Firefox for Android Community Forum

Reverted to nightly due to missing the tabs and the extra steps to go to open windows is just a painful "hassle", so it's more an accessibility thing due to my chronic challenges in whole of my body. I would've stayed with plain Firefox but the tab function was removed from the "super secret" settings menu.. I also have a hit and miss on default functionality in FF nightly and I tried to find a feature request form so I don't have to fill up support requests but unfortunately I got directed here. I also like to note that in the "choose a category" list there's no feature request option or an option I can choose for default usage, app related, function related, name it. I choose Download and save because one thing has todo with the use of an external downloader (1DM+) and a feature that can be found in every browsed called "Copy text of link".

So FF Nightly constantly asking me which downloader to use. Why? It's clear I like to use an external downloader and it's counterproductive to answer that question with every download I want to do. These both questions seem to be feature request so I will write it in a way I know because past customers needed to do it that way.

Both feature request are mend for FireFox Nightly Android edition due to lack of tab support in the default FF edition loads of people usr.

Feature request 1: Select a default external downloader and fix this choice as default. What is the scenario and or use case? In FF and FF Nightly you can enable the use of 3rd party downloaders. After enabling this feature FF asks which downloader to use in the event downloadable content is selected within the browser. In this use case 1DM+ (bought through Google Playstore) is installed and used. This works as expected with a big but.

What do you need or want to have changed and why? Every time I select downloadable content FF Nightly asks me which downloader to use. In this use case it's 1DM+ and the FF internal downloader that get presented as options. I like to use my 3rd party downloader indefinitely, so not the FF internal downloader, for all my downloads thus making the repeating question, which downloader to use, counterproductive and unnecessary. The solution lies in "selection functionality" that holds the external downloader as default without questioning what downloader to use after confirming the default downloader.

Feature request 2: Copy link text. What is the scenario and/or the use case? FF Nightly hasn't got the option, while long pressing the text of the link, to simply copy plain text used for the link. If the linkaddress is www.abcde12345.abc and the link text is "press here to get to abcde12345" it's "press here to ....." I want to copy. Chromebased browsers have this option, even other browser give me this functionality so it seems to be common functionality that's missing in FF.

What do you need or want to have changed and why? I need this functionality to give the downloadable file it's logical name because the linktext involves its logical name and the filename of the downloadable file has a totally different naming convention. I paste the copied link text and for example change the filename that's been given to the file from "Bank_123565_XYZ_20251208_1115.pdf" into "Bankstatement AmaWallCost 20251208.pdf". Link texts are in most cases much more logical than generated filenames. FF let me do lots of things with links, images or any other components on the webpage. I can share it, download it, but simply copy the link text is missing. The solution is to add the functionality called "Copy link text" into the menu that pops up when I long press a component, say a link.

Unfortunately it's pretty hard for me to produce screenshots on Android due to accessibility challenges. Therefore I hope my text and requests are as clear as possible. Maybe there are possibilities but all of my questions and the use of tabs have accessibility reasons. It must be apparent why I choose for FF, extensions, privacy. I came back from Brave browser and hoped FF standard had an option to revert back to tabs on screen and not doing 3 or 4 extra steps to get to a certain webpage I've already opened. It really isn't accessibility friendly, that new webpage collection menu with tabs being in an extra list. Swiping from left to right or vice versa doesn't hurts as much as going to top right, look into a list moving up and down and do this every time I need to switch tabs. It's counterproductive as Ibcan arrange most used tabs next to each other to copy info or whatever. Normally it would take some time for me to feel the unnecessary movements but you can get quite busy while parting from a partner.

If there are possibilities, thanks a million for that. If not and these feature need to be assessed and hopefully implemented, thanks in advance.

Best regards, Marty

I use Firefox on 3 devices, a Win10 64bit laptop, a Google Pixel5 and a Samsung TabA. I have a lot of bookmarks and a lot of folders, and I have 2 problems: Most of the folders are missing on the Android devices, and it seems that many if not all of the associated bookmarks are there but not in any folder. I clicked on one the bookmarks and it showed as being in the proper folder.

The other problem is that if I bookmark a page in one of the Android devices it is automatically placed in the last folder used and there's no way to place it in any other folder or create a new top level folder. I think I've had these problems for five or six months.

I've tried multiple resyncs on all the devices, and also uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox on the Pixel, with no luck. I'm using the latest versions of Firefox.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello,

Since yesterday Firefox has been crashing within several minutes of opening the app. It initially appears to load fine, then begins to stutter and lag around 30 seconds in. At this point scrolling usually begins to stop and the Android UI locks up (can't go to home screen, etc). In addition the bottom Android bar usually flickers on and off.

The crash occurs whether a page is loading or not. It also doesn't matter which screen I'm on (the crash still happens if stay on the new tab page, load a new page, open the settings and hold there, etc). It also occurs when Twitter loads Firefox as its browser.

In most cases the app crashes with no crash log saved to about:crashes. However, around 1 in 10 attempts a crash log is generated. Here are crash stats from the two crashes that made it to

• First Report: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException
• Native crash - unhandleable OOM

Actions I have taken to try and fix the issue:

• Check for Firefox and Android updates (both versions were current)
• Clear app cache through Android system settings
• Restart phone
• Disable all extensions
• Close all tabs

I'm not certain this is the correct forum for this report. If posting here was in error please direct me to the correct bug reporting platform.

Thanks

Is there a way to shorten the toast message for closing a tab? I believe it's longer than 5 seconds (I slow counted to 7), which seems excessive.

My (personal, sure) reason for asking is that my RSS reader's "next" button is immediately beneath the toast, so if I've opened and closed an article I have to wait 5 seconds to get to the next.

My manual workaround has been to just leave tabs open and close them en masse, but that's a bit risky, given other tabs I'd like to keep open.

The message in referencing is at the bottom of the screenshot I've attached.

It would be ideal if I could turn them off entirely: I know that I closed a tab, after all?

Thanks at least for listening!

As is well known, Firefox China（ https://www.firefox.com.cn , which is now inaccessible and can be viewed on the history page in the Internet Archive.) The service was stopped a few days ago, which led to the removal of Firefox for Android from all app markets in Chinese Mainland, which means that users in Chinese Mainland will not be able to download Firefox for Android. After all, users in Chinese Mainland cannot access Google App Store. May I ask if there is any solution? Of course, I would prefer the Firefox team to restore the listing of major Chinese app stores.

简体中文标题：中国大陆用户如何下载Firefox for Android？

众所周知，Firefox中国（https://www.firefox.com.cn，现已不可访问，可在互联网档案馆查看历史页面）在前些时间停止了服务，导致所有中国大陆的应用市场都下架了Firefox for Android，这意味着中国大陆用户将无法下载Firefox for Android，毕竟中国大陆用户并不能访问谷歌应用商店。请问有什么解决办法吗？当然，我更希望Firefox团队可以恢复上架各大中国应用商店。

Hello,

I have an issue in the latest version of the android app. When I inputting any keyword into the url bar and hitting enter, instead of using my search engine to perform the search like in previous versions, the browser redirects to unrelated websites from my browsing history that vaguely share some characters with what I had entered and that did not show up in the suggestions. This makes the search bar unusable.

sync between Android pad and Win desktop only works occasionally. says "last sync nn hours ago" for a long time but then syncs regularly. this used to work in earlier versions

Hello, I have the F-Secure password manager on my PC. Synchronization with my smartphone is also working fine. But it doesn't work in Firefox Android. I can't set up an extension for F-Secure. Thank you very much for your help, Peter

'Hi. I noticed earlierthings glitching now wenttomy accountpage and they want me to reeverify my password and b it keeps saying wrong. Then sends me a email to fix with the number and says it's wrong! I am down to 2 or 3 attempt

Hello,

Firefox on my Android device recently updated, but when I checked my bookmarks from the menu, they were gone. I didn't have syncing or anything special enabled. Are the bookmarks still saved in a folder somewhere on my device or were they deleted in the update?

Thanks.

I wasn't sure which topic to pick.

I'm experiencing an issue with a site that has broken links. I contacted them and they asked me to delete their cookies. I am unable to find a way to do this.

Is there a method for me to do this?

I appreciate your assistance.

Thank you.

For the past two weeks, I haven’t been able to access youtube.com on Firefox. Every other browser loads it without any issues. I’ve already tried switching devices, reinstalling Firefox, changing networks and locations—but nothing fixes it. The YouTube app works fine, and this problem only occurs when opening youtube.com in Firefox.

On desktop Firefox, I get:

Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to youtube.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

On mobile Firefox, I get:

Cannot Complete Request Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable.

I would appreciate any help resolving this issue.