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June 15, 2026

Dear Mozilla Firefox:

Re: Very Transient Search Specifications

Having disabled AI search capabilities satisfactorily, I am now plagued with re-establishing search specifications innumerable times a session. I open a tab. I set my safe search requirements followed by several items under “All Search Settings,” then save and Exit. I open a new tab and repeat all the steps. I back up out of that search list, not backing up past the window with the saved settings to find they are nevertheless reset back to default, necessitating that I repeat all the steps. I leave this window of Firefox open but minimized and open a new Firefox window and repeat all the steps.

Of what use is saving the settings? They don’t persist within tabs, across tabs, or across windows. These inconveniences began with the introduction of AI services to Firefox. Yes, I delete cookies and set other parameters in the name of privacy, but not with the expectation that saving search settings during a session will prove meaningless. Please let me know and understand how to have both privacy and utility.

A long time Firefox user and supporter.

Hello,

I want to make Saved Searches

So the 3rd step is to choose your folders.

I have a TON of folders and mostly I want to

Start from all folders and only unselect a few of them.

But here it starts from all subfolder collapsed and all folders unselected.

So for me the first step is to manually expand all folders, and subfolder and subsubsubfolders and so on.

And then go down the entire list and select every single one.

And THEN start from the top of the list again and now, choose which one in particular I want to exclude.

I know this sounds like, I should just check the ones I want to include.

But for some reason, that feels completely impossible to do. I can only unselect the ones I don't want and it feels impossible to only select the ones I want "which is all except a few"....

Usually, I never make it to the end and just give up before I get to the stage where I would start unchecking the ones I don't want.

So, this is the reason for this question.

"In Create Saved Search, Choose Folder dialog, how to select all and expand all folders ?"

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If I disconnect my keyboard, I can click in there and use the on screen keyboard. Once I do that and enter anything [and hit enter], then it will work from that point. So this appears to only affect initial use of the app. I can click up there and type anything after that first submission and it works.

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Firefox will not open any search in a new tab. It opens them in the search results tab only. I have an x86-64 notebook and an x86-64 desktop running Xubuntu that are using the same settings, and they function properly.

Am I missing something? Is this a peculiarity to the arm version of Firefox? Is there another setting specific the Raspberry Pi or arm Firefox that I have to change?

Cheers!

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