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Why doesn't Firefox make it trivially easy to email a web page?

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I've been a long-time user of Firefox (on Linux) and I have always been puzzled why I can't just email an entire web page easily. I suspect that this is a feature which would be used at least once every day by everyone.

I know that there are add-ons which do this, and I know I can email a link. Why isn't this something that Firefox just does out-of-the-box? I'm using version 62, for crying out loud! Surely there's been a moment in time when someone could have squeezed this in.

I know that I can save a web page out-of-the-box and then attach that page to an email by using another program like Thunderbird.

And yes, I know that Emacs is an operating system cleverly disguised as an editor, and Emacs does it all … and more! (Sort of like "To infinity and beyond!") I've been using Emacs as long as I've been using Linux, and if it isn't possible in Emacs, you're hallucinating. It's just a simple matter of programming (which is likely beyond my capabilities. )

My question is about vanilla Firefox … out-of-the-box … in the 21st century.

I've been a long-time user of Firefox (on Linux) and I have always been puzzled why I can't just email an entire web page easily. I suspect that this is a feature which would be used at least once every day by everyone. I know that there are add-ons which do this, and I know I can email a link. Why isn't this something that Firefox just does out-of-the-box? I'm using version 62, for crying out loud! Surely there's been a moment in time when someone could have squeezed this in. I know that I can save a web page out-of-the-box and then attach that page to an email by using another program like Thunderbird. And yes, I know that Emacs is an operating system cleverly disguised as an editor, and Emacs does it all … and more! (Sort of like "To infinity and beyond!") I've been using Emacs as long as I've been using Linux, and if it isn't possible in Emacs, you're hallucinating. It's just a simple matter of programming (which is likely beyond my capabilities. ) My question is about vanilla Firefox … out-of-the-box … in the 21st century.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox's Email Link feature uses the mailto: protocol, which has a limited syntax and tends to be interpreted differently by different mail clients.

Long ago, there used to be a separate feature called Share where there were connectors available for different sites. That went away at some point, perhaps because it was a lot of work to maintain?

Anyway, if you want to propose this as a new feature, you could try this board:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/firefox-development

If there's an extension that does it the way you like and seems to be fairly universal (i.e., there wouldn't need to be mail-client-specific updates every other month), you could reference that as a model.