Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Firefox
156 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by vldr, 4 years agoThe idea and fact that mozilla offers this is admirable of course. But the actual implementation makes it useless (at least for my purposes) and not worth installing an extension for.
The limitations:
- max 5 aliases
- not able to choose where emails get relayed to - Rated 3 out of 5by BirchTreeCoconut, 4 years agoWhy can't I just simply copy my relay address, why should i click on the add-on icon, click "Manage All ALiases", go to a new tab and copy it from there? I have Relay icon literally near of e-mail form, it MUST show my aliases by click.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Atrazine, 4 years ago+ Alias email addresses created on-the-fly as well as in the alias management tab
+ Automatic and manual tagging of aliases with where they are used
- inability to influence the naming of the cryptic alias
- Create-alias symbol in email fields disrupts password manager auto-type features, like in KeePass. This is because the symbol is included in the field order and thus accessible with the keyboard TAB- and SPACE-keys. Workaround: add an auto-type entry to compensate when FF Relay is active.
- No ability to use the alias to respond to received messages - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16542121, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rob, 4 years agoUnfortunately Firefox Relay uses Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). I despise Amazon and everything that they and Jeff Bezos stand for. Personally I do not do any business with Amazon and that includes Amazon AWS, and I wish that Firefox/Mozilla would find a better alternative for the core email service it is based on. Perhaps protonmail from Switzerland could provide this, which would be much better and ethically acceptable.
Regarding this add-on: The add-on works fine, but doesn't really add much useful functionality apart from being able to register an alias for relay addresses. The relay icon in any form field that accepts email is something that doesn't add anything for me, but it can be switched off. Instead of this add-on I prefer to use firefox lockwise for the usernames or email addreses and optionally the passwords.
Regarding Firefox Relay service: The number of 5 relay addresses is too little for my use case, also it would be good functionality that after switching off forwarding you'd be able to create a new relay address.
Some users have reported that some websites incorrectly assume these addresses to be temporary email. I believe this comes from the randomised hash in front of the @ sign. This could be circumvented by allowing manual entry of (part of) a username in a relay address. - Rated 3 out of 5by kokelolw, 4 years agola verdad no le encuentro tanta funcionalidad tenerla si solo es para es generarlos cuando puedes hacerlo en la pagina
- Rated 3 out of 5by livedehtfoeman, 4 years agoGreat idea, but txwo major flaws in the implementation:
- No way to quickly access existing / generate new email aliases from extension icon (it should display 1/ nb of aliases 2/ existing aliases 3/ generate new alias.)
- Relay icon on email fields clashes with password manager icon. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14873611, 4 years agoAwesome, just one HUGE improvement suggestion. On the button to add a Relay email, add the option to select from the already created aliases. Having click on the extension, manage aliases, copy the wanted alias, then go back to the tab and paste it is unnecessarily complicated.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14066756, 4 years agorelay.firefox.com fails DMARC on postfix MTA just like all other mails sent from firefox.com via amazonses service so this will only work for me until DMARC is enforced
- 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 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, 5 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, 5 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 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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
Developer response
posted 5 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, 5 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 5 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, 5 years agoSeems to be working fine so far. Except I am getting the developer tools box opening sporadically for no apparent reason.