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I was wondering how I could go about blocking websites without downloading an add-on to my phone? I don't like installing unnecessary things to my phone especially when it's just for one website.

Guardian.com (Manchester Guardian) always recognises me as joing from Russia when I use Firefox & Mozilla VPN through Vancouver, Canada. Is there a simple reason for this? I am using a Walmart tablet (Android) but believe my windows 10 laptop gets the same response.

in Calgary, Canada.

I am only a non-computer-network system savvy engineer

Thanks

Until recently (sorry, I don't know which version I upgraded from), it was possible to let media play the background with Firefox for Android. Media would show up on the lock screen and could be played/paused from there when open in the browser. Now, I have found no way of playing media from Firefox without having the window in focus.

I'm wondering if this was an Android change or a Firefox change that broke Android detecting media playing in Firefox, and whether this is/was intended, a known issue, or a bug?

I'm on Android 13 (Oxygen OS 13 on OnePlus Nord 2T), with Firefox version 112.2.0 (release April 24 on the play store).

Just got a Email saying some signed in on a android 12? I have a another phone. The android 12 may be my old phone. I changed my password word. Is moz://a real? Email me back.

Firefox android 110.0.1 (Build #2015933339), 43c570380+ AC: 110.0.1, 22ee42db12 GV: 110.0-20230213213738 AS: 96.2.1

Is there no way to open view pdf online without downloading it.?

Recent update causes all pdf links to be opened in Firefox on Android with no option to download, and no setting to choose a default behavior. They're was another person who asked a similar question and was told to use the "Share" option and then "Save as PDF" - this doesn't work. Another advise given was long-pressing on the PDF link and choosing to save target - it won't work when I am pasting the pdf link into the address bar, which is how I do it primarily. I'm stuck using the Open in External App, which opens the pdf in Google drive, then having the option of saving the file. So many unnecessary steps. Please fix.

Hello.

I'm facing a problem with the Firefox app in my Android phone. The problem is that the picture-in-picture mode of Firefox is not working anymore since a Firefox update was issued somewhere in April 2023.

I have always actively been using the picture-in-picture mode and I'm wondering why it is not working anymore. I have gone through the settings in my Android phone (apps section) and the Firefox settings thoroughly but I couldn't find any solution.

In my Android phone, the picture-in-picture mode for Firefox is on (meaning effective) but I couldn't find a separate picture-in-picture mode inside the Firefox app settings itself.

Could you please explain why the picture-in-picture mode is not working and is there is a method how to turn it on (effective) in my Android phone? I have Motorola Moto G100 with Android 12 version.

Thank you for answering and for giving guidance in advance.

So, new phone and FF upgraded, now when I download there is no indication that my file is actually downloading, either on the phone status bar or in FF downloads. Is there somewhere I should be looking to see if a file is "currently" downloading?

In firefox mobile I have removed ads onn and also turned off enhanced tracking protection then also while searching icons of websites not coming . But while doing samething on desktop site , it is showing icons.

I’m using Firefox browser 112.1.0 (build #2015944787) on Pixel 7 smartphone. Android version 13.

When I click on “see more’’ in comments section of an online post, the post does not expand. But when I click on ‘’reply’’ or ‘’Show more replies’’, the online post expands. See uploaded image. Note that when I use the desktop site version of the Firefox, the problem does not exist.

Is this an issue within Firefox? Could you share your fix? Thank you….

This is a person using a Samsung Fold 2 mobile phone. When using Firefox Android, there are times when the keyboard stops working. In that case, it usually works fine when I close firefox and then open it again. It's hard to turn it on and off every time. I don't know why, but it seems to happen often when I press the search bar to search in the Google search bar. If the Android keyboard appears slower than usual when you press the search bar, it becomes 100% dead and no chatting occurs even if you press it. When it is stuck, nothing is typed in the same way even if you press a new tab in Firefox and try to write on another page. This is a symptom that has been going on for more than a year already, and since a certain patch, the same symptoms have continued to appear, but they are still not fixed. Other browsers don't seem to have this symptom, so I'm posting a question like this to see if there's a solution to Firefox's problem.

I've been getting declined transactions from Mozilla due to my old debit card being outdated. Most likely something from the play store or from a roblox account from my son, but I just can't tell what is is. No info pertaining to what it was trying to charge. It's not going through and I have not received any emails regarding it, so no lost $ but it's just annoying that there is no way to find out what it is trying to charge. I don't believe I've ever input my card info into my Firefox account for anything, and it doesn't appear to have that option. I've never signed up for the VPN. But even if it was a mistake or signed up through the play store I don't show any subscriptions or purchases for a service. So what the heck is it? There is no way to find out that I've seen! My bank can't tell, I can't tell and so far Mozilla can't tell you how to tell. Usually purchases from roblox comes up as that. Not Mozilla. And this just started happening the last few weeks.

Android phone. Firefox. When I click on a link and am taken to view that PDF in Firefox, I can no longer read the documents, they're all garbled. This started happening relatively recently.