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Why does Firefox for Android not have a better tab view on larger screens. I want to be able to easily switch between tabs on a large screen. I have the Tab S10 Ultra. I have been using Samsung Internet on my tablet as it looks like a browser on a computer with the large screen, but I want to use Firefox, but it needs to be easier to use on a large screen Android.

Recently (a couple of months ago) a "standard" feature shared between Desktop and Mobile suddenly stopped working on my Android, and this cripples the use of many "secure" websites.

We could click-and-hold, long-press, call-it-whatever, the Back button and instead of trying to go back one page Firefox would show a screenful of pages, like clicking the drop-down next to Back on the desktop version. I could click on the bottom link, then immediately hold again and go back another half screen, and in two clicks go back probably 70 pages.

Why has this essential functionality been removed? How do we get it back? Can I roll back to a specific browser version just before it was removed?

This function is so core to my effective use of Firefox that I would choose it over any notional "security" or "stability" enhancements from having a later version.

Examples of why this is *not* a trivial problem--

On a banking or government logged in site, going back several pages (say, to before the login pages) is critical to continue reading the information you were reading when your session timed out (when the alternative is either try to click Back quickly several times but end up at the login page again, or spend half an hour following the obscure links to try to remember how you found the information in the first place).

On a shopping site, having gone to the checkout and emptied your basket, if you need to go back and place a second order for things you've just been looking at but did put in your basket, it is critical to be able to go Back multiple pages to skip over the payment security screens, otherwise most shopping sites either hijack the Back button or get terribly confused whether you want to pay again or why it can't display the contents of your empty basket.

On Google Translate, it's essential to be able to do this to flip back to previous translation attempts, because when you type text at the keypad the silly webpage takes every keypress as a new webpage in the stack, so you often have to go back 100 times just to get the previous successfully translated sentence.

Trying to donate money foe a youth homelessness shelter. When I click the donate button it leads me to a page saying cannot connect. I've tried a few ways thru the website but same result. I used to be one of them. I want to give somebody a xmas. Why am I being screwed?

I've seen a topic from years ago, this one https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1416148 On the linked bugzilla page, it is considered fixed, however, a few days ago I started noticing the same issue, namely, on pages from websites on which I have multiple logins, tapping on the desired username doesn't do anything, doesn't fill in the required login details, but the saved passwords firefox popup disappears as if it had filled the proper fields/data.

Firefox 130.0 (Build #2016041319) Android 14,device is moto g34 5G Regardless of the network connection used (mobile data / wifi), behavior is the same. On some days it works, and tapping on the username does fill the input fields, on some other days it doesn't work, tapping on the username doesn't do anything.

I would like to request how to get Firefox update notices on a Samsung Galaxy Phone. In "Notifications" I have allowed Firefox to send notifications. I always have Google Play Store disabled and the only way I can check for Firefox updates is to enable Google Play Store and see if there are any updates available for Firefox. I don't have this issue with my PC. Any suggestions or information will be very much appreciated. Thank you Shaun.

For the last few months Firefox on my android phone has been often (but not always) forcing searches with bing. I have all search options set to Google so this should not be happening and I don't want it. I have no extensions installed at all. I have also turned off studies as I saw reports online that this can sometimes cause the problem I'm having but it makes no difference.

I keep getting a message on screen saying "page refuses to load"; I don't know if it's a problem with the search engine or the browser (I have been using DuckDuckGo as my search engine recently). I haven't used Firefox for years now, and have never used it on my own device so I'm still getting to know it.