Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Mozilla Firefox
149 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Gijsbertus, 3 years agoInterfering with some normal logins where an e-mail has already been registered.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12164520, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, 3 years agoThe service is excellent. It just works and I can't discern any meaningful lag due to having my email forwarded so great job, Mozilla! However, in regards to this add-on specifically, I have a major complaint: I believe if you're going to have an auto-fill feature that places a glyph button in email fields, then the add-on should act like a password vault and let you click on the button > select the created alias you want > address is filled in the field. The add-on has half of that paradigm done well. It allows creation of new aliases and the option to take you into the "full" add-on management screen for more detailed changes. However, it's rather annoying to use a password vault that auto-fills but then when signing up with a relay address (i.e. my vault has nothing to remember yet to auto-fill), I have to go to manage my aliases and copy + paste them into the field. Again, though, I really value the service and it would be a 5-star extension if it let me pick and fill the alias within the current page's form.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16706737, 3 years agoThe plugin doesn't play well with RoundCube web interface. Limits email search options by rendering pull-down options (Subject, From, To Entire message, etc.) inaccessible when "Show Relay icon in email fields on web sites" is selected.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bertas_CZ, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Spiros, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by tbc, 3 years agoI do not like the limitations. I shall use RFC5322 subaddressing wherever possible.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Papa Doc, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rhonda Rondeau, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16691268, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13731281, 3 years agoInitially I was impressed. However a way to continue with more 'aliases' does not present itself clearly. Are there more?....or was this just a flash in the pan !!??
- Rated 3 out of 5by dali@52, 3 years agoHi, I figured out how to work it. The extension says that only 5 aliases can be used. Can you explain that? 5 per day, month or what? I would also like to know if one of these generated alias emails can be used to sign in to sites which are just temporary. In case it were possible, would the verification email be sent to the Firefox email address? I appreciate the clarifications as they don't seem to be listed in your website. Thanks
Developer response
posted 3 years ago5 aliases total. You can use the generated alias emails to sign up to any site. All emails sent to an alias will be forwarded to the primary email address on your Firefox Account. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14251876, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16649641, 3 years agoThis is an excellent idea, but I have been having issues with sites recently. The most recent one says, "Email not valid. Please use a valid working email address.
- Rated 3 out of 5by AC1556, 3 years agoIt's nice and works for most sites but it would be useful to have an easy way of auto filling the email address on new signups. Right now you have to go to the Relay website and copy the address every time.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16636355, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by vldr, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rob, 3 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.