Firefox for iOS Community Forum

The 'Open Private Browsing' shortcut from the app icon has been broken for years. Long-press on the Firefox icon → "New Private Tab" → it opens a normal tab instead.

Once inside the app, it now takes five taps just to start typing in a private tab:

Open Firefox Tap the tabs icon in the bottom-right Tap the mask/private icon at the top Tap the "+" to open a new private tab Tap one last time on the address bar to actually start typing

Address bar autocomplete doesn't work at all — not even for bookmarks or sites you visit often. You have to type the full URL every single time, including dots, hyphens and the extension. This causes constant typing mistakes.

You also can't open any bookmark directly into a private tab.

Private browsing has become so frustrating that it's basically unusable, and this has been going on for years. Private mode is one of Firefox’s most important features. These basic issues really need to be fixed.

Since the recent update 3 days ago I can no longer reach any of my 23 servers with self signed certs locally it just spins.

Works on iPad OS on chrome, Firefox, safari Works on work laptop chrome, Firefox, safari Works on pc chrome, Firefox, safari Works on iOS chrome and safari Does not work on iOS Firefox

I don’t want to have to switch browsers, I am unable to accept the certificate because I cannot reach the page it just spins. Not a network or dns issue read above. I believe the most recent update caused this.

I added a screenshot from relay because standard Firefox just loads forever.

Another thing to note, all http address work fine no issues it’s only https self signed certs and only on IOS (26.4.1)

My iPhone full screen is frozen in the Firefox app due to a pop up scam. I've tried a forced restart as well as running airplane mode to be able to delete the URL. But, this hack is different from the couple of other times this has happened to me. The URL is also frozen. After a forced restart the URL is accessible for just a millisecond before it changes to "viruvpnapp.com" and freezes. There isn't any time to delete it before it freezes. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the Firefox app. I've also closed the app and then shut off Wi-Fi and cellular and then reopened the app thinking that the pop up would not be able to connect. But, it was still there. Any suggestions?

When I am using Firefox for iOS, and I click on any text input, a bar appears at the bottom of the screen. This bar contains nothing apart from ‘↑ ↓ Done’ on the right. This bar is really annoying and moves the page around irritatingly.

If I click ‘Done’ it will temporarily remove the bar until I click on a text input again, and it will appear again.

I would like to know if this is something to do with Firefox or the device iOS settings.

This thread from apple discussions has the same problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255143785?sortBy=rank

A screenshot is attached.

I ordered a pizza and every since then, it's stuck in my browsing history and I can't get it removed

I've done everything as follows:

Deleted browsing history

Cleared cache

Deleted browsing and cache from my laptop (synced)

I know there is a prompt you can enter on desktop but can't work on android

I checked my bookmarks and it was in there but I deleted it but still shows up in history

Nothing in recent history as I have clear history when closing Firefox, I do press quit instead of just closing browser

There is a site folder you can apparently see what's in your history but I can't find it data/data/about/support something, I forgot the name

Can anyone help? I know I'm broad on the location but I cant find it searching after closing Firefox and deleting all my history..sorry

Hi,

The question may asked for a lot but... I have a Mozilla account with about 1000 bookmarks, years of hystory and tons of passwords, in brief, i'm locked to Mozilla ecosystem.

Someone gifted me an ipad, so my first thing is to install FF on this to enjoy the web as i like (without ads btw).

As always on new devices, i've looking for uBlock Origin wich is the only serious adblocker on the market.

What a deception to see that it's not possible to install any extension on IOS...

Yes, i can use the ublock "extension" for Safari but then i cannot sync with my other devices.

Guys i dont know what to do, all my data is on my Mozilla account because i trusted them for years, but my iPad suddendly goes unusable because the web with ads is unusable and the web witout my Mozilla account is unusable.

What about a fork with uBlock integrated by default ?

Thanks a lot

On IOS, for the last few days, the syncing of my profile has been failing, because of a timeout.

I have gone so far as to delete my many year-old Firefox Sync profile and rebuild it from scratch, reconnecting various machines. I have also carefully examined said profile, bookmarks, etc. I am unsure of what the timeout issue is, and whether it can be addressed, or of whether my particular use-case is no longer suitable (over the last few days) from Firefox Sync, which is one key reason I've been using Firefox more or less since inception.

Any advice, or is there a bug in the Sync back or front-end?

The relevant log lines are, I think:

2026-04-10 13:41:55.124 INFO [lifecycle] UIViewController+Extension - HistoryPanel will appear 2026-04-10 13:41:55.230 DEBUG [library] HistoryPanelViewModel - currentFetchOffset is: 0 2026-04-10 13:41:55.946 WARNING [sync] RustErrors - Sync of bookmarks failed! RequestError(BackendError("Request timeout")) - target: sync15::client::sync_multiple 2026-04-10 13:41:55.951 INFO [sync] RustErrors - Finished syncing engines. - target: sync15::client::sync_multiple 2026-04-10 13:41:55.954 DEBUG [sync] RustErrors - sync was successful, final status=NetworkError - target: sync15::client::sync_multiple 2026-04-10 13:41:55.958 INFO [sync] RustErrors - Sync finished with status NetworkError - target: sync_manager::manager 2026-04-10 13:41:55.963 INFO [sync] RustErrors - engine "bookmarks" status: Err(RequestError(BackendError("Request timeout"))) - target: sync_manager::manager 2026-04-10 13:41:55.968 INFO [sync] RustErrors - engine "passwords" status: Ok(()) - target: sync_manager::manager 2026-04-10 13:41:55.973 INFO [sync] RustErrors - engine "tabs" status: Ok(()) - target: sync_manager::manager 2026-