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Firefox introduces vendor-lock in, quietly removing all methods of exporting your tabs en masse on your phone that don't involve a Firefox account

In yet another move to enshittify Firefox and lock you into their ecosystem, Mozilla is hell-bent on shoving down Firefox accounts on users' throats by closing off all alternative solutions, or in this case making them prohibitively cumbersome until you cave in.

Since January, they are now basically forcing you to sign up and stay synced permanently if you want to export your tabs from your phone to another browser or device, or even to reinstall Firefox without losing them.

With the new Tab redesign, they removed the "Share all tabs" option, meaning if you want to bookmark your tabs, open them on your PC, or export them to another browser, you have to select each tab one by one. If you have 30 open tabs, or even 100-200 (I know there's a lot of you infinity tab icon people) , get ready to spend 30 minutes selecting each tab individually.

Diverging from every other browser, with this unprecendented move Mozilla decided to actively punish users who don't use their sync service by closing off **all** methods of en masse exporting tabs.

They never disclosed this change in release notes. Instead, they opted to quietly scrub the local bulk-export workflow from their support articles:

* [Wayback Machine archive with the "Share all tabs" heading](https://web.archive.org/web/20260205093256/https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-share-tab-firefox-android#w_share-all-open-tabs)
* [The currently live article with the heading silently deleted.](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-share-tab-firefox-android)

I use my phone to find things, and then switch to PC to look into them when I have the time. I treat my tabs as an offline "check out later" list, and I'm used to exporting ~200 tabs locally at the end of each month. I find this batching a much more efficient workflow than bookmarking pages each day.

Had to realize they removed the "share all tabs" option recently, and even after caving in by signing up and syncing my tabs, their newly redesigned sidebar on PC also removed the "open all tabs" button, so now I'm forced to stay synced on both devices, then click 200 times on each tab individually.. for something that was a single click both to export, and to open.

Sorry if this comes across like a rant, I'm just so tired with every site and service forcing you to log in and silo your data to be able to use even the most basic functionalities of their product, and Firefox always felt like a safe haven in this regard. Even Chrome lets you do this, the bar is so low..

It's easy to dismiss this as a minor annoyance affecting a small subset of users, but it's yet another undeniable brick that is building the wall of closed gardens.

Sources, evidence:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-quot-share-all-tabs-quot-in-firefox-for-android/idi-p/108748#comments

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/firefox-labs/restore-open-all-tabs-in-synced-tabs-critical-for-cross-device/m-p/112403

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2004194

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