving to Chrome-based browsers. Hacker News is also booming. Tech sites are running with the news too. The funny thing is, the whole point of the extension prison was allegedly to increase security - and yet today, all security addons got disabled because of it! Shows how freedom always has to trump over security or it ends up in a disaster like this.

(source: digdeeper.club)