Firefox for iOS Community Forum

Firefox has been running very slowly and sometimes becomes choppy or freezes when I browse. I would like help figuring out what is causing the problem and how to fix it. I am using Firefox on my iPhone.

Sometimes when I come back to the Firefox app (i.e. already opened to the last tab I browsed) the lower search bar is floating in a place on my screen higher than normal and I’m unable to access it. It’s blocking the screen and I can’t touch or type into the search bar. It requires a quitting of the app and restarting it. This happens almost every day at least once or more. Seems like a bug of some kind perhaps to with scrolling on the page. Would love a solution.

Version 155.1 iPhone 16e iOS 26.6.1

On iPhone when I select address bar Shortcut Icons are displayed but if I select one screen freezes and needs to be closed and restarted. Started failing this week and consistently fails. Reinstall had not affect How do I get shortcut functionality back?

Recently (past few weeks) I’ve found Firefox on my iPhone (iOS 26.5.2) has stopped loading. I’ll open the app and it won’t load the page at all. It also doesn’t let me reload the page, add tabs, or close tabs. Occasionally it will fix if I click a link from an SMS or something that then opens in the app. Quitting Firefox doesn’t work, restarting my phone also doesn’t work.

So every time I use the iOS app, whenever I leave the app for a few seconds to look at another app, once I come back it always redirects me to the home page. It’ll never bring me back to the page I was just on. It’s a little infuriating because it happens 9 times out of 10. If this bug were to be fixed, I would really appreciate it.

Noticed that Firefox on IOS was updated about 17 hours ago, so that may explain the current issue. When I open the app on my phone, it will be on the page I was last on, but would be frozen. Cannot add a new tab. Cannot add an address to in address bar. Nothing can be done u til I force quit the app, and then reopen the app afterwards (as long as I give it a couple seconds afterwards). Didn’t have this issue the day before.

Most of time when I open the Firefox app on my iPhone, it freezes on the homepage. I am unable to use the search bar or anything (other apps on my phone work fine, and I am able to swipe down my notifications so I pretty sure it’s the app misbehaving). I usually have to open and close the app a few times now for it to get going. I’ve tried closing all tabs, it makes no difference. I’ve also tried clearing my cache and browsing data but it didn’t help. Really inconvenient! Would appreciate any help.

I have Firefox 152.3 (73911) on iPhone with the latest iOS 26.5.2 On Firefox, web pages not showing up when switched between open apps on iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/switch-between-open-apps-iph1a1f981ad/ios

I can see web pages on Safari.

When I click on links that cause the browser to open on iOS, nothing happens and none of the command buttons in the browser respond at all after about a minute or so it seems to have sorted itself out and becomes usable. This is making the browser unuseable and may force me to switch to another browser cause I don’t always have time to wait.

Running Mozilla 151.1 (72455) on iPhone 13Pro Max using iOS 26.3.1 (a)

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