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Stop malevolent and greedy giant corporations from designing intentionally incompatible websites and software that funnel consumers and other web users away from Mozilla by interfering with our use of Firefox on a daily and increasing basis. If you don't, Mozilla might well be doomed to extinction by attrition of your user base.

I am struggling to try to like Firefox Mobile. I have Firefox Mobile version 114.2.0 on my Samsung S23 Ultra phone with Android 13, and 114.1.1 on my S7+ tablet. I do not like having to click the little button next to the address bar to open a screen showing blocks or tiles for the tabs have open. I have used Firefox on my PC since it was a new browser in beta. But I have never used it as my primary phone and tablet simply because of the way it forces use of those blocks or tiles on a separate screen instead of showing always visible tabs across the top of the browser. I can not find anything in Settings to force it to display tabs instead of those blocks/tiles. What do I need to do to force it to show tabs and have them always visible?

I currently am using Dolphin as my primary mobile browser, but I can not sync my PC Firefox bookmarks with Dolphin. I just got the new phone and want to make the switch so that I can sync bookmarks, but I will not switch until I can see the tabs across the top.

Thank you! DaveM

I use Firefox Android (newest version) on my OnePlus 8 Pro (Android updated to the newest version).

Usually when I browse the net, I tap the URL bar whenever I wanna head to another website on another domain (for example from google.com to youtube.com). I don't like to close the tab and open a new one as that's slower. I could tap the URL bar and immediately typ the new URL on my touch keyboard as the current URL would be already selected so typing the first characters of the domain name (for example 'you' for youtube.com) would replace the whole URL and autofill would then suggest the full URL so I could press Enter on my keyboard afterwards.

Some behaviour changed some versions ago. Now I can do that most of the time but *sometimes* tapping the URL bar does not select the whole URL. Instead, autofill will suggest a sub URL of the page I'm currently on and typing on my keyboard will only replace the additional part of the URL autofill suggests. If I wanna leave the website and go to a completely new one, I will have to manually delete the whole URL and start typing afterwards.

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Look at the two images I've uploaded: Image "A" directly shows how it looks after I've tapped on the URL bar: I'm on URL "https://ytforum.de/f" which is a German board about youtube. Autofill suggests I could browse to "https://ytforum.de/f/unread-thread-list", which is their URL to display all unread topics of the board. As you can see, there's two different colors for the highlight of the selection. The left part which is the URL I'm currently on is highlighted with a grey color (red 1) while the new part suggested from autofill ("unread-thread-list", blue 2) is highlighted with a purle-ish color.

When I type "youtube" on my keyboard, I would now expect the whole URL to be replaced with youtube and autofill to suggest youtube.com, which is how it worked some versions ago. However, the first letter ("y") will cause the purple selection (blue 2) to be deleted while the letters afterwards ("outube") will be added to the already existing URL I'm currently on (red 1).

The result can be seen in image "B": the URL after typing "youtube" is now "https://ytforum.de/f/outube" which is not what I would ever expect and also it's not the site I want to go to. Please pay attentio to the "y" of "youtube" not being in the URL as this key acted like a delete press, only deleting the suggestion.

How can I make the URL bar to consistently ALWAYS select the whole URL on firefox android?

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I also want to point out that this bug apparently only occures when you're on a sub path of a URL. For example this behaviour does NOT occur when I am only on "https://ytforum.de". It only occurs when I am on "https://ytforum.de/f" and it also only occurs on other sites when I'mn NOT on the top level of the domain. I also don't wish to turn off autofill completely. It's a very useful tool I use all the time to navigate to pages faster, I don't wanna miss it.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Hey, I have had a huge problem since yesterday with Firefox on my phone. Firstly the sync stopped working and I couldn't search for anything. I uninstalled and installed Firefox on Android again, but now it keeps duplicating that my one phone is 2 synced devices. Of course on top of that I lost my open tabs from my phone. I need help...

I'm trying to login to my Amazon account on the mobile android version of firefox. I keep getting a redirect/ web page doesn't exist error after I enter email and press continue (attached pic). Link: https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin?dplnkId=f28d1214-705c-485a-acdc-9cadf13697ee

I think it some setting I need to change in firefox I just don't know which one.

Ive cleared cookie and cache. I've tried both cell data and wifi and I get same webpage error. I can login with no issue on Chrome and desktop firefox. I'm using correct login info. I've disabled extensions.

Hi, I've tried to scan a QR-Code with the Firefox Scanner but I've only received a message with "invalid". It is a QR-Code for an app (Briar F-Droid Repo) I was in the opinion that Firefox can also handle app links, but apparently it can only handle http and https. Is that correct? If so, I would find it good to explicitly mention it in the Firefox documentation. It took me a while to find out that it appears to only support websites. I know that it says websites on that page, but I had the impression that it naturally supports app's as well.

BTW. I would welcome it if it would support app's as well, even though I've also found a good QR-code scanner as a separate open source app "Barcode Scanner"

Cheers, Hermann

Gmail app version 2023.05.28.540443362.Release crashes when I set Firefox app version 114.2.0 as default browser is my Unihertz_Jelly2_20211229 phone running Android 11 baseband MOLY.LR12A.R3.MP.V162,MOLY.LR12A.R3.MP.V162 kernel 4.14.186-gd2ee115ca-dirty

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On android playstore, I am getting a message that a firefox update is available. But there is no description about the update. How to find out authenticity of an android app firefox update and its version and reason for the release.

Since I installed the last update, no pages load (see attached screenshots). The URLs are displayed correctly, but pages are neither trying to actually load nor displaying anything, they are just blank. The padlock symbol is crossed in every tab, but I'm not sure whether this is actually a difference to when it was still working. Clicking on its symbol does nothing.

Checking every function in the app: - No pages load, neither in normal nor private mode, neither do bookmarks, links nor formerly open tabs. - The settings are all accessible, changes made there actually apply (like enabling screenshots in private mode) - The Add-ons menu loads indefinitely, and trying to log into firefox account does nothing (with QR code) or redirects to an obviously blank page.

I did: - Force the app to stop. - Restart the phone. - Empty the app's cache.

I haven't tried reinstalling the app, but all my bookmarks would be lost (since logging into my account also doesn't work). Assuming my problems are due to a bug, this wouldn't work anyways.

Specifications Firefox Version: 114.1.1 Phone: HUAWEI VTR-L09 (displayed as compatible and functional in the Play Store) Current Version of Android (EMUI): 9.1.0.297

Thank you for your time!