Firefox for iOS Community Forum

Hello, Recently when I try to open the tabs page on iOS 26 the webpages do not show up and when I scroll up they are below the bottom of the screen.

Also when I previously would click on the address bar I would be able to click on a pinned website and it is greyed out and sends me back to the same website instead of the pinned website I clicked on.

This has made the experience more difficult and I have had a great experience in the past with your browser. I know that Apple is very limiting with web browser but if you could address this I would appreciate it.

Thank you, Cameron

Recently updated firefox on my iPhone and the tab page has changed. I don't like the new layout, is there any way of changing back. Finding it confusing that the page title is now at the bottom of the thumbnail and not enclosed with it.

Hi! So I have been using the firefox app on my ipad air for a while now and in the last few weeks the following issue has turned up: Regularly, but not always, the app opens a new tab any time I click on a link. Example: I use moodle for work and each time I want to get somewhere in my moodle classes, a new tab opens. When I give the app a fresh start, the issue resolves for a while but returns eventually. I have no idea why but I have to say that it is quite annoying when you have to scrool through tabs all the time. Hopefully, you will be able to help me out. Thank your for taking the time to understand my issue! Sandra

I am using an iPad. How do you stop firefox from opening a new tab when clicking on a link? I want to it to follow the link in the same tab almost always.

Thanks for you help!

Is there any way the recent changes to the browser on IOS can be reverted in a future update or at least have the option to change the layout ? The recent changes make absolutely sense and are frankly aggravating as a longtime user, It honestly feels like a joke to suddenly have the tab names below the tabs and the tab menu at the bottom of the screen. Duckduckgo is looking more tempting with every recent update :/

I don't know what happened, I was using the firefox app an hour ago and came back on to all my tabs gone. Poof into the abyss. I didn't clear anything or close any tabs, I'm not sure how this happened. I clear my history pretty frequently but haven't in a couple days. Even when I've cleared my history in the past, all my open tabs remained so I don't think there's a correlation? These tabs were NOT in the private section and unfortunately I want signed in on the app. I looked up to see if there had been any recent crashes and I didn't see anything. I'm honestly so devastated, I had some of these tabs for a year and they all important to me 😭 I tried to look on this forum for help but most of the answers, seem to be directed toward those who had this issue on a desktop. Again, I am using the firefox app on my iPhone.

Does anyone know if I can get them back? Or see if they went somewhere else. I literally have nothing opened in private that I can see, and like I said, all my tabs in the general tabs section have disappeared. Am I cooked or can this be restored? TIA!!

I've been using Firefox for a good few years now, on my computer as well as my mobiles. After the latest update for my IOS (144.1 or 62735) and I've always loved the inactive tab system. I've noticed that some users have not shared my appreciation for it but as it has now been seemingly removed, (and I am unable to find anywhere in settings to toggle it back on) my tabs are now too many to efficiently traverse. Finding a specific tab is almost impossible.

Some of you may say, "Hey Truck, that's a you problem," and you'd be completely right! However since I do keep a lot of tabs on my mobile open and I don't close them down (because I usually go back and use them after the alloted 14 days) this is now an issue for me.

Wall of text aside, is there any chance that I may have overlooked in settings where to turn it on, and if not, could I please ask for that feature? Specifically Firefox IOS.

Many thanks, Truckmaster

How can we get rid of the invasive blue pop-up on iOS? Every time I get a tab I want to close, often ads I'm trying to avoid, I get this big blue banner that takes way too long to go away asking "undo closed tab" and ... I never want to undo but it's so frustrating having to wait for it to go away or switch tabs to get it to close faster. Why are they doing this to us? I'm switching to a different browser just to avoid dealing with it and it won't be safari.

I upgraded to 143.2 on iOS 26.0.1, but I cannot access any swipe tab gestures, which I assume means I can just swipe left and right in address bar to move between tabs.

this is a problem im seeing all over the internet, but nothing in your database. i just replaced my ipad with the newest ipad air m3 (2025). i have updated the operating system and all apps are updated since i just set it up today. when using firefox, and additional tabs are opened, they will not close by hitting the x to close them. the only way that sorta works is going to tab view and closing them there, but they will not close from the main screen.

how do i fix this? like i said, im seeing alot of posts on the internet complaining about the same thing.

I can't find a way to turn it off in settings, but whenever I reopen the window the last tab I was on is open even if I closed it before.

Is there actually a way to turn that off?

Transient issue where the top of the page overlaps with the task bar (whatever it's called on the iPad) so the plus sign for new tab is under the iPad's battery indicator. Can't close tabs. Seems to happen when reopening the iPad, usually corrects after a few times of switching apps, but very inconsistent. Deleted and reinstalled app, but problem continues. Others have reported the issue.

Feature Request: Tab Groups in Firefox for iOS

Please add native Tab Groups to Firefox on iOS. Organizing tabs by project, context, or mood would streamline mobile browsing. Ideally, they’d support custom names and sync across devices for a cohesive experience.

For the past few weeks, it seems to me, I have noticed that if I close a tab on Firefox for iOS, and at some point later I force-quite Firefox, then the next time I open Firefox, the tab that I had closed will reload as though I had never closed the tab or app. I am curious if this is something the developers are aware of and can fix? Or if there is some other solution?

After the last update the inactive tab function no longer exists on mobile for me. It has been more than 14 days of me not opening tabs and they are still there. Others I know who use firefox still have it though. The inactive tab system was very useful to me, is there a way I can turn it back on?

Tabs used to be in the Settings of Firefox on mobile, but now I can't seem to find it. I really just want to enable the option to hide inactive threads and it's been a bit cumbersome not having that feature when I always had it before this update.