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VPN app is successfully running on my laptop, but trying to activate it on my Android phone is always ending up in authentication error. Could somebody pls help, what can I do to have VPN on my phone as well?

Thanks!

I am not the most technical savvy person. I have Malwarebytes on both my laptop and cell phone.

My phone had Verizon Message+ until they stopped supporting it a few weeks ago. They suggested I use Google messenger which I downloaded. I am finding many things that it does not do which I use all the time. It does not have a way to broadcast a message to multiple people. It does not have the ability to copy a message you sent to one person so you can send it to another. I use those quite often to keep in touch with family in other states.

Does Mozilla have a text message app for an android phone?

Thank you so much

Joan

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.

Google.com Play store.com Telegram.com Instagram.com Facebook.com unlock Unupdates Unallvideo Unyoutube Unvideo

Ever since I had my volla phone with android 10 OS the fennec browser keeps shutting down in the middle of browsing. It happens to any page at any time whether in normal or private browsing. The times seem to vary from 10 mins to 1 hour of browsing, usually not much more. The version of fennec is 91.2.0 (build#912120) My volla phone is volla phone x serial no. GX290PRO0015214 build no. QQ3A.200805.001 Regardless of age or updating it has always done it and ideally it should not. The fix should ideally be more than just have you tried upgrading versions, unless its a known bug and a fix is available. Thanks in anticipation.

The Chromebook is slow anyway. I have searched the web and settings on the Chromebook and in apps. I cannot find any Startup controls or way of stopping several apps from loading. I use Linux elsewhere and am at least half savvy. it's hair pulling time...

This thing is driving me nuts,I started watching a video and it would start over and over,then it's comes up your time is timed out,I need to finish this this weekend, please fix the problem.

It started with Amazon/Kindle. Couldn't buy books through the Amazon App so I had a workaround which put me into the full site amazon.co.uk. Not anymore. Firefox redirects me into the App regardless. I can only get into the full site now by uninstalling Amazon Shopping. That's silly. Now, Firefox is blocking legitimate site links from my emails, like Greenpeace, for example. Variations on "site blocked" messages. Switching to DuckDuckGo avoids all these issues. I've been with Firefox for decades and would rather stick with you - I have two VPN accounts (and 12 machines) with you as well. Jon Lisle-Summers, [email address]

It appears there are a number of similar issues on this forum but they have all been archived so I cannot add to them.

With some websites Firefox seems to work fine. Other websites in the middle of an otherwise functional browsing session will completely fail to load, with or without a frozen loading bar. This happens on an android tablet and phone, mostly for the same websites. Sometimes I can come back to the tab a few minutes later, refresh or tap the URL bar and hit enter and it'll work. Sometimes I can copy the URL to a new tab where it will load normally. Sometimes neither method works, in which case rebooting the phone fails to fix it as well!!

On the tablet the reload button is visible on the menu bar, I found I can press and hold it which appears to do a different kind of refresh than just pressing it - I imagine akin to ctrl-f5 on Windows. This will sometimes work, but often not until a minute or two has elapsed.

I'm on Firefox 131 and has persisted for months so if it's something that should have been fixed in updates, it definitely doesn't apply to what I'm experiencing.

Please help! I am tired of having my browsing experience interrupted for multiple minutes or worse.

My default search engine is startpage, but I have to type something in and have the search fail, then it takes me to the startpage home so that I can actually search.

Stop keyboard and QR scan from appearing when app opened. If I want keyboard then I will tap search. I have pinned sites and bookmarks I use first and usually don't use search. Using search less with all the tracking and always wrong AI assumptions. Keyboard doesn't disappear when search is tapped. Doesn't disappear when screen is tapped. Obscures results. Been a problem for years.

Recently, whenever I go to a website that has some info/links/UI that should be locked to the bottom of the screen, it instead shows up and inch or so above the bottom. So I was part of the website on top, the a floating info bar, then a tiny amount of website at the bottom. I have included an image to show what I mean, but some websites have even bigger bars that cover more of the screen. When I scroll up and down the website this floating bar remains at the same location on the screen, just about an inch up from the bottom.

Is there a way to fix this?