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Long pressing the Android back button on the navigation bar no longer displays the tab's history on Firefox Android.

S22 Ultra Android 13

134.0.1 (Build #2016067655)

In Firefox, reopening the app pre-loads all the last-visited tabs, while Chromium opens a blank sreen and I have a button at the top right of the screen which allows me to select whichever of the last few sessions' tabs I want to have loaded. This is definitely more convenient, as I might be working on different things at different times and need different sites for that purpose. Can we learn from Chromium and make something similar? I think the best would be a combination of both, where Firefox preloads the last visit's tabs like it currently does, but remembering the previous sessions and with the button at the top right to allow picking one of them.

What do you think? And if that is going to take too long to implement, how could I program it for myself? Bear in mind that I'm not a programmer, so it won't be something that I will be able to do today or tomorrow, but I would like to hear some directions. And of course, it would be better if the developers like the idea and make it so for everybody :)

It's not showing recent activity - only blank grey boxes. And its not showing my things saved in pocket at all even though I've selected in settings to show it.

Im using version - 135.0 (aarch64) - it says its up to date.

For some reason on android firefox I'm no longer able to pull up a tab's history by holding down the back button. I can still press to go back, but there's no way to either go back several pages or to go forward if I have already gone back.

Even though my settings in Firefox are set to restore open tabs when restarting, and Firefox is my default browser, I was unable to restore my open tabs when my Firefox browser just closed on me. I went up to the menu > History > Recently closed tabs > Reopen all tabs and nothing happened. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks for your help!

There is (IMHO) some missing functionality / unwanted feature or call it what you like (bug?).

History -> Manage History

select e.g. Last 7 days, right click on Name and select at least two attributes (you can choose from: Tags, Location,Most Recent Visit, Added and Last Modified)

Select the first entry of the list, all displayed fields are selected/highlighted.

Copy (either with the menu or with Ctrl-C) and paste it in your favourite text editor.

Why is only the URL copied? Other fields were also highlighted. Why are they not included?

This is WYSINWYG (what you see is not what you get).

It is possible to export bookmarks as an html file, so why is this not possible with history?

OK, it is possible to query the sqlite3 database directly to get some history info but it's a bit cumbersome.

To do so,

  copy the sqlite (places.sqlite) database to some safe place then open the database (with 'sqlite3 places.sqlite')
  get the history info you are interested in with a sqlite query,
  e.g. select title,visit_count,site_name,url,description,last_visit_date from moz_places where url like '%support%';

But there is no simple (AFAIK) way to convert 'last_visit_date' (an integer) to something human readable.

So either include the whole selection when something is copied (WYSIWYG) or provide export history as an html file.

ps: why is there on option 'other' in the list of 'topics' ? pps: I already posted this comment but it got lost somehow

The icons on my home page suddenly became significantly reduced in size. Sure, I can tell what they are, and I've increased the text size for their identifiers below the icons. But they are now so small as to be not pleasing to the eye. How can I put them back the way they wuz?

I was working on my computer when I accidentally clicked out of my tab that had all my pinned windows on it. But then I accidentally started a new tab and deleted it. So now when I try to restore previous session it goes to the tab I just deleted and not the one with all my pins. Is there a way I can get all my pinned tabs back?

by jump to specific history, I mean something like search in library > bookmark and right-click on specific link then "show in folder"

it would be very helpful if something equivalent of "show in folder" exists in the context of history search, I often search specific site and wondering what else sites I opened around that time (relative to specific site I found on search results)

if there's any workaround or alternatives, please leave a comment! ^^

As of a few weeks ago I no longer get tab history by a long press on the back arrow. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you.

135.0 (Build #2016070975), hg-17c38d56ca55+ GV: 135.0-20250130195129 AS: 135.0.1

For whatever reason, a few days ago Firefox quit opening previous windows and tabs on startup.

And yes, ""Open previous windows and tabs" in Settings is checked.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Why are my 3 rows of Home page tabs now so small? I can go to about:config, search for browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b and change to false and tabs are back to large. However, they soon revert back to very small. How can I keep them large?

these are the entries in the Firefox browser history:

https://bcnexum.com/rox?cid=290db0db9e38fc7148ade83292dc1d2e8feb80f65d7f9ca8ce2a1dc41d9e529a

https://bcnexum.com/rox?ui=4b01s1i&wm=%7Eu-E&pub=wu-E&ci=%3CJ_x2Oq%3E&ppos=&l=K%5B&ve=7Dbn6&an=I_%7D%25Ia%22VxV&id=5162166838506080833360671375498520271&its=9F%5Bt%2AMq5d9bA%23QD%3BvoPWbRZ&cup=o%2C%3FRpArIX6%7D5%7Dr%26_YN6%29%28P%3F3Sdj.C_1ZIR%2A%23md%7BUQ4%3B%258%295&phash=23ly290db0db9e38fc7148ade83292dc1d2e8feb80f65d7f9ca8ce2a1dc41d9e529a

http://127.0.0.1:28951/lp?u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

on PC in used: Windows 11Vers.: 24H2; Firefox: 133.0.3

regards D.Hörmann 494EA59D73C77A2C85B2D6D3A63253CCECA2CDE8DC02FF708AFB7F063641FE55B56971E3995B7E5D9F28E1226BEFECC908F8E8153E1331502D123B063B648843CE9097C3B68C3FC5A98404FA4E04FBD4BB8F54E7370572 45A8823C3CA65259C68CB9CD9081972EC5E8102FBFE44A29545E0307224C888F72A93776E71D8200022FD0F8BCF3D9E5E6E0