Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Mozilla Firefox
147 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13453342, 4 years agoGreat idea. However, the first email I've received through this service seems to have been garbled due to encoding problems?
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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 3 out of 5by Yatt, 4 years agoIt would be great if whenever I click on the relay icon on the taskbar to display the list of aliases instead of clicking on the icon then clicking on manange my all aliases which will take me to a new tab just to copy my aliases.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16240798, 4 years agoKnow this is probably not the Place (though believe it is relevant) but would the Developer mind responding to Review by: juan riccio posted nearby.
Not a user yet but am very interested in this. Tnx (3 Star for Middle of the Road, Had to install to review, Had to rate to Review,,,I think. Thank you Again) - Rated 3 out of 5by Ince Hamza, 4 years agoI love it, but some bugs are really annoying.
It ruins lot of input fields, even basic website such as Google. I can't wait for improvement, really nice extension. :) - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13619449, 4 years agoLike others have said - I love the idea, but just doesn't work for enough sites that I want it for (mostly social media or adult-oriented websites).
Update - doesn't work with Flickr - Rated 3 out of 5by zzz, 4 years agoWas working perfectly the past two months until recently. No longer getting emails forwarded from the previous two weeks from any alias. Also does not work with Privacy.com
Developer response
posted 4 years agoIf you're using ProtonMail, ProtonMail delivery should be fixed now; thank you for reporting this! - Rated 3 out of 5by Cosmic_Annihilation, 4 years agoThis service is a great idea in principle and I hope it helps funding Firefox. But I already found sites that are blocking these alias email addresses, probably because it's too easy to simply block the relay.firefox.com domain. I'm not directly blaming Mozilla for this but hopefully new versions of the service will make it harder for sites to block the aliases.
- Rated 3 out of 5by tinytoast, 4 years agoThe idea of a relay junkmail with option to enable/disable redirection is excellent!
However, I find the addon and the user experience to be near useless.
BEST UX practice:
1. Click on email field, addon suggests to input relay address.
2. Click on any alias, it gets submitted to field. Nice and easy.
Current flow:
1. Click email field, addons says "You have X aliases left", only "Manage" button available;
2. Click Manage, get redirected to Mozilla sign in page;
3. Sign in to Mozilla;
4. Manually copy alias from the list;
5. Go back to page with email field;
6. Manually paste the alias.Developer response
posted 4 years agoSeveral Relay users have suggested similar enhancements and we have this use case on our roadmap. Thanks for taking the time to leave such detailed feedback. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13289131, 4 years agoGreat idea. Unfortunately, the beta refuses to safe preferences (specifically the setting to stop replacing all email fields on websites). This makes it difficult-to-impossible to log in to some sites.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16230687, 4 years agoLove the idea here, but have a problem with encoded emails.
I receive emails in Hebrew, but the relayed emails appear Jibrish. I assume the relay does not work will for encoded languages.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 3 out of 5by The_Blinded, 4 years agoEstensione quasi inutile... Problemi più gravi:
- Manca la possibilità di visualizzare le email bloccate
- Manca la possibilità di poter scrivere delle note vicino agli indirizzi (es. il sito dove è stato usato etc.)
- Non si può cambiare l'indirizzo email a cui vengono inviate le email - Rated 3 out of 5by Pit, 4 years agoI wanted to try to register to 9gag.com using relay and the address is blocked.
I really didn't want to write a review yet as I couldn't play with it enough, but this is the only way to contact you. - Rated 3 out of 5by Tyler Regas, 4 years agoNice. I like the idea. I get the idea of having just a few while they're testing it, but I don't understand why the data on the site (i.e., your aliases) don't show up in the add-on. All we get it this crummy features slider and no way to turn it off or even make the tool usable, aside from trying to jam that huge logo into a small text field. I look forward to simple improvements.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tom, 4 years agoI can't enter text in the email field on this page when the extension is installed. Apparently reviews are the only way to send feedback like this? https://public.viavid.com/player/index.php?id=140568
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posted 4 years agoThanks for the input. I filed an issue on GitHub here: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/601 - Rated 3 out of 5by jaxx, 4 years agorelay icon next to email field is in the tab navigation order between login and password field on some sites. Sadly this breaks my password manager. Please consider to rework this behavior.
Thx for the reply, I'm using Keepass 2.x But it should be the same with every password manager which uses Keyboard emulation.Developer response
posted 4 years agoWe're working on a fix for this issue. Would you be willing to update your feedback to let us know what password manager you use? - Rated 3 out of 5by Feedbax, 4 years agoSeems to be working fine so far. Except I am getting the developer tools box opening sporadically for no apparent reason.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ryan, 4 years agoI _want_ to like this, but there are some issues. In order for this service to be more useful than anonaddy, it needs to have the ability to create unlimited aliases with labels so that you can identify which are which.
Use Case: Using a different alias for each website so that you know which site leaked your email to other sites.
Being able to create an alias straight from the extension would be great as well. This would allow me to create an email alias with the firefox relay extension and the password with the lastpass extension. This pair would be a match made in heaven.
The ability to reply to emails that originated from Firefox Relay would also be a nice feature.
I'll be keeping an eye on this for future improvements. It definitely has potential. - Rated 3 out of 5by p6, 4 years agoNov 1st, 2020;
Without the ability to reply using the Firefox relay alias, the very purpose to use Relay is moot!
I contacted a car dealership using one of my aliases. However, I had to reply using my own personal email, which got captured by the dealership, and I am now permanently entered in his distribution list.
So, what is the point?
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I would like to have the option to create my own prefix email, using the @relay.firefox.com. Without the limitation of 5 aliases.
In this manner, I can control which email is being spammed, example:
I create an account with a new entity; I create the specific alias:
-Mynametag.newentity@relay.firefox.com
If I start to receive junk mail from "newentity", then I delete the alias.
I have done that for many years, unfortunately, it means that I need to create a new email address each time I enroll, which means my computer currently reads tens of email addresses.
So you should give the option to the user to create his own alias, and remove the limit of 5.
Edit on July 31st, 2020:
To avoid collisions, or similar prefixes, you can always have a validation running at creation time; I also add a string to make my alias unique, such as the date at which I create it:
20200731NewEntity@p6.firefox.com
This has two benefits: I can organize my email aliases list in chronological order, increasing or decreasing, and I always keep track of the date at which I created the alias.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback. Creating custom local parts will definitely lead to collisions in the future, so we have an issue filed to support "catch-all" subdomains for aliases: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/55
E.g., you could make up any alias you want like newentity@p6.firefox.com. - Rated 3 out of 5by Hessie Jones, 4 years ago
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback. Added BJs.com to https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/559- Rated 3 out of 5by Dimtuhop, 4 years agoCurrently only allows 5 aliases (unlike Abine's DNT which is unlimited) and the button that appears in the email boxes overlaps the lastpass fill buttons.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback. Have filed an issue for the overlap with LastPass: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/571