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My small wish is that FF on Android supports an intent that opens a URL in a new private tab. That way I'd be able to selectively open pages from HN, Reddit or other apps in private tabs—by the way of Tasker or Automate.

I looked a bit through FF code, and there's an intent to open an empty private tab, but not an address. Alas, with my lack of knowledge about data flow in an Android app, I'm not of much help so far.

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I'm super cognizant of the /dev/null that is bugzilla, but have you opened an issue about that? My stance is that I don't have influence over whether they ignore me, but I have more righteous indignation if I did, in fact, open a ticket and then they ignored me

The Android Firefox, formerly known as Fenix, has a separate tracker on Github. However I wouldn't say that it's radically divergent in habits—more of a different take on the same problem that Mozilla has very limited resources and its own vision, whereas the hordes of users have thousands of their own wishes. E.g. the Fenix' tracker finally clears out stale bugs, at least occasionally, instead of letting them ferment for many years.

Anyway, personally I came to terms with the fact that open-source devs aren't my bitches, and just accept with gratitude what they offer to the world, while abstaining from polluting the trackers even further. However, I'm not above a hopeful whisper into the noosphere.

You could also try https://connect.mozilla.org which is the official location for ideas like this (and it sounds like a great idea to me!) There's definitely no guarantee that it won't still be ignored, but at least there's a mechanism for popular ideas to get some attention.

I know it's not FF, but Bromite has this feature.

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