The thing I want natively is a built-in way to control volume per tab- not just mute, not through a plugin… Just a simple volume slider that works.

• built-in adblocker

• ability to have JavaScript / sound / image loading turned off by default but with a whitelist of sites that can run / play / load them

• built-in secure password manager

• open-source, natch

• native ssh and ftp

• a button that autogenerates a metadata-free, archived link to the current page

• bring back flash

• can open any folder of folders of images as a slideshow

• feeds false metadata to sites trying to fingerprint the user

• rejects / autodeletes all but whitelisted cookies

• built-in tamagotchi / virtual pets

• Tab-organisation features (e.g. stacking, trees)
• Synchronised history - so you can find something you were looking at on your phone on your desktop or vice-versa
• Containers (Firefox) are great
• Full-page screenshot (Firefox) is very handy

I want the old animated Netscape logo in the corner back

I really just want web browsers to die, and be replaced by one of the slimmed down options like gemini, gopher, or some markdown viewer.

The web just keeps getting increasingly bloated and ad-ridden, and filled with popups. Web browsers are as complex as entire operating systems now, so only 2 orgs (google and mozilla) have the resources and expertise to build a browser, and mozilla might throw in the towel eventually, leaving the internet as one big google ad.

IE move viewing of mostly static content into these simple variants like gemini, and move dynamic things to local apps with API access.

Data saving option for mobile netwerk , and website’s RSS feed finder , webpage translation too … As for what I don’t want to see : big installation size , ugly design and tracking

I want browsers to not choke and die whenever you idle on a video for too long. I’ve noticed this with Chrome and Firefox both. If I leave a YouTube video on idle for longer than a half hour and I come back to it, I gotta refresh or sometimes copy the link, open a new tab, paste it there and go to the video to resume. Sometimes it doesn’t even resume where I left off, gotta start from the beginning.

It’s aggravating.

if i open a site that ive opened x times this week/month a popup appears that says “no” then the pc shuts down and cannot be turned on for 3 hours.

background/defocused tabs are ‘paused’ by default.

paused meaning no runtime execution of scripts or anything else.

firstly, there’s always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.

secondly, it’s almost always wasting cycles, so its just wasteful of resources and energy.

ofc with some option for you to eg. right-click on a tab and mark it as ‘runtime in background’ or something, for webmail or messengers etc which you do want runtime.

but it should essentially be whitelisted.

i’ve actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it.

Dark theme and accessible color contrast enforced by default.

If the site owner makes stupid choices, my browser should ignore them.

Edit: And an automatic switch to light theme if I decode to print something, obviously. I wasn’t raised in a barn.

A limit of data that can be used daily and we can track how much data we consume.

A little discrete “progress bar” at the bottom of the toolbar would be cool to see in the blink of an eye where I am on my daily limit.

I’m still looking for the browser with the best tab design and management (sync across devices being a requirement). Arc was pretty good in this regard, but the AI stuff was too obnoxious for me. Now I’m back to Safari.

As an addition to the translation tool (context menu in Firefox) it would be nice to have a conversion tool for the conversion of temperatures and lengths. I know there are addons for this purpose, but last time i checked they weren’t good or they were a hassle to use. Opera nailed it a few years ago with a little pop-up window when text got highlighted. It recognized when it was a SI unit. This is a feature that I have not seen in any other browser yet.