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Initial performance is good, but over time especially when tabs are opened and closed frequently responsiveness to user input (e.g. tab switching, opening/closing tabs, response to hyperlinks) becomes very slow. After force quitting and restarting, performance is good again for some time. I exclusively use private tabs.

This problem has been on my phone for years, through many iOS versions and several iPhones. I'm guessing its something in my settings but I have no idea what. Basically, when I use Firefox on my iPhone and switch away to another program, when I switch back to FIrefox, it loses its connection to the site I was using and goes to its home page. Yes, really! If things were normal, I should be able to switch away and switch back any time at all, but it pretty much always "crashes" when I do that. But I don't want to call it a crash, because Firefox stays open and happy, but just navigates away from the URL I'd been on. What might I check in order to pursue a "fix" (I doubt that something is broken!). Thanks.

Quick followup - When I'm using FIrefox and simply put my phone to sleep (push the button on the right side, sorry, I forget the name), when I wake the phone Firefox does that same thing and leaves the page I was on and opens the home page.

3/18/26 - SOLVED! Or, rather, fixed. I finally gave up and uninstall Firefox from my iPhone, then rebooted (just for good luck) and went to Apple's App store and installed Firefox again. Set it up to sync with my desktop (Windows) Firefox, and it seems to be running fine on my phone. Whatever was causing the problem before is no longer there. Wish I had more to offer re what that problem might've been, but simply uninstalling and installing again took care of it.

If I try to open Firefox, it goes to a page saying my fingerprint will be required, but nothing asks for my finerprint. And the red close button on upper left doesn't appear. I can only reduce the picture, but can't close it to start over.

I received a scam (verified by Apple) that my credit card was used for an Apple Store purchase. Now, that link is stuck on Firefox and I can't do anything without dialing their support number, which I am reticent to do. So, Firefox is unusable for me now. I tried to restart my iphone, to no avail.

Hi there poor performance lately. I’m having to constantly pause my vpn of jump onto safari where I don’t have to pause my vpn. The browsers are freezing. Which is really annoying when I’ve completed a big form. I have to redo it all over again. Are there any issues ? I’m in Halesowen England

Do not know how to explain but since ios26 up date ipad tab bar and screen ( notification at top ) and ipad bar collide and makes using it impossible as cannot access tabs see screen shot . Dont know how to explain. I have to quit go back in works for a few then does it again. Will only let me post the facebook example. Have call into apple just wondering if firefox is not working with new update. Srry for the lousy explanation

If my blutooth keyboard is connected to iPad, I can't type any address. The input box just disappear.

If I touch the address bar to search another site, it seems like showing as if I can edit the address, but just after showing the animation to change to the editing screen, it comes back as if I didn't touch the address bar.

I checked this symptom with severa iPad devices and several bluetooth keyboard. I turned off, reset, took time, many other things to solve this problem but it didn't work.

I just updated my iPhone 13 Pro, running iOS 18.5, to the latest version of Firefox mobile (140.3). The app keeps freezing in such a way that I am unable to press the “open tabs” button to view my tabs. Restarting the phone fixes this issue for a while, but it’s been happening again and again in the last couple of days. This issue is impeding my internet browsing so much that I am considering switching to a different browser for my phone.

Hi I’ve been a dedicated Firefox user since as long as I can remember across all my devices. Since buying an iPad Pro and setting up with Firefox, as I have on all my devices, on the iPad Firefox performance is really poor. Websites often freeze and downloading pdfs from websites or from SharePoint etc. often does not work. An empty file will be saved. When switching to another browser I don’t experience these problems and I have no other software problems on the iPad. Running Firefox 139.1 on iPadOS 18.5 on a 13” iPad Pro M4 (MVX33HC/A)

Can you please let me know what your proposed fixes are for this? Thank you and kind regards Ewald