Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Mozilla Firefox
76 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by JVN Tech, 3 years agoThe extension insists on using my old Firefox account email. Currently my account is linked to another email, but whenever I try to log into Relay it shows my old account email.
- Rated 2 out of 5by pennypacker, 3 years agoProvides a useful service, but implementation can be improved. Add-on allows you to generate a new alias from an email field, but this is a use case that is rare.
Much more common I would imagine is to choose an existing alias (from the maximum of 5 provided), and paste that alias into the email field (e.g. signing up for a newsletter). Add-on does not provide that, instead the user has to navigate to Firefox Relay web page, choose an alias, click on copy icon, change back to original tab, right-click the email field, and paste the alias.
6 separate actions, compared to one or two actions if you could right-click on the email field, move to the alias of interest, and click to select and paste.
Implementation is back to front (prioritising a rarely-used feature above an often-used feature) and needs fixing. UX seems to have been designed by developers, rather than humans (no slight against developers). - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15132101, 3 years agoThe relay email was rejected by RYM (RateYourMusic.com). Too bad. Seemed like a great idea!! Also, I see no way to set the Block or Forwarding elements. Suggestions please?
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThanks for letting us know about RYM. To enable/disable forwarding, you should see a toggle next to each alias at https://relay.firefox.com/accounts/profile/. - Rated 2 out of 5by Ivory, 3 years agoI installed it, and tried to connect to a site I already had an account on. When I click on the email address field to of my login, I cannot type anything anymore. I see only the Firefox RElay icon, even my password vault icon disapeared. I have no other choice but using Firefox relay, so I cannot even enter the email address I signed in with to change the address to a generated alias. I had to go to preference to unclick the option "Show relay Icon in email fields on website". Not practical at all.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi Ivory, I'm so sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue. We’d love to try and help resolve it for you. Would you feel comfortable sharing the website that you were trying to use? If so, could I kindly ask for you to open an issue in Github and post it there. We’ll take a look. Thank you! https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14391797, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17015767, 3 years agoIt is blocking me from using my email - @att.net
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, sorry you're having this issue. Can you describe more detail about how you're being blocked from using your email? - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16462109, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13723667, 4 years agoI like the idea but poorly done. It should list all the email address I have. I should not have to open other page.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12697772, 4 years agoThank you for your reply.
I have 5 different aliases, each one associated to one Relay email account.
My problem is: No matter what Relay email account I use (and, therefore, what alias associated to it), the forwarded emails are always named after the first alias I ever used.
For instance, I have an alias "idealista" for the website idealista.com and another alias "wallapop" for the website wallapop.com, each alias associated to different Relay email accounts, emails from wallapop will invariable be headed as "idealista".
Thank you.
*****
I love this extension but I give 2 stars (for now) because it keeps labeling ALL the emails I get from ALL my aliases after the first nickname I gave to my first alias. I don't know if I'm explaining myself clearly.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, sorry you're having trouble. Can you describe in more detail the exact steps of the problem you're having? - Rated 2 out of 5by drosseros, 4 years agoUntil Mozilla makes existing emails accesible via right click, I only give 2 stars. There is a create button which you do it once but email you'll always use is hidden. Please hire new UI/UX designer.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Don Dimochy, 4 years agoI don't know how to use my relay alias as a message sender !
Developer response
posted 4 years agoWe don't currently support sending messages with relay aliases. Sorry. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13965393, 4 years agoGreat idea! I haven't actually tried it yet and I'm going to disable it. It's very frequently interfering with the usual "remembered" email addresses/passwords on websites. Specifically, visit a site, email address and password are filled in, click "login" or equivalent, site responds with "enter a valid email address". Sometimes I cannot get past that - I have found a workaround by accident - click twice. So until this add-on matures, I'll leave on the back burner . . .
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHmm ... you might try disabling the icon in email fields. There's a setting for it in the add-on. Called "Show Relay icon in email fields on websites" - Rated 2 out of 5by S200, 4 years agoProbando la nueva herramienta, en varias webs. Con problema en la activacion para la autenticación de dos factores, utilizando el correo con el subdomino @relay.firefox.com en la confirmacion de la dirección del correo Realy sin recibir el correo de confirmacion en la bandeja de entrada.
1. El administrador de contraseñas podria utilizarse para guardar los codigos.
Sin la posibilidad de probarlo:
2. En Wifi´s publicas para el acceso a bibliotecas, aeropuertos, hoteles, otros lugares publicos en caso de no querer utilizar una conexion enrutada (*VPN encriptada), relay podria ser una buena opcion.
Utilizando la misma direccion de correo en varias Web. - Rated 2 out of 5by TeresaS, 4 years agoMy main problem with this add on is that the icon can't be turned off and is right on top of the icon to login with my password manager. I have only used it once... I am thinking about deleting over this issue.
I read your response and have already tried this, but the slider does not move - it stays blue or on no matter what I do. So I can't turn it off. - Rated 2 out of 5by hokonch, 4 years agoFirefox Relay haven't been comfortable yet in Japan. I have experienced not receiving many emails from Japanese websites. So, I tested Firefox Relay on popular Japanese sites. Among 20 websites selected from SimilarWeb top websites ranking in Japan, I failed to sign up 11 Websites.
ベータは終わった?ように見えますが、まだ日本のメールへの対応は道半ばのように見えます。人気サイトの会員登録でテストしたところ半分以上で確認メールが届きませんでした。人気サイトでこれならば、リニューアルもなかなかできない普通のサイトではもっと多くの割合で失敗するのでは。
追記: ドコモメールもYahoo!メール (もちろんyahoo.co.jp の方です) もRelayアドレスに送信すると不通になりますね。 - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12125742, 4 years agoI cannot disable that the icon is shown on each input field.
Why can't I just use an existing alias? Why only a button to create a new alias? - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14350211, 4 years ago便利なんですが、転送されてきたメールで相手のメールアドレスがわからないのはどうしたものか...
また、エイリアスの管理画面で作成したエイリアスにメモなどを書き込めるとさらによいと思いました。今後エイリアス数上限が上がること期待してしまいます。
It's convenient. However, you can't know to know the email address of the person to whom the forwarded email is coming from. That's a complaint.
And I thought it would be even better if I could write memos and so on to the alias I created in the alias management screen. I hope the maximum number of aliases will be increased in the future.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback and sorry to reply in English. We are working through some issues with non-Latin character sets. We should have a solution soon. We have an item in our backlog to allow you to annotate email aliases with additional information. And yes, we will offer a version that provides more than 5 email aliases. - Rated 2 out of 5by Фугас Броколя, 4 years agoFirefox Relay Service and Unicode escape sequence.
That's what I get:
\u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435
It's "Hello" in Cyrillic.
--UPD--
It was "Body" of email. Google Mail.
Also, answer notification came to me directly to my main mail (not relay) and contains this:
We & #39 ;re
and
& quot; From & quot;, & quot;Subject & quot;, or & quot;Body & quot; of the email?
Idk is that google, mozilla or both.Developer response
posted 4 years agoWe just deployed a new release which should fix this issue. If it does, can you let us know here? (And maybe update your review so other users will also know it's working?) - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16239002, 4 years agoПо этой ссылке скриншот того, как пришло письмо после прогона через Релэй , не спам и не вирусы https://prnt.sc/u3hpb7
- Rated 2 out of 5by scram, 4 years agoA small downside to this addon, it should be possible from an email field to choose the temporary address already saved in the browser.
But I see that you can only create new addresses via the icon in the field.
if I want to take back a temporary email address already registered, I have to go in the address management to make a copy/paste.
FR: petit bémol a cette addon, il devrait-être possible a partir d'un champ email de choisir les adresse temporaire déja enregistrée dans le navigateur.
Or je constate que l'on ne peut que créer des nouvelles adresse via l'icone présente dans le champ.
si je souhaite reprendre une adresse email temporaire déja inscrite, il faut que j'aille dans la gestion des adresses pour faire un copié/collé. - Rated 2 out of 5by Ed, 4 years agoI love the idea! Unfortunately the site I was trying to use it on (mjam.net) didn't seem to think that the *@relay.firefox.com address was an actual email address and prompted me to enter one over and over again.
So for now I cannot give it a better rating, but I will gladly change it if I was somehow mistaken, the issue is not with firefox relay, or the issue is fixed.
EDIT: keep up the good work! - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13658990, 5 years agoThis is an awesome idea but having a limit of 5 alias is a huge problem. I would like to give out unique email address or categorized email address to different services. If the 5 alias limit is lifted I think this would be a great service.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Rapacious Bodhisattva, 5 years agoonce installed and that purple icon appears inside email login field its capturing the tab key so cannot simply type in emailid hit tab and enter password ... that purple widget should NOT capture the tab key when cursor is inside login(emailid) field ... Please fix
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the feedback. I've filed an issue here: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/576 - Rated 2 out of 5by G-Hr, 5 years agoGood idea, but why does it needs access to all website data ? Isn't it overkill to just generate an e-mail address to fill-in a field ?
There is an existing extension which does exactly the job, does not ask for unneeded permissons, and does not link the alias to our real address at all: please check Bloody Vikings! ... Way more privacy oriented !!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the feedback. We have an issue filed to only ask for all urls if needed: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/252