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… (read more)
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.