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So I downloaded the nightly Firefox after the normal Firefox app on Android failed to respond to about.config types in my search bar. The nightly, same result. The beta same result. It just comes up with a error saying address not found. I have 3 add ons active. Dark Reader, Privacy Badger and Video Background Play Fix which none of these turned off yields different results. How do I get to about.config and preferences configuration settings? see photo i uploaded of the error. I have startpage as my search provider.

The issue where Firefox on Android does apparent background restarts is still occurring in the most recent release builds.

This was first discussed in the now archived topic https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1379604

It is 100% reproducible. Steps:

1. Go to https://www.theguardian.com/uk 2. Open in background tab one or two internal links to stories in that website 3. Firefox is hang for e.g. 40s then reloads from scratch all open tabs including to other sites 4. The device will behave as if it was recently restarted with all other apps doing UI refresh activity when you next access them

The repro steps are truly simple.

Should we raise this as an iss with the website instead? e.g. Chrome does not and never has had a problem like this on that website.

Cheers,

108.2.0 (Build #2015925643), 78718ba91+ AC: 108.2.0, 9174b4e74f GV: 108.0.2-20230104165113 AS: 95.0.1

I've noticed this across devices on Firefox android. Happens on various sites. I recorded the screencast video to demonstrate it:

https://youtube.com/shorts/51u3Ko7CARw

When I replicate this with the same site in Chrome it does not do this, it stays open in Chrome. it only happens in Firefox

Suggestions for Firefox for Android

Since the built-in password manager is not good enough in terms of security and functionality, (and I don't think it will be good enough for the foreseeable future), it would actually be a good idea to build an app instead of the built-in one, or to choose a third party app as a partner as an official recommendation, and so forth.

I find the browser's ad-blocking features to be very unorganized, repetitive, and not easy to use. I wish you could build a comprehensive enough and personalized built-in pan-ad blocker.

And please allow the beta version's custom "add-ons collection" to be added to the official version

Anyway, there are many problems and many solutions, I hope Firefox will be better and better.

Thanks.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/save-web-pages-pdf-firefox-android

Hopeful for solution, multiple posters have asked about issue without responses

I have used links to websites added to home screen. These shortcuts recently stopped working. If I use bookmark on Firefox Android it opens. If I copy url to Chrome and create a shortcut link on home screen it works. Is there a Firefox setting that changed? I've used these shortcuts without problem on this phone until past week or so.

I'm on Android 11 updated to Oct 2022. Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G. Firefox 107.1.0 with "add shortcuts to home screen" enabled.

Thank you for guidance.

I updated firefox from version 68 on my android phone and lost all bookmarks and passwords. It's an older Samsung. How can they be restored? I've never had this happen when updating a browser.

I, like every other US American I know, need my week to start on Monday and keep the weekend together (who wants their weekends split into two different weeks?) To do this I've had to select UK English as my language in Firefox and OS. Unfortunately, this also changes currency to pounds sterling. How can I get Monday start with USD? I especially need this on my Android work tablet.

playing video on YouTube is always choppy and buffering quite a bit and the only thing that my router / modem is connected to only the smart TV by way of hardwired cat6e connection I could understand if this was wirelessly connected but it is hardwired and there is nothing else connected to the router by Wireless and I am getting anywhere between 100 and 155 megabytes per second so I know that the speed is fine and the only thing it does it to is YouTube and even if I adjust the YouTube screen quality from 2180 down to 1440 down to 1080 and then down to 720 P and sometimes it works on 720 but most of the to 480p and then the quality looks like crap and I actually get better quality when I use my cell phone mobile hotspot connected to the smart TV but that's ridiculous in price going way over my data so that's why I got Wi-Fi and it really doesn't matter whether I use the app on the phone of YouTube as a remote for the YouTube on the screen TV screen or whether I use the YouTube app that is embedded in the smart TV either way the connection are very poor and yeah I'm not really sure what to do I had the provider of the Wi-Fi come and do a test and make sure that it wasn't anything to do with the hardware wiring or anything like that and I also when I connect my laptop hardwired to the router everything and anything I stream on the laptop not using Wireless it works perfectly fine same with my cell phone connected by Wireless also works fine it's only seems to be the smart TV and I also tried somebody else's Smart TV see if it was a problem with mine and there's also did it so I know it is not a problem with my stuff