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Hi, looking to ask if anyone has experience with restoring Firefox open tabs after closing them accidentally on Android.

Environment: Android 14 Firefox account sync enabled

Things tried: 1. Firefox Sync (The open tab information was promptly cleared away by the sync) 2. Open tab information from a separate desktop Firefox browser with Sync enabled prior (same issue as #1) 3. ADB file access (no permissions) 4. ADB downgrade install to pull old files (failed due to Android 14) 5. Accessing "files:///data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/..." (cannot download files and looking at the timestamps, the SQLite files have probably been overwritten) 6. Firefox debugging (Nothing useful) 7. Searching for a way to get Firefox Sync historical data (doesn't seem available) 8. Mailing customer support (No response)

Things I didn't do prior to this incident (answering the common responses found online): 1. Bookmark my tabs 2. Firefox Collections

Hello, I am Firefox Android user and i am having issue with Firefox while browsing substack.com website, When i open that website from a chromium based browser it works well but in Firefox it is slow and in my old mobile(android 9) which is even slower and i never wanted to open it. Twitter(X) is also heavier to open. I stopped using it from Firefox and using a chromium browser for these logins.

Firefox has all the features i wanted and i am satisfied that it is better than any other browser but lacks in performance. It is not smooth as Chromium browser.

Please look into it and it would be great if it just be more smooth like Chromium based browsers.

Thank you

When I connect my Bluetooth earbuds to watch a video on Firefox browser it works fine. But when I disconnect my Bluetooth ear buds the video stops playing and cannot be played through the phone anymore.

I refresh the page, choose another video, close the tab, open a new tab and now the video does not even play at all.

I followed the steps at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync-bookmarks-tabs-history-and-passwords-android

When scanning the QR code, my phone is stuck on this: https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-10-12-17-54-22-6b261a.png While my desktop shows this: https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-10-12-17-55-00-1c9ca2.png

When signing in with email on my phone, I get an "Unexpected error": https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-10-12-17-56-18-5c7b93.png

I've tried everything. I've cleared the app's storage and also re-installing the app. I've removed the old device login from "Connected Services" in https://accounts.firefox.com/settings.

I am able to save tabs to collections. However, there is no collections section on my homescreen, despite support articles and questions indicating it should just be there. When I turn shortcuts and stories on, they still do not appear. How do I make collections show up?

The tabs don't regularly sync between the desktop and Android browsers. I can manually hit the "Sync now" button on either end, and the latest tabs open don't change. Specifically I can't sync tabs opened on the Android browser to the Windows desktop browser. Clicking the button on the desktop browser does something, it switches to "Synching" with a loading throbber, but the tabs don't appear below in the list. Doing it on the android browser does nothing, it still reads "Last Synced 12 Hours Ago" on my android browser, and this is generally the number it says, more or less, whenever I attempt this.

I've tried updating the browser on both devices, and force stopping it on the android device and restarting it based on community recommendations, then reattempting to sync, and neither helped.

Other options suggested copying sessionstore.jsonlz4 from the profile folder on one device to the profile folder on the other device to transfer the open tabs (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1404630), but the guidance to do that doesn't work on Android, as it lacks the menus referred to in those guides. I don't know how to access the session data on Android, nor could I find a guide for it.

I've previously asked this question but it has been archived without any action.

I have the current Android Firefox installed, my homepage setting has 'recently visited' UNCHECKED, but the homepage is adding all my recently, or possibly 'frequently visited' visited, pages! Swipe sideways to show even more of them. The only thing that should be on my homepage are shortcuts - things that I wanted to pin - since the specifically unticked 'recently visited'.

This is a privacy issue as well as just a bug. Please fix this urgently.

I've also put this on my review on Play store as I consider it something that needs attention...

Posted this in Google Play Store reviews and was told to post here:

Frustrated with latest update to the download UI. When you save an image for example, the Download Progress and Download Complete pop-up can be swiped away to hide the pop-up before it naturally fades, but the area of the screen it occupied remains uninteractable for a period of time anyway. If you try to tap anything in that area, or swipe to scroll a page by starting the swipe in that area, nothing will happen. It's as if the pop-up is still there, just not visually. Hoping this gets fixed.

Additionally, it seems awkwardly difficult to swipe away the pop-up as well, requiring almost an entire screen width of swipe to make it properly disappear.