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There are several sites that do not display properly or have interface issues. These same sites work properly with Brave or Chronic.

One is insta card.co when trying to install a card to my phone. There is an overlay popup that should display instructions and links, but is blank on Firefox.

Another is the Google business site used to verify a business profile especially when taking a video to verify the business location. The video controls don't work; can't start video, zoom, or switch main to selfie camera.

Hello Team,

On Firefox for Android, YouTube always opens in desktop mode. Whenever I try to access 'm.youtube.com', Firefox automatically appends 'app=desktop' to the URL, also cat ope 'about:cofig'

I have already disabled the "Request desktop site" option, but the issue still persists. I also tried clearing cookies and cache, but that did not help. This is very frustrating.

Please let me know how I can fix this issue.

Thank you.

A website has moved a while ago, but when I type in the first few letters, I still get the URL to the now defunct site suggested. I tried long-pressing the entry under "Firefox Suggest", but do not get any options to remove it.

Since the defunct URL starts with the same 10 or so characters as the new one, I always have to type a lot to get to the correct page. On the other hand, I use it to rarely to warrant a bookmark.

smb://u1:p1@192.168.7.2/11/22/file.mp4

This type of local smb/samba url not directly opening in external app anymore.

It was opening directly in external app last month.

Why not directly opening anymore?

It does open directly in external app inside chrome browser for Android.

Please fix this issue for Firefox for Android or atleast give option to enable this for a specific web address.

I'm not sure why certain websites (such as twitter or X The Everything App, and wplace) often don't load properly on the first attempt, forcing me to reopen them on a different tab and hopefully loading in this time (I usually have to open a tab once or twice). I think the websites somehow overshoot my phone's aspect ratio (I have an 18:9 phone), cause certain elements on twitter (X The Everything App) in the video player only show up while scrolling downwards, and it's generally only the elements on the lower parts of my screen that don't display properly.

I can play a song but when it switches to next one it pauses it either at the beginning or just in the middle. When I lock my screen it pauses it instantly when unlocked it reloads the page every time Extensions used: ublock origin

Galaxy A14 5G, Firefox 142.0.1

The products that are displayed in the thumbnail images in the Google shopping search results are tiny (microscopic). Opera and DuckGo display normal sized images.

Does anyone know if there's a setting in Firefox that can be used to make the thumbnails display properly?

The open tab feature keeps opening at the wrong times, is unnecessary and redundant. I hate the feature. I want it removed. why this was started is beyond me, its a pain in the butt, and not helpful on any level. I want it removed ASAP.

Kathleen

I have been noticing for the past few months that there are several websites (Facebook, Alternet and others) where the pages will display but links will not work unless I switch to desktop mode. This is annoying because the desktop sites are often much more difficult for me to read on my phone, especially since my eyes aren't young anymore. Using the accessibility zoom feature is often awkward and can lead to accidentally clicking things I didn't want to click. In other words, it's a pain in the butt!

Add in the fact that I often get the security warning that I've seen complaints about on the web the first time I attempt to load a site and Verizon's slow-downs and outages, it has been extremely frustrating lately to use my phone! If using ad-blockers and other extensions is part of the problem, then--as much as I like the idea--perhaps these should not yet be made available?

I have tried other browsers and not been comfortable with them, so I would like to continue using Firefox because of its features and layout--but this is getting to be ridiculous.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G.

Since recently (about a month) a new problem appeared: sometimes a website gets completely stuck. No page can be loaded, it waits on a blank white screen indefinitely.

• Refresh doesn't work.
• Closing a tab and opening a new one doesn't work.
• If one website is stuck, others are more likely to get stuck, but not necessarily.
• Closing the app and opening it back usually helps.

It's a recently introduced bug and most likely related to HTTP connection handling.

In the last few weeks I noticed weird things happening with the keyboard open. The problem is that my screen gets covered by massive grey bar, sometimes it leaves a tinly slit like in the first two screenshots, sometimes it's all grey and I can't see what I'm typing. Everything seems to work underneath because as soon as I hide the keyboard my text is there like nothing happened. Last screenshot shows the extra grey bar on the top of the screen that's not there in any other app but Firefox and it's probably related (it's the same grey that covers the entire screen when keyboard is on the display). One more thing I didn't catch on screenshot is the address bar - sometimes when I type what I want, press "go" keyboard goes down but the address bar doesn't, it stays in the middle leaving the infamous grey space below. All I need to do is tap on the address bar to show they keyboard, tap elsewhere and keyboard goes out, address bar goes down.

It happens only in Firefox for most webpages, never in any other app, it does happen in private tabs as well, with no addons. Everything is updated to their newest versions, I reintalled the app as well - no results. Am I the special one because I can't se anyone else complaining about it?

Using Samsung A53 and Samsung A54, Firefox version 142.0.1 on Android. Both phones have the same symptoms. 1 Device is logged into a Mozilla account, the other is not.

When clicking a link that is supposed to open an app (for example my payment provider), it works the first time during a session. When I try to open it again, nothing happens.

I tried toggling the setting to always open or ask. This resets the mechanism and it works again for the first time. After that I have to toggle the setting again to make it work. Stopping the app and clearing cache will resolve the issue once. After that it stops working again.

It used to work a few weeks again, so I suspect an update broke the mechanism.

Hi!

This seems to be related to whatever issue was happening on Firefox when "Fixed an issue where data consumption from service workers may unexpectedly halt (Bug 1941210)." was done and consequently fixed it. My issue in particular has to do with trying to import yomitan dictionaries on mobile and it aborts midway through and says there was an JSON.parse error. Looking at it on GitHub, there was an issue like this with yomitan and Firefox and seemed to have been fixed by Firefox (on desktop?) but this continues to happen. The yomitan issue on GitHub was "Importing dictionaries stuck on validation step #1765" and wasn't a problem on yomitan's end but specifically Firefox. I have tried importing with other browsers on mobile and the only issue I've run into has been the size of files, not the error Firefox shows.

Thank you for any assistance.