Firefox for Android Community Forum

On my Android samsung phone, I often need to switch from Firefox app to Aquamail app and then back to Firefox app .

The reason is to read the code sent to confirm identity (for MFA)

The concern is when I'm back to Firefox app, it refreshes the Firefox page and ... the browsed website send again another code in a new mail... This loop prevents me definitively the connection to the browsed website!

(Unless I have a separate PC to read mails without leaving Firefox app on my phone).

It happens for about 75% of the websites I need. And is probably linked to the manner the different websites are written.

I precise than I accepted cookies from all these websites ( hotels, regular buying, electric car loading, etc).

What can I do on Firefox options or on Android options to avoid the concern, which is really a blocking point  ?

Thanks for any help. Ulysse

Samsung A32 Android 10 Android Firefox last version Android Aquamail 1.59

I NEVER want Firefox to open a link in an external app. If I wanted to use an external app, I wouldn't be using Firefox. As far as I can tell, however, it's impossible to tell Firefox to never open links in other apos, only to always do it.

This means that when I, for example, want to browse Amazon in Firefox so that I can compare multiple products in different tabs, I have to tell Firefox to stay in Firefox instead of opening the Amazon app in EVERY. SINGLE. TAB. Sometimes more than once.

It also means that if I want to browse anything from any company that likes to track my activity when I use its app WITHOUT being tracked, I have to constantly confirm that I want to stay in Firefox, where I have tracking blocked.

It's annoying and increasingly exhausting. Why can't I set my preferences to "never" as well as "always" open in external apps? I don't want to have to keep answering the question when my answer will always be the same. What gives?!

First, I dont want the Autora launcher. Nobody I know does. Let me turn it off on the settings instead of in the about;config. I already know 1 person in my circle that moved on from Firefox because of it.

Second, the browser just asked me if Firefox is giving me issues. I said yes. It said leave feedback. I clicked it. It didn't let me leave feedback. What the helly man....it feels like nobody went, lets make a button and see what it actually does aka untested vibe coded AI slop. I ended up clicking a bunch of buttons and ended up here. Stop making Firefox worse. It's not how you're gonna get more customers. If you are dead set on contantly changing stuff at least let me turn it off easily like you did with the AI stuff.

Speaking of, third, the settings are a lot less clear to me compared to 2ish years ago. I don't know what happened but I was always able to find everything but now I struggle getting to the right page.

What I'm trying to say is, please don't make me go back to Chrome. I like supporting the alternative but if you're actively gonna make it worse I probably will just like my buddy already did.

For some reason, every time I open a link, the desktop site setting is on when I browse on my phone. I used to have it set to off but something is overriding that now. I have to turn it off every time now.

I have the new VPN feature disabled, but I cannot remove it from the main menu reachable from the url bar (three dots). Even after turning it off, it stays at the top. Please let me remove it from the shelf. It is very distracting.

Maybe the settings page for it could also have a toggle to show/hide the VPN in edition to enable/disable. I tried the nimbus experiments and debug settings but the opt out does not persist.

In the short term, a secret setting would be appreciated.

On Firefox mobile for Android there's a huge first in the list button pushing your vpn, i hate it and want it removed but there's no option to do so, i don't want it or need, same with your lackluster ai features.

In the past ive donate multiple times to the Mozilla foundation, but will no longer, while they push bad redesigns and feature i neither want nor can hide.

I need to be able to switch the immediate function of tapping the url header back to how it was. I shouldn't have to tap another button to view, copy, and/or edit the url.

When I try to open some links, Firefox gives me the option to "Always open links on apps".

This needs to be fixed. Instead of the option to Always open links in apps, it should be changed to always open links of that type in the external app. I may want torrent links to open in external apps, but maybe I don't want Reddit to automatically do the same thing.

Every time I need to launch privacy mode in the Android app, I can't find the button or a link. I don't use it that often, but it's important when I do need it. Each time I need it I spend a lot of wasted time looking for it. Ultimately I have to ask Google Gemini how to do it. 1) I don't want to keep asking AI how to do it. It ought to be easier to find. 2) I don't want a shortcut on my Android desktop with its limited, valuable real estate.

After thinking about it, it occurs to me that adding the ability to add a privacy mode shortcut to the toolbar might be simple for the developers and it would solve my problem. It's too bad I can't add more than one shortcut to the toolbar in Settings, but a privacy mode shortcut is the one I'd select... if only one were available. (sigh)

Mike Russell miker417@gmail.com

I have Firefox as my default browser on my Android phone. But when I try to open certain things it tells me that Chrome is outdated and I need to use Firefox. I'm confused.