Firefox ar iOS Community Forum

Initial performance is good, but over time especially when tabs are opened and closed frequently responsiveness to user input (e.g. tab switching, opening/closing tabs, response to hyperlinks) becomes very slow. After force quitting and restarting, performance is good again for some time. I exclusively use private tabs.

So the main reason I use Firefox instead of Google or other browsers is because it specifically *doesn’t* have AI features, since AI storing my information is a privacy/security risk that I am not interested in taking. Firefox is one of the only browsers out there that isn’t annoyingly pushing for AI to be integrated into every single aspect of the service. I’m not interested. I don’t want it. Mozilla, you’re wasting your time and money integrating features that your users DO NOT WANT. Please allow users to press one button to disable machine learning features instead of burying the switches in about:config. I don’t want AI on my browser.

I recently updated to iOS 26 and now I'm getting a recurring UI glitch. When I'm in dark mode and switching tabs, the "private/tabs/sync" bar will turn completely white, except for the "Tabs" text, if it falls over two white tabs. This only happens in dark mode, not light mode.

Anyone else encountering this? There's no way that it's an intentional design choice to make the menus unreadable.

Hi.

I like to switch tabs in the iOS app with some gesture. Is that possible?

The only thing I found in the documentation is that some keybinding exists, but I do not have a keyboard attached to my phone.

I also found some old request and some Reddit posts that swiping the address bar would do the trick. This did not work for me.

I am hoping for something like a three finger swipe anywhere, but have not spent much thought on a perfect UI integration.

I love to learn how to make switching TABs by gesture work.

Thank you for your work! Oliver

I use an iPad, often with a magic keyboard w/a touchpad. I don't know if it's an issue only with the touchpad or if it's an issue with the touchscreen too, but the "scrolling up/swiping down to refresh page" thing is really sensitive, and it's caused me to wipe out input fields on accident, forcing me to constantly "Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C" to make sure I can retrieve long blocks of text if I accidentally scroll up a little too hard 🙄

Please tell me if there's a way to disable this: on the Android Firefox app I use (Samsung Galaxy S21 FE), it's possible to disable it, but I can't find the setting on my iPad's Firefox app. If there's no way, I'd really love if it was added!! 🙏 Or at least some kind of "sensitivity level" thing.

Thank you Firefox volunteers and staff for your hard work and grace, patience, and diligence in all you do.

(Apple has a tendency to ensure their devices restrict users ability to personalize their experience and implement the types of quality-of-life tweaks Apple refuses to add (for another 3+ years, at least). So I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing isn't even possible on iOS/iPad OS...)

Edit1: Silly formatting

My current web pages are showing no pictures within individual web pages like they normally do. Do I have something turned off by mistake. Please advise.

Raymond M.

Hello Support Team,

I am unable to log into my account because I recently changed my mobile device and no longer have access through the previous method. I kindly request your assistance in regaining access to my account.

Details:

• I created this account in 2008. • My password is: Afghan!2018 • The email linked to this account is also registered with my Apple ID, and I currently have full access to the email inbox. • I still have the recovery emails you previously sent me.

Thank you for your support and guidance.

Best regards, Najib

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Would you like me to also prepare a shorter, more formal version (without the password included) so it looks safer and more professional when sending to support?

While taking my old ipad 2 out of the drawer to watch youtube video it kept crashing while using chrome and opera. Finally, decided to use Firefox and youtube is running great! I know the old saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it" but couldn't help to resist asking if there is any settings in firefox to optimize watching youtube videos on old iOS devices.

something new is happening where I am opening up a webpage in Firefox to read an article, and my podcast that I'm listening to in the also open podcast app suddenly drops out and music starts playing from an ad on the website, even though I have not yet scrolled far enough down in the article to even see they had much less given it permission to play at me.

Blocking this kind of interference is why I have exclusively used Firefox as my web browser on iOS as well as on my laptop computers. I'm very disappointed to see this and hoping that someone will point out to me a simple change of settings that will keep this kind of random noise pollution at bay.

iOS26.1 iPhone 12mini

I upgraded to 143.2 on iOS 26.0.1, but I cannot access any swipe tab gestures, which I assume means I can just swipe left and right in address bar to move between tabs.