Firefox for iOS Community Forum

Hello there,

since the latest Updates, especially firefox 145 (63787) the performance in the tab overview is pretty bad. Closing a tab there needs up to 5 seconds. While the tab is closing the whole interface is unresponsive. switching between tabs from the overview results in the same performance issue. It does not matter if I swipe to close or close with the little "x". It always takes several seconds.

Seems to be a problem with the overview because switching between tabs by swiping the address bar is smooth.

I tried reinstalling firefox, but that did not solve the problem.

I'm using the latest firefox for iOS Version on an iphone 15 Pro with iOS 18.7.1

Thanks for your help.

I’ve been having issues with Firefox on iOS. As you can see on the screenshots, the URL bar section expands on blocks half off my screen. When I scroll down the URL bar is hidden and the issue disappears but when I scroll up the same issue returns. It doesn’t seem to be specific to a certain website and is really disruptive.

I’m using an iPhone SE, iOS version 26.0.1, Firefox is updated.

Initial performance is good, but over time especially when tabs are opened and closed frequently responsiveness to user input (e.g. tab switching, opening/closing tabs, response to hyperlinks) becomes very slow. After force quitting and restarting, performance is good again for some time. I exclusively use private tabs.

Hi there poor performance lately. I’m having to constantly pause my vpn of jump onto safari where I don’t have to pause my vpn. The browsers are freezing. Which is really annoying when I’ve completed a big form. I have to redo it all over again. Are there any issues ? I’m in Halesowen England

Do not know how to explain but since ios26 up date ipad tab bar and screen ( notification at top ) and ipad bar collide and makes using it impossible as cannot access tabs see screen shot . Dont know how to explain. I have to quit go back in works for a few then does it again. Will only let me post the facebook example. Have call into apple just wondering if firefox is not working with new update. Srry for the lousy explanation

If my blutooth keyboard is connected to iPad, I can't type any address. The input box just disappear.

If I touch the address bar to search another site, it seems like showing as if I can edit the address, but just after showing the animation to change to the editing screen, it comes back as if I didn't touch the address bar.

I checked this symptom with severa iPad devices and several bluetooth keyboard. I turned off, reset, took time, many other things to solve this problem but it didn't work.

I just updated my iPhone 13 Pro, running iOS 18.5, to the latest version of Firefox mobile (140.3). The app keeps freezing in such a way that I am unable to press the “open tabs” button to view my tabs. Restarting the phone fixes this issue for a while, but it’s been happening again and again in the last couple of days. This issue is impeding my internet browsing so much that I am considering switching to a different browser for my phone.

Hi I’ve been a dedicated Firefox user since as long as I can remember across all my devices. Since buying an iPad Pro and setting up with Firefox, as I have on all my devices, on the iPad Firefox performance is really poor. Websites often freeze and downloading pdfs from websites or from SharePoint etc. often does not work. An empty file will be saved. When switching to another browser I don’t experience these problems and I have no other software problems on the iPad. Running Firefox 139.1 on iPadOS 18.5 on a 13” iPad Pro M4 (MVX33HC/A)

Can you please let me know what your proposed fixes are for this? Thank you and kind regards Ewald