Firefox for iOS Community Forum

iOS Firefox needs to maintain bookmarks hierarchy state (i.e. keep bookmark folders collapsed or revealed based upon users’ preference) when organizing bookmarks. Like many other Firefox users, I have a lot of organized bookmarks. And, when iOS Firefox opens my complete bookmark hierarchy, it’s a pain in the butt to locate folders in which I want a new bookmark to be placed. If iOS Firefox could maintain my bookmark hierarchy state (like Firefox desktop), I could organize bookmarks so much more easily & efficiently. Incidentally, I submitted this idea several years ago and never received any feedback or action.

Greetings all, Has anyone seen the issue of when wanting to use the bookmark shortcuts that are pinned they get shaded over and unable to be accessed. I’ve noticed this for a few weeks now. When I depress in the address bar, it has always displayed my pinned bookmark shortcuts and allows me to choose one of them by depressing that one. Now, when I depress the address bar, a shade or shadow immediately overtakes the screen and disallows the ability to choose one of the pinned favorites. To access a pinned bookmarked shortcut, I must start typing the URL enter the address bar and then choose from there. Hopefully, you can see the shadow over the screen in my screenshot. Quite annoying and hoping Mozilla can either tell me what to do or fix it themselves. Thank you for any input you may have.

Mike

Whenever I click on the address bar in order to click on one of my bookmarks the page stays as if I want type a new website. The app will not let me click on any of my bookmarks. When tap anywhere on the screen (keyboard notwithstanding) it takes me page to the page I was already on. I have attached a screenshot of the page. This is what it looks like when I try to go to one of my bookmarks.

Hello, I’ve recently switched to Firefox on my iPhone 13, running iOS 18.5. And for some reason I can’t seem to add bookmarks on my phone. I can add them fine on desktop but on my phone when I tap the “add a bookmark” star nothing happens.

iOS 18.5 -> Firefox app Firefox 141.2 (59350) -> Menu (3 horizontal dots bottom near right) -> Bookmarks (top left) -> Add (top right) -> where does this added bookmarks go to? I cannot find it? I suspect Bookmarks are not being added from the phone. I sync between desktop and phone, currently having to add bookmarks via the desktop.

I’d like to request a layout change in the Firefox app for iPhone regarding how bookmarks and folders are displayed.

Right now, each level of nested folders is indented further to the right. When you have multiple folders within folders (which I do), the indentation pushes the folder names so far to the right that they become hard or even impossible to read. This makes navigating deeply nested bookmark structures frustrating and inefficient.

A simple fix would be to left-align all folder and bookmark titles or at least reduce the amount of indentation for each nested level. This would make it much easier to view and access folders, especially for users who organise bookmarks in detailed hierarchies.

I’ll attach a screenshot to show exactly what I mean.

Thank you.

When I initially press on one of my Bookmarks nothing happens. I must press and hold for a moment, wait for a list of options to cascade downward and select from the list. I choose “open the Bookmark in a new tab”, and again nothing happens. But… after making the choice from the previously mentioned step, I noticed a blue banner appears reading “switch” that I also must press on for the Bookmarked page to actually load. This is far different than Firefox operated previous versions ago where when you pressed the Bookmark the page you wanted loaded immediately. No other steps needed. What happened? Why does this happen? Can the coders please revert this functionality?

On behalf of the Firefox community, I implore you to honor this request and revert to what was a simple browser function.

Thank you, MSE

Windows corrupted my user profile so I lost everything... how do I get my bookmarks from Firefox iOS to my desktop PC?

When I sign into my desktop Firefox it has nothing - I am worried if I sync my iOS firefox it will delete all my bookmarks?

I don't understand where some bookmarks are when using iOS.

For new bookmarks, I see a row of "Recently Saved" pages on the home page. But I can't find a "Recently Saved" folder in the bookmarks menu.

When I sync with MacOS I see the new bookmarks in a new folder "Mobile Bookmarks". But I can't find a "Mobile Bookmarks" folder on iOS.

Finally, on iOS, I don't see how to access the bookmarks I added to the Bookmarks Menu in MacOS.

Hi,

Recently, when I type in the URL bar, there is only 1 suggestion from my bookmarks. Before, there were several bookmarks that show.

I want the previous behavior back so that I only need to type a few characters and then choose one of the suggested bookmarks in the list of results. Now, I need to keep typing a lot more characters/words before the 1 bookmark I want shows up. Sometimes I can’t recall enough of the full URL so the bookmark I want never shows up.

This is a big downgrade in the user experience. Is there a setting to go back to the previous behavior?

Regards.

[With ~Ff 123?8 and now 124 installed on iOS 17.3 platform updated a couple weeks ago from iOS 15.+ on my iPhone XR]

  For couple weeks , following any external link/reference, such as all 'unsubscribe' links from Apple Mail messages, Firefox opens but homepage rather than to the link/url argument (and url field shows blank, not display the extrrnal link's url address in url input box.
  Support history shows an identical problem in Ff ~117 reported (Aug '23, I think)   (if the condition of Firefox not currently running is same, which I haven't yet been able to determine) and apparently resolved then ( 2 replies, but thread is not visible because FF Support has it recorded as "Archived").

Hi - after deleting then reinstalling Firefox on my ipad I found that all my bookmarks had disappeared. I’ve tried re-syncing bookmarks to no avail, and tried to follow instructions to find my profile (‘about:profiles’, enter) but just reverts back to the same page so can’t progress, tried settings/troubleshooting but no sign of my profile folder let alone ‘Application Basics’. Are my bookmarks permanently gone? Any advice would be much appreciated (I should say I’m not the most computer literate so very probably there’s something I’m not doing right!) - many thanks, Cheryl.