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The virtual keyboard on my HP OMNI 10 tablet has begun popping up at every touch of Firefox. This makes it almost impossible to use. Expected/normal behaviour is that when you touch web pages or any app., the keyboard stays out of the way while you move around. When you touch inside a textbox, the keyboard should pop up so you can type. Touch outside the textbox and the keyboard drops down. Now, ( since the start of May 2025 or so, I think), the keyboard pops up every time I touch the Firefox page, anywhere. This makes it almost impossible to use.

For example, on a Youtube video, I touch the video to start playing.... and the keyboard pops up, covering up the video! I have to touch the x to drop the keyboard down again. When I want to rewind or move forward, I touch the video to get the controls to appear and...the keyboard pops up, covering the video. I have to touch the x to drop the keyboard and by then the video controls have timed out and gone away again!

Right now, if I close the keyboard and touch this page outside the textbox, the keyboard pops up.

In Microsoft Edge the behaviour is normal and in an app., like Notepad, the keyboard only pops up if I touch inside Notepad.

By the way, I did all this typing once already but when you said you couldn't read my troubleshooting information automatically, I tried your manual steps, and that took me to another web page. When I came back to this page, all my typing was gone! Very annoying. please don't do that again.

There's pics included that hopefully explains it, but essentially whenever i try to highlight a text and afterwards scroll down, the highlight bugs out. It seems to be happening only on powerpoint slides that have been converted to pdf. I have tried disabling hardware acceleration on firefox, but it didnt help.

Hi there

am on Win 11 with Firefox 139.0 (64-bit)

Up until recently, when I right clicked open in new tab, the browser would open that tab at the end of the tabs

Now it opens next to the source tab

I have adjusted about:config so many times to try and get it to work but no joy

my settings are (based on wanting to open any tab at the end) browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent = false browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent => false

Is this a known issue? Its driving me nuts as I keep losing tabs. Thansk

Jamie

Good morning, I use the 'Minimized toolbar' and 'Hide top bar' options, but when I move the mouse to show the top bar and try to access the favorites by moving the mouse, the bar hides, as if I had left the favorites area, but without having left the area.

Here is a video of the situation uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/s7JyiE2-NrM

In tests, I found that the situation occurs on more than one machine.

I would like the situation to be fixed, because I am using the browser to work and this situation ends up getting in the way, because I need to open the tab several times to be able to click on the favorites.

I await your response, thank you!

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1948388 & https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951239

This has been going for the past 11 years or so.

I'm wondering if there's a way to MOVE open browser windows in the way that you can move tabs around within a window? I do a lot of research and I work this way in order to go back to a particular subject and continue where I left off. Right now I have 20 windows open with any where from 5 to 12 tabs in some of these windows. When using my pointer I see only the tab that was opened in a particular window when I closed FF. I tried holding the pointer and dragging the open windows in the task bar...but no luck.

I guess I'm asking if there's anyway I could get a quick view of what every tab in every window open actually is, or perhaps use search words to find what I'm looking for?

Thank you any response ~~Bonnie

I've been using Firefox on my Windows tablet (Win10) for years. After I installed version 138.0, my On Screen Keyboard (OSK) keeps popping up. Very Annoying! The OSK pops up every time I change tabs, or click a control like a drop down menu or check box on a web page or in the Firefox UI. Seems like the Firefox developers may be working on this problem because in version 138.0 clicking on a text input box did NOT bring up the OSK, but in version 138.0.1 clicking on a text input box does bring up a the OSK, but clicking other controls and switching tabs still brings up the OSK. Other applications on my tablet only bring up the OSK when I click a text input field.

Under about:config I tried setting ui.osk.enabled = false. That does not help. Seems that another OSK preference was non-default, but I changed it back to default, not sure which one.

Help would be much appreciated.

I have a problem with a bookmark i want to drag in. On a website i have used for many years there's this one bookmark that's like an extension for a website. Thing is, it works perfect on other search engines but now when i switched i want it here on firefox too! I can't drag it in the bookmarks tab thing. It's a very long javascript code, but it's very useful. could anyone please help me fix this problem?

Hi.

When I dragging a link over the tabs bar, I can drop it between 2 tabs; this will open a new tab for this link, which is a great feature. However if I (accidentally) drop it right onto an existing tab, that tab will be replaced with the new link; if the tab had anything important (could be a long, JS-loaded waterfall page), it will be gone. I have multiple bad experiences due to this bug/feature.

How to disable this?

i have tried putting YouTube both from bookmarks and fem desktop to my Firefox menu bar and it will not go I am afraid to refresh Firefox because i am afraid to lose all my bookmarks and add on is that the only way to do it? please help me if you can i have not uninstalled Firefox but have reinstalled over what i have and still nothing I am baffeled

middle mouse button isnt working since update.

i had it so that a middle click on it would open a new tab to the right of the other tabs.

i have looked and checked browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick and its TRUE.

any suggestions. it is just since update i'm sure of that.

The last update did something to my search bar. I still have it, but when I click on it, it moves to the upper left corner, prevents me from seeing my tabs, bookmarks etc. How can I disable this annoying change? If someone has the answer, I would greatly appreciate it.