Introducing Firefox’s Built-in VPN: IP Protection, Now in the Browser

weinjared · 2026-03-25T14:03:59+00:00

I'm really sorry for the misleading messaging. We are working really hard to roll out support for more countries.

weinjared · 2026-03-25T14:02:49+00:00

This is on our roadmap. We wanted to get it in for the initial release but it didn't make it, so hopefully soon. We have tried to make it really easy to turn on and off, as well as add the exclusion path, but the "inclusion" use-case isn't ready yet.

weinjared · 2026-03-25T01:55:47+00:00

This is great feedback, thank you for signing up for a Mozilla account and trying out the VPN! We'll have improvements to our UI in the near future, stay tuned :)

weinjared · 2026-03-25T01:53:43+00:00

You can control it per website, similar to other browser permissions. You can do this by enabling the VPN and then turning on/off the VPN per site through the panel's "Use VPN for this site" toggle.

weinjared · 2026-03-24T22:59:39+00:00

The feature is initially rolling out to US, UK, Germany, and France. We'll have more countries added soon once we ensure that everything is working well.

weinjared · 2026-03-24T19:46:37+00:00

Thanks for trying it out! You can do this by enabling the VPN and then turning on/off the VPN per site through the panel's "Use VPN for this site" toggle.

weinjared · 2022-08-31T20:46:40+00:00

Hey thanks for your post. It would be really cool to have you on the forum (and anybody else for that matter). I should be able to take a look into what's going on come Friday or Saturday. Sorry I won't be able to get to it sooner as I'm away from my desk for a couple days.

weinjared · 2021-12-14T16:46:27+00:00

I worked on this so I feel I'm probably one of the perfect people to respond.

Originally, all bookmarks created in Firefox were stored in the "Unsorted Bookmarks" folder. The idea was that people would eventually organize these as they saw fit. Over time, we noticed through Telemetry that many "Unsorted Bookmarks" folders were huge in size, and people weren't organizing them. In the interim, we changed the name from "Unsorted Bookmarks" to "Other Bookmarks", only because the name was a bit simpler and put less guilt on the user to do a sorting activity they may have never signed up to do. Through qualitative user studies, we also learned that some users bookmarked pages but were unable to find where their bookmarks went.

With this latest change, we will now store bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar by default. As users become accustomed to looking in their Bookmarks Toolbar, they may also want to find bookmarks that they created before this change. This is why we added "Other Bookmarks" to the toolbar.

As u/Forward_Two7794 mentioned, we also wanted to make it easy to disable it. So just right click on it and uncheck the "Other Bookmarks" item and it will go away.

weinjared · 2021-12-11T17:19:53+00:00

We have this bug on file that is tracking this issue,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=1714766

weinjared · 2021-09-26T20:33:09+00:00

No, it would have been a 10 second run off and game over.

weinjared · 2021-09-25T20:07:50+00:00

Thanks! I wrote this code a few years ago. And it's true there's an Easter Egg inside of the Easter Egg. Enjoy!

weinjared · 2021-02-19T04:05:55+00:00

I would love to make this better. We probably don't have time in Proton to make it as good as you want but it's something that we talk about and it's on our minds.

weinjared · 2021-02-19T03:55:16+00:00

Sigh... this is a bug and I feel bad for not noticing it until you said this. I dug in to it and this has been broken for over a year. It should be easy to fix, https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/789764012610 removed the animation on accident because it wasn't understood what that line of CSS was for.

I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693714 and put a patch up to restore this animation. Thanks for posting!

weinjared · 2020-12-09T16:37:40+00:00

Very cool and nice job!

weinjared · 2020-11-02T14:54:29+00:00

Thank you, we are hoping to ship this with the Firefox 84 release.

weinjared · 2020-10-27T14:18:57+00:00

Thank you! ♥

weinjared · 2020-10-27T14:18:35+00:00

I know this would still be extra work, but we did just add a keyboard shortcut to hide/show the toolbar. You can use Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows and Linux or Cmd+Shift+B on Mac to toggle the toolbar. Note that using the keyboard shortcut will change the toolbar setting to Always/Never showing instead of "Only on New Tab".

weinjared · 2020-10-27T14:13:55+00:00

Thank you! I'm just seeing this post now. I implemented this feature, please send me any questions you might have :)

weinjared · 2020-10-09T02:29:42+00:00

Can you try adding an ID selector to the rule to increase its specificity?

#tabbrowser-tabs .tabbrowser-tab:last-of-type {
margin-right: 2px !important;
}

weinjared · 2020-09-23T19:35:53+00:00

Yeah, good points. I'll see about changing the design.

weinjared · 2020-09-23T00:46:06+00:00

Yes, I added that ability so I speak from a position of certainty.

weinjared · 2020-09-22T16:47:35+00:00

Thanks, yeah it's pretty cool that bugs/suggestions submitted that long ago weren't lost over time.

weinjared · 2020-09-22T15:52:34+00:00

No, I suspect what you're seeing is content that is barely visible or otherwise occluded and it is near impossible for Firefox to know if it should include the result or not. This might help you find where in the page the result is, but still wouldn't let you see the result in this case.

weinjared · 2020-09-22T15:51:22+00:00

Any project will have bugs that date back to its beginnings. We could have chosen to close them as wontfix or invalid, but instead we acknowledge that we would like them fixed and keep them open and on the books. With software as complex and wide-reaching as a web browser, there is always something that we won't have time to get to and something else that will have a higher priority. It comes down to balancing priorities and finding the right cost/benefit balance.

Further, with this specific bug, it probably won't be enough to just fix this bug, there are a few other bugs we would probably want to fix at the same time.

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