Firefox for iOS Community Forum

After months of using FireFox, it stopped and won’t reload.

Moderator note: Moved from the Firefox Desktop forum to the Firefox for iOS forum based on UA.

This feature is great and easy to use for Firefox (desktop). Would be nice for mobile too!

If it was added to Firefox (iOS), I'd switch from Brave which I'm using currently. Thanks in advance.

The 'Open Private Browsing' shortcut from the app icon has been broken for years. Long-press on the Firefox icon → "New Private Tab" → it opens a normal tab instead.

Once inside the app, it now takes five taps just to start typing in a private tab:

Open Firefox Tap the tabs icon in the bottom-right Tap the mask/private icon at the top Tap the "+" to open a new private tab Tap one last time on the address bar to actually start typing

Address bar autocomplete doesn't work at all — not even for bookmarks or sites you visit often. You have to type the full URL every single time, including dots, hyphens and the extension. This causes constant typing mistakes.

You also can't open any bookmark directly into a private tab.

Private browsing has become so frustrating that it's basically unusable, and this has been going on for years. Private mode is one of Firefox’s most important features. These basic issues really need to be fixed.

I think I recently updated Firefox on my MacBook macOSSequoia 15.7.7. Around the same time, I downloaded the recent update for Sequoia. I don't recall which occurred first. Since then, I am unable to log into accounts & if I can, I can't use all the features. Today I can't get into my bank at all (yesterday I could use Bill Pay, though not Zelle, couldn't see recent transactions, either). I received a message about Trouble loading a widget. I don't even know what a widget is. I tried switching to Safari and there are many problems with that as my password manager, 1Password isn't enough for them. I have to choose from the squares whatever they are asking for & that is difficult bc it's too small to see everything. I feel as if my laptop has been rendered useless. Maybe I should call Apple Care or will they only work with Safari? I have been using Mozilla's Firefox for so many yrs I don't like to have to change everything. I've played around with privacy & security to make things less secure & that doesn't work, either. Thanks for any help.

Anyone know what is happening? In the past month or so trying to view websites on iPhone, even on Firefox has become impossible.

The number and size of ads has metastasized to the point they block out all content. Is this a new trend? Is it my settings?

Who is responsible for this shift — the website ad settings or the browsers? Is it Google further breaking the internet?

For the neurodiverse, it’s an accessibility issue as well as a dystopian nightmare.

Please tell me there’s a way to fight this apart from permanent reader mode. This has vastly reduced our use of the internet. Each site feels like a trap and a scam.

The ads cause anxiety as well as irritation and general thwartedness as I cannot reach the content! What are these people/bots thinking?

Thanks

when I use Firefox continuously for a long time..., it’s it’s continuously become freeze and kick me out ....I need a solution of this...as soon as possible. .And i also need the group folder create feature like chrome

I used to be able to use NEVER REMEMBER HISTORY and still play my games but now I have to switch to REMEMBER HISTORY and unclick cookies in order to play two of my games, June's Journey and Word Whomp in Pogo. This occurred since the newest update. Why is this?

 Thank you, Rebekah

When I’m on a screen that asks for my email address, it shows me two addresses to pick from, and I don’t use either one. I’ve searched everywhere, and can’t find where it’s getting these email addresses from. How can I change this?

I’ve attached a screenshot showing what I mean:

When I use “generate a strong password”, it isn’t automatically saved and no prompt asking if I want to save the password appears, effectively making me lose the password unless I save it elsewhere and add it manually. I have noticed this on my iPad pro, but I am unsure if it also happens with my other devices. This happens in non private tabs, I do not know if it does in private tabs.