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when Google share links are sent to me, they won't open in Firefox. I have to copy and paste the entire uRL and open Chrome in order to view them on my android device. Pixel 9

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm having a problem where I can't get the old menu UI back. I've done everything I could and turned off what I was supposed to to use the old menu for android but I woke up this morning and everything it back to the new UI. Everything is still turned off to make sure I was using the old menu where everything was to the right of the screen but it still won't come back up the way it's supposed to and now I don't really have a clue what to do?

I have an issues while typing certain phrases for example: 1-while typing "8oh" after typing "h" it autocorrect to "88oho" and place cursor behind last "o" so result looks like "88oh|o" where "|" is the cursor. 2-while typing "34-34W" after typing "W" it autocorrect to "34-334-34W4" and place cursor behind last "4" so result looks like this "34-334-34W|4" where "|" is the cursor. It is occurring everywhere like in search engine Google, while typing comments on YouTube and even in this particular window while typing about this issue. It does not occurre in adres bar. It does not occurred while writing without text prediction. It occurred even autocorrect is disable.

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]

Hello.

My problem is exactly what the title says. After I clear my history, Firefox still suggests me websites (not in my bookmarks). In the settings, when "search browsing history" is enabled, I get suggested some websites I used in the past even after clearing all time history. If I disable "search browsing history", then only the websites are not suggested. I already cleared everything like site data and cookies, all time browsing history etc.

I've attached 2 Screenshots: First screenshot is of the "search browsing history" setting. Second screenshot is of the search suggestion. There are 2 markings which mean: 1. (Main Problem) The suggested website by Firefox, which shouldn't appear after history cleanup. (It doesn't appear when the setting is off.) 2. This suggested website is different and in my bookmarks and is not a problem. (I am only mentioning it because I know the concerning website is not in my bookmarks.)

I use same sync account for Windows and Android and I don't have this problem on Windows. What should I do? Thank you for your time.

the app just asked me if i my experience was good and this is where the link brought me. The firefox mobile app on android is performing teribly over last few updates. websites take 1000x times longer to load some elements. it feels like the cache gets full after loading 10 images. youtube videos take nearly 30 seconds to load on gigabit internet. marketplaces just wont load images. it gets stuck buffereing images and videos. the easiest fix is to switch browsers which completely eliminates issues. this is happening on multiple android devices. either the code for this app is ruined or compromized. the problem is not on my linux or mac devices. I really have loved firefox up to this point, and its sad that after 1 month of questionable management the browser is starting to break down. i am now forced to switch just so i can use the internet. also side not if there was ever a way to get themes on mobile browser that would be nice.

I tried it, it loads through EDGE, but through yours, if I enter it into the search, it loads at 70%, but the page still seems to work, albeit slowly. I didn’t have such problems with EDGE

The 149 update made the tab previews much larger and even though that is probably a great change for people with vision problems, I find the extra space it takes up annoying as I tend to have a lot of active tabs and it makes it harder to scroll through them all. Is there a way to change the size of the tab previews or better yet, turn them off completely? I honestly prefer how the inactive tabs menu just has the text title of the page.

I recently had my firefox mobile for android updated apparently, but it is so user unfriendly and not very accessible in the way that the new layout with the dark tabs and small pictures makes it very hard to read which tabs are open and is unfriendly on the eyes. Is there any way I can revert back to the previous version? I really loved the layout and the user friendliness of it and now I am just considering downloading another browser because I am so bummed by this update. Thanks in advance.

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.