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I have firefox for android installed and have set up "delete browsing data on quit". I made sure all boxes are ticked and when I press quit it does delete my browsing data, however the recently closed tabs section still keeps all its info retained, in effect my browsing history does not get deleted until I do it manually and then quit firefox. I deleted the app cache and when that did not work, I did a fresh reinstall of the firefox app and the issue still persists.

I changed my password, and now when I try to sign-in to my account on the Android app, I keep getting unexpected error message with both password sign-in and qr sign-in.

For years, I've been using FF on desktop (Linux), tablet (Android) and phone (Android - Samsung S24+). Sync has never been a problem until two weeks ago when FF on the phone has either refused to sync when I tapped the command, or hasn't synced for many hours or sometimes days (which is why I tried to do it manually). So, I signed out of my FF account on all 3 devices and then signed back in. The desktop computer and tablet are syncing normally, but the phone still won't sync. When I tap the 3-dot menu on the phone and then my name, it says the phone has NEVER been synced and tapping the sync command does nothing. Under "Choose what to sync", all options are checked, but greyed out. Can't change them, in other words. When I access bookmarks on the phone, it properly shows what was there before the last sync. The phone is running FF version 150.0 Build 2016155439

Help!

For a few weeks now, trying to to type anything while using Firefox on android mobile is an exercise in frustration and insanity. It makes me want to tear my hair out. I type part of a word, and then it suddenly adds the autocompleted word after the end of the letter I already typed. It also keeps screwing up after apostrophes: I type "The car is Jo's car" for example, and suddenly the cursor makes a space after "Jo", but the cursor moves to behind the "s". The end result looks like "The car is Jo' car"s

I'm not making this up, it literally happened while typing the above line and I decided to leave it like that for you to see. Typing in firefox right now is maddening.

When I try to play whatever video on X in Firefox Nightly mobile, it just shows sequences of solid colors. Audio is still normal.

The issue happens for both GIFs and Videos This only happens in Firefox Nightly. In Firefox, the videos can be seen just fine.

All of a sudden, Firefox for Android has been using about 1GB of data daily. My Data Usage monitor says it is almost all Foreground data.

I barely use Firefox for watching videos or streaming anything, especially when not on WiFi.

I run two extensions — Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, both of which I would assume should be saving me data by blocking ads and trackers.

Data collection settings are set to Off. Autoplay is blocked for audio and video. Stories (sponsored or not) and sponsored Shortcuts are disabled. Tabs open for 2+ weeks are automatically moved to Inactive.

I am a regular Firefox user and I really appreciate the security and privacy features you provide. I would like to request a new feature that would make password management even more convenient: the ability to import saved passwords from other browsers or from a password file (for example, a CSV or JSON export) directly into Firefox.

At the moment, when switching from another browser or setting up a new device, I have to either manually enter each password or rely on third‑party tools, which can be time‑consuming and less secure. If Firefox allowed importing passwords from common formats, it would greatly improve the user experience and make it easier to move to Firefox without losing existing login data.

I understand that this must be done with strong security checks, such as requiring the user to confirm each imported login and ensuring that the process is encrypted and safe. If this feature is not planned yet, I kindly ask you to consider it for a future release.

Thank you for your hard work and for listening to user feedback.

When will Firefox Android allow backing up bookmarks to a file on the phone? I want to keep my phone and my desktop browser separate, so I don't want to sync. Without this feature, I regard FF Android as so problematic that I'm trying to find an alternative.

Hello, everyone,

Tried to download Firefox onto my android mobile, but it kept saying I have to get the app from google.

Due to my ‘thing’ about internet security, I will not use google at any price!

Can you direct me to where I might get the app elsewhere, please?

Thanx very much,

KR CJAB

Lately my Firefox app window will just randomly close while I'm using it. I notice most often on Facebook, but that's because it's the most often used page.

When I reopen the app, it's like I just opened it, not like it got minimized.

What's wrong with it? I have it updated to current version, as well as I've run malware and virus scans to see if it's my phone. Nothing found.

I was told to post here by mozilla dev from google play

When typing in firefox with samsungs keyboard it's bulit in predictive text cuases words your trying to type out to be put twice or random letters along with the word causeing you to have go back and retype the word you wanted to type out this can happen several times only temporary fix i found was turning off predictive text

Thanks.

This problem is worst when doing online shopping. When entering card details, I will often need to switch to my banking app to confirm a transaction. When I return to Firefox this will then reload the page, usually losing the transaction state and making it impossible to complete the purchase.

Hello,

I've noticed that recently that Firefox seems to repeatedly crash on my Xiaomi phone quite frequently. It's a Xiaomi 15 Pro on HyperOS 3.0.7.0, and here are some of the crash reports:

cde527a0-cc83-48d3-903f-951ad3d8e7e1 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 113430304 byte allocation with 33554432 free bytes and 97MB until OOM, target footprint 199480736, growth limit 268435456

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 113430304 byte allocation with 33554432 free bytes and 97MB until OOM, target footprint 199480736, growth limit 268435456

   at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3785)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:211)
   at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.readBytes(IOStreams.kt:24)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:70)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:13)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.intrinsics.UndispatchedKt.startUndspatched(Undispatched.kt:19)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.withContext(Unknown Source:78)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$load$bitmap$1.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:53)
   at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:122)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:4)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:3)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:94)
   Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [androidx.compose.ui.platform.MotionDurationScaleImpl@bf8206, androidx.compose.runtime.BroadcastFrameClock@1cc60c7, StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@a6c06f4, AndroidUiDispatcher@ed57e1d]

e0d3fa76-8868-48e4-8d6e-f66671ba8b50 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 33554432 free bytes and 120MB until OOM, target footprint 176034208, growth limit 268435456

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 33554432 free bytes and 120MB until OOM, target footprint 176034208, growth limit 268435456

   at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3785)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:120)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:95)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:156)
   at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.copyTo(IOStreams.kt:19)
   at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.readBytes(IOStreams.kt:21)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:70)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:13)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.intrinsics.UndispatchedKt.startUndspatched(Undispatched.kt:19)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.withContext(Unknown Source:78)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$load$bitmap$1.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:53)
   at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:122)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:4)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:3)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:94)
   Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [androidx.compose.ui.platform.MotionDurationScaleImpl@f557b89, androidx.compose.runtime.BroadcastFrameClock@7ff878e, StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@8ee2baf, AndroidUiDispatcher@7121bbc]

94125fa2-317a-47de-a689-dc7d3fa5f15e java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 31855720 free bytes and 30MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 31855720 free bytes and 30MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456

   at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3785)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:120)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:95)
   at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:156)
   at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.copyTo(IOStreams.kt:19)
   at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.readBytes(IOStreams.kt:21)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:70)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:13)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.intrinsics.UndispatchedKt.startUndspatched(Undispatched.kt:19)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.withContext(Unknown Source:78)
   at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$load$bitmap$1.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:53)
   at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:122)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:4)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:3)
   at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:94)
   Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [androidx.compose.ui.platform.MotionDurationScaleImpl@5cc155a, androidx.compose.runtime.BroadcastFrameClock@402b38b, StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@5cfc68, AndroidUiDispatcher@cef5881]

   c31407a8-aa18-4415-839b-a5323a693c3d
   java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 57411112 free bytes and 54MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456
   ----
   java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 57411112 free bytes and 54MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456
       at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3785)
       at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:120)
       at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:95)
       at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:156)
       at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.copyTo(IOStreams.kt:19)
       at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.readBytes(IOStreams.kt:21)
       at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:70)
       at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:13)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.intrinsics.UndispatchedKt.startUndspatched(Undispatched.kt:19)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.withContext(Unknown Source:78)
       at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$load$bitmap$1.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:53)
       at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:122)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:4)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:3)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:94)
       Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [androidx.compose.ui.platform.MotionDurationScaleImpl@46e4c17, androidx.compose.runtime.BroadcastFrameClock@eef9804, StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@36d21ed, AndroidUiDispatcher@1bd822]

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