Firefox for iOS Community Forum

FIrefox suddenly started removing my pinned tabs, without me changing any settings. Why did it start doing that on its own and how do I get it to work correctly again?

I have iOS 15.8.5, Iphone 6s and the newest Firefox update. (Firefox still gets updates, nice and thx to all the helpers! its the only "popular" browser that does.)

My Problem: I open Firefox and go to a site. I leave that site open. Click the home button and wait a bit, click the power button or switch to another app. Then i open firefox again. There the website is gone and a new tab gets opened. It is the Home tab. Extremely annoying. I have to use Safari since that actually stays where i left. I want to use Firefox but this Problem kills the nice expirience.

I looked into all the Firefox Settings. Also i switched ios settings on and off but there is no solution.

Does your Firefox do that too or is it because i have the old ios15?

Thanks.

The latest update I am no longer able to easily navigate to bookmarks, commonly used sites, links that I already have open in another tab, my pinned homepage sites, or even my search engine in Private Tabs. I am assuming that this is suppose to (at least appear to) be more private, but having to type out each site name or open a bookmark in a normal tab and then copy and paste it into a private one, while certainly not the most difficult thing in the world, is quite a nuisance. Especially when I have been able to do this thing with ease before an update. At the very least it would be great if the option to click on one of my search engines still appeared when I start typing in Private Tabs.

Additionally, this update has stopped my ability to use Paypal when shopping. The Paypal login popup does not appear, and I’ve am navigated to a blank page when I try to use it as a payment option. This is not the first time it’s happened with an update, sometimes an update with (unintentionally?) restore or break this function. I’d like to be able to use a common payment method when using my browser.

Please restore the home button to the iOS app.

Finally, I am not sure how possible this one is so this is just a general request, but it would great if there were the ability to search through bookmarks on the iOS.

Thank you for your time she consideration.

The blue bar with the option to undo a tab close isn’t showing anymore, and it was really convenient when I accidentally swipe and delete a tab. Now I have to go back to my history and look for the tab I deleted, which is really annoying. Is there any way to bring it back?

Please please please add an option to automatically close inactive tabs on Firefox iOS. I do not want to do it manually, I do not want to think about the old tabs, I just want them gone from my iPhone browser.

Hello, Recently when I try to open the tabs page on iOS 26 the webpages do not show up and when I scroll up they are below the bottom of the screen.

Also when I previously would click on the address bar I would be able to click on a pinned website and it is greyed out and sends me back to the same website instead of the pinned website I clicked on.

This has made the experience more difficult and I have had a great experience in the past with your browser. I know that Apple is very limiting with web browser but if you could address this I would appreciate it.

Thank you, Cameron

Recently updated firefox on my iPhone and the tab page has changed. I don't like the new layout, is there any way of changing back. Finding it confusing that the page title is now at the bottom of the thumbnail and not enclosed with it.

Hi! So I have been using the firefox app on my ipad air for a while now and in the last few weeks the following issue has turned up: Regularly, but not always, the app opens a new tab any time I click on a link. Example: I use moodle for work and each time I want to get somewhere in my moodle classes, a new tab opens. When I give the app a fresh start, the issue resolves for a while but returns eventually. I have no idea why but I have to say that it is quite annoying when you have to scrool through tabs all the time. Hopefully, you will be able to help me out. Thank your for taking the time to understand my issue! Sandra

I am using an iPad. How do you stop firefox from opening a new tab when clicking on a link? I want to it to follow the link in the same tab almost always.

Thanks for you help!

Is there any way the recent changes to the browser on IOS can be reverted in a future update or at least have the option to change the layout ? The recent changes make absolutely sense and are frankly aggravating as a longtime user, It honestly feels like a joke to suddenly have the tab names below the tabs and the tab menu at the bottom of the screen. Duckduckgo is looking more tempting with every recent update :/

I don't know what happened, I was using the firefox app an hour ago and came back on to all my tabs gone. Poof into the abyss. I didn't clear anything or close any tabs, I'm not sure how this happened. I clear my history pretty frequently but haven't in a couple days. Even when I've cleared my history in the past, all my open tabs remained so I don't think there's a correlation? These tabs were NOT in the private section and unfortunately I want signed in on the app. I looked up to see if there had been any recent crashes and I didn't see anything. I'm honestly so devastated, I had some of these tabs for a year and they all important to me 😭 I tried to look on this forum for help but most of the answers, seem to be directed toward those who had this issue on a desktop. Again, I am using the firefox app on my iPhone.

Does anyone know if I can get them back? Or see if they went somewhere else. I literally have nothing opened in private that I can see, and like I said, all my tabs in the general tabs section have disappeared. Am I cooked or can this be restored? TIA!!

I've been using Firefox for a good few years now, on my computer as well as my mobiles. After the latest update for my IOS (144.1 or 62735) and I've always loved the inactive tab system. I've noticed that some users have not shared my appreciation for it but as it has now been seemingly removed, (and I am unable to find anywhere in settings to toggle it back on) my tabs are now too many to efficiently traverse. Finding a specific tab is almost impossible.

Some of you may say, "Hey Truck, that's a you problem," and you'd be completely right! However since I do keep a lot of tabs on my mobile open and I don't close them down (because I usually go back and use them after the alloted 14 days) this is now an issue for me.

Wall of text aside, is there any chance that I may have overlooked in settings where to turn it on, and if not, could I please ask for that feature? Specifically Firefox IOS.

Many thanks, Truckmaster

How can we get rid of the invasive blue pop-up on iOS? Every time I get a tab I want to close, often ads I'm trying to avoid, I get this big blue banner that takes way too long to go away asking "undo closed tab" and ... I never want to undo but it's so frustrating having to wait for it to go away or switch tabs to get it to close faster. Why are they doing this to us? I'm switching to a different browser just to avoid dealing with it and it won't be safari.

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.

this is a problem im seeing all over the internet, but nothing in your database. i just replaced my ipad with the newest ipad air m3 (2025). i have updated the operating system and all apps are updated since i just set it up today. when using firefox, and additional tabs are opened, they will not close by hitting the x to close them. the only way that sorta works is going to tab view and closing them there, but they will not close from the main screen.

how do i fix this? like i said, im seeing alot of posts on the internet complaining about the same thing.

I can't find a way to turn it off in settings, but whenever I reopen the window the last tab I was on is open even if I closed it before.

Is there actually a way to turn that off?

Transient issue where the top of the page overlaps with the task bar (whatever it's called on the iPad) so the plus sign for new tab is under the iPad's battery indicator. Can't close tabs. Seems to happen when reopening the iPad, usually corrects after a few times of switching apps, but very inconsistent. Deleted and reinstalled app, but problem continues. Others have reported the issue.