Firefox for iOS Community Forum

Hello,

I hope someone can help me with this little issue.

I’ve downloaded firefox to my ipad and every link I click, it opens in a new tab, instead of staying in the same window. I find it quite confusing. Especially when I had a couple of tabs open already. So everytime I clicked a new link,I didn’t immediately see that I opened another tab, and kept clicking the link (thinking it didn’t work), until I had multiple tabs opened, but they weren’t visible in the tab bar. It’s not very user friendly to me.

Is it possible to prevent a link from opening in a new tab? I’ve looked into the settings, but for the life of me, I’ve not been able to find a solution.

Can someone guide me here?

Thanks in advance,

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I work with senior citizens and some people with disabilities. I am trying to support them and simplifying everything as much as possible.

One woman only has use of one arm and one finger. She now uses 1Password she prefers Firefox.

I cannot figure out how to enable auto fill features for her account verification request requests from email (yahoo) and iphone messages. Also, I want her personal contact info to autofill (we did fill out her contact card in Apple contacts.

She uses a Mac desktop. Does something have to be enabled on each device or just within Apple and Firefox?

I do not want Mozilla to fill in Passwords because we’re using the 1Password. I am confused about what to enable on the iPhone settings and what to enable on the mozilla browser. Apple refused to help me with Firefox features. Please help.

Hi! If I click a link that is meant to redirect somewhere else (and I know that they do that properly on other browsers so it isn’t an issue with the links themselves because I recently switched and they worked fine) it doesn’t work. For example, if I click on a link to a news article through a post on X/Twitter,rather than redirecting to the site, Firefox just stays on a page that says “A server with the specified hostname could not be found“. I’ve looked at the settings in the Firefox app and haven’t found anything that solves this but I hope there’s just something I’m missing because it’s very frustrating

Editing text in data entry fields is difficult when using Firefox for iOS. Cut and paste are often unavailable. There is no way to move the cursor in any direction other than backspace. Delete should be available as well as nondestructive cursor movement.

   My attempts to place a cursor then move it in a field usually fail.
  Try these cursor movements on Mozilla’s own Firefox support pages.
   Oddly, the text entry field for this comment is better behaved, Still it lacks many of the cursor movements I mentioned here.

I heard from my virus whatever on my phone that Linux device had attached to my Firefox. I would like it gone or to know how to make it gone or I would like to know how to delete my profile so it is gone.

The share menu when using Firefox on iOS 26 that used to be a small modal window is now a (almost) full screen modal but the content is still the size of the smaller one.

Steps to see what I mean:

1. In Safari, on any webpage open the share menu. 2. Find Firefox as an app to use (next to Airdrop, iMessage and E-Mail apps in my case) 3. Watch as Firefox opens with a page/modal that has content that is a mismatched size.

Before I upgraded to iOS with liquid glass, the modal/page and content inside had the same size and you could not tell the difference. But now the new page takes almost the whole screen but the contents is still sized to the old one. See picture attached. The new fullscreen page is the off-white part and the Firefox share menu is the pure white part. Is this intentional or just a remnant of the older share menu?

Is this the right forum for reporting this?

iOS Firefox 147.2.1 (67326) January 2026

Translation Settings does not appear in the Settings menu on iOS

It’s a little frustrating, but I want to translate Japanese websites, Firefox is advertising how it’s latest December 2025 update permits translations for Japanese in iOS now… The App Store on iOS advertises that Translation is now available for Firefox…

And nothing. It’s about to be February 2026 in a couple of days, so surely, SURELY the rollout from December 2025 has finished by now? It says Japanese is available, and I live in Japan… what’s missing?

Are there undocumented minimum specifications that I’m not meeting? I’m using an iPhone XR with iOS 18.7.14 (January 2026). Is it rolling out by country, even though there’s no timeline documentation to be found that might indicate this…

Ever since the last update, I have been unable to access an HTTP site on my home network. Site does not have https setup. Site does require authentication. It my home network (so only accessible when I am home). Firefox immediately returns "HTTP ERROR 401 Unauthorized". How can whatever you turned on be turned off so that I can resume using Firefox (instead of Safari, which doesn't have this issue)? If your answer is "setup https", that's not what I'm asking (remember I said this was on my home network, so only accessible when I am at home).

I’m hoping to find out if there is any setting or option in the Firefox for iOS app that would toggle permanent display of the current website URL instead the address bar.

Noticed while doing a google search: after searching, the address bar truncates the displayed URL to just “google.com,” which is very useless in itself - tapping the address bar, however, fills it with the terms of my search. There is no way to view the full URL from here; you have to long press the address bar, after which you need to tap “Copy URL,” then paste it somewhere else, like a Notes app, to view the actual URL that was copied.

Am I missing anything, or is that the current most efficient way? If it is, why? It seems counterintuitive to obfuscate URLs like this.

I will clarify that so far I’ve only seen this while searching with Google. On other sites, the URL is still shortened severely to show just the domain (still a very inconvenient design choice that cannot be disabled, though), but at least there IS one being displayed at all.

Has this issue been brought up before? It seems like a relatively new change, and one that hasn’t benefited users, so I’m curious if there is some kind of workaround I couldn’t find.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Previously, on Firefox iOS, I would tap on the URL bar, type a search query, hit enter, and I would immediately navigate to the Google search page.

Now, in-between hitting enter and navigating to the Google search page, there is a multi second delay.

Tried to check all possible settings, but cannot see any place I can turn this on. I see that if I use google.com for new tabs I can use the google page voice search icon. Want this as an icon directly in the url text field