Firefox domin Android Community Forum

I think the home page changed with the recent Firefox 137.0 update on my Android phone. It feels like something that may have changed intentionally, but it disrupts my existing usage. I would hope there is at least a configuration option to revert it, but I cannot find one.

I used to be able to gesture "back" out of a tab into my home page where I would see the search/location bar, tab controls, and hamburger menu at the bottom of the screen. (See second attached screenshot for this normal screen I'm talking about.) I would very often either use the tabs button to choose a different existing tab or the hamburger menu to get into the full Bookmarks list.

Lately, the back gesture drops me into a screen where input to the search/location bar is already activated, so the keyboard is open and the tabs + menu controls are replaced with the QR code button. (See first attached screenshot.) My usage of Firefox on a phone is very different than on a laptop with a keyboard. On a phone, I rarely want to write search terms, so this automatic input mode is a frustrating trap.

I have to gesture "back" again to get from this screen to the original screen, but with the keyboard open, I have to do the gesture in the upper half of of the screen, which is awkward with one-handed operation. Otherwise, the gesture is likely to trigger keyboard input instead.

Ideally, I'd like to skip this activated search screen and have the tabs + menu remain the bottom of the screen with the keyboard closed. (As in second attached screenshot.)

But, I never use that QR code button either. I also see it as a misfeature to have it replace the tabs and menu buttons when input is activated. I feel like the QR scanner should be hidden under the menu or show up as a third button, making the location bar a little narrower without moving the existing buttons.

If the tabs and menu buttons remained, at least I could try to use them directly without having to do the extra back gesture. But, the open keyboard input is still awkward, since it shoves the buttons halfway up the screen and muscle memory doesn't work for the target.

I love Firefox for Android, but I wish there was an option button for automatically saving shortcuts, which when turned on or off, would not automatically save the shortcuts on the home screen. Please provide such an option.

Hi there,

I've been using Firefox on mobile to read health blogs during meal planning. Recently, I’ve been reading about diet and blood sugar—especially topics like grits and diabetes.

I came across this article I wanted to keep open for reference:

However, Firefox Mobile doesn’t seem to save my tabs when I close the app. I’ve already enabled the "Restore previous session" setting, but it still clears out. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Also, if there’s a better way to bookmark or auto-save articles for offline reading, I’d love tips!

Thanks in advance.

Every other time I open a weather Underground site to look at weather forecast for my area, I now get a pop up ad across the screen! It says something like "You're using pop up ad blocker and Weather Underground needs you to turn it off". So I've tried multiple times to turn it off. I'm doing something wrong, because it clears after I do this and starts up again after that! Help!!

I see that I can select multiple tabs in a collection I put together on my home screen, but where is the menu option to open all selected tabs?

Also, is there one to simply "open all collection tabs"?

I also noticed that I can edit the custom title name of a shortcut link on my home page, but I can't find out how to do the same for a collection list of links. I'm searching for user guides on the Collections feature for Android but not faring well at it. I fully admit this is my own fault and I'm sorry to be a burden. Normally I can troubleshoot well but I've been ill and the treatments are almost worse than the troubles. ;)

The entire page is not being translated into Bangla. I want to translate it from English to Bangla."Why is there no Bangla language anywhere on your website?

I use Firefox app on my samsung and the browser it's great, I'm logged in and in sync w my laptop, all my tabs are kept, but every other day or so when I open the app it's acting like I just installed it, I get some kind of "get started" pop up and my browsers set back to light mode and no wallpaper. It's a minor thing but changing it constantly back to dark mode and setting a wallpaper is getting really annoying. I've included screenshots of how my homepage looked before, what it now keeps resetting to, and that introduction pop up I also keep getting. The app is up to date and I have no other issues, just this increasingly annoying one.

Every time I open Firefox, since recent update, the keyboard opens on the lower portion of the screen, below my Shortcuts. Additionally, it places a camera icon over the 3 dots (...) so that I can't access my Bookmarks. This is very annoying, because I have to remove the keyboard before I can proceed. How can I permanently prevent the keyboard from intruding on my Home Screen on Android.

I have two issues using Mozilla Firefox on both my Android phone and my PC. Running the browser on either device with or without extensions or any security like antivirus running gets the same results. The first issue is that blocking audio and video in site settings rarely works especially on news websites and always on msn.com the videos auto play every single time. This issue has been ongoing for a very long time and I have reported it repeatedly and looked at the Mozilla support pages never finding any results or mention for the problem. People like myself block auto play to help save data usage. The second isssue has to do with search settings and duckduckgo ai assitant. Everytime I close the browser, again on both Android and PC, the search settings reset so that duckduckgo ai assistant is active the next time I open the browser and all of the search settings under the settings button on a search page reset. The only way I could think of to prevent this from happening is to uncheck site settings in the list of options for deleting browser data amd deleteing browser data on quit. This has no effect at all. Firefox has become less and less functional over thw oast couple 9f years and it really feels like Mozilla has no longer any interest in the privacy of it's users or even running a browser who's features actually function. Most of these settings are hidden and they all falsely indicate that a users choice of settings are being respected. I trying to report these issues one last time but I really don't feel that any big company has any respect for their users any longer amd the experience is more than just frustrating it adds greatly to the impression of zero respect for a products users. A fix would do wonders to begin rebuilding the trust of users in pretty much every single product out there as none of them are interested in providing any real support any more. I used to train people to do tech support and these days it is simply non existent.