I-Firefox iOS Isithangami Sokwesekwa

The latest and previous versions for over one year-two years have had problems with tabs.

1. My account is logged off after closing FF with the active tab opened and starting again. Whatever service I am logged in to is logged off. DEVS!!! JUST TRY IT!!! The services in other tabs are logged in but not in the active one.

2. opening a link in a new tab ("right click") throws me somewhere in the list of my tabs. It is not opened just next to the active tab. just somewhere ahead. eg I have 80 tabs. My active tab is 60th. the link opened in the new tab is 75th. Unlike in Chrome next to the active tab.

3. tabs sometimes "lose" their address. They are blank. They very rarely open properly after a few restarts of FF.

4. moving tabs is very difficult unlike in Chrome or Safari

I recently got Firefox again after having had to get it of it for a while for storage reasons. I remember there being a feature that when you clicked on any link, it would pop up a “switch to tab” option, which was very helpful as I like to open tabs but keep reading. However, now that’s only popping up when I do long-press on the link and pick open in new tab in the menu, and that takes a frustratingly long time. I remember there being a setting for it back then, but now I can’t find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

so yesterday i was using the Firefox app on ios and today when i reopen the app today all of my tabs were deleted, i had hundreds of important tabs on the regular browsing and a few on the private browsing that were deleted; but i never pressed the trash can at the bottom left of the screen, it is also important to know that the history is still there for the regular browsing but it would take time to reopen all of the tabs, not to mention that some date back for about 1-2 years ago and i cant recover the history or the tabs for the private browsing, or at least i dont know how to. I am guessing that there was some kind of crash or bug that happened when i closed the app. If there is any possibility to recover all of the tabs for regular and private browsing it would be awsome

I like to keep tabs open for awhile until I get around to reading them, sometimes I'll open firefox and they're just all closed and gone. I have the older tabs thing on, and tried updating the app but it already is up to date.

When I tap ‘open in a new tab’, if too many tabs are already open, it will load the page several tabs down (instead of being adjacent to its parent tab). This is a further issue, and when exiting the page, the tab menu starts where it should be. This can cause issues when comparing items in separate tabs, and is very frustrating. This can occur at any point after I only had 30 ~ tabs open.

When I minimize Firefox and then maximize it launches another window. Why does it add a new tab? I want it to stay on the last tab I was at, but instead I need to go back to the all tabs view and close out the new unwanted window.

I opened a large PDF on Firefox (among other tabs open) while checking insurance coverage. After scrolling through the PDF a bit and switching tabs, when I went back to the PDF tab, Firefox crashed. Now it opens to a white screen every time I try to open Firefox and crashes shortly afterward. I was hoping I could close tabs, or clear history, but cannot access anything. I’ve cleared all active apps and tried restarting the iPad a few times. I also tried updating the FF app. Is there any other way to get FF running again, or at leave, recover my bookmarks before I uninstall/reinstall?

Recently, I’ve noticed that after the app hasn’t been used for a bit or the app is closed, when I go back it will show my tabs but they won’t show the URL - it’s just blank displaying the new tab screen and won’t load anything. It’ll show the name of the tab in the tab switcher but that’s it. Nothing comes up. This has become quite frustrating. I’m on the March 28th version of the app and iOS 16.3. If I click the back button (which does appear) it just does a little glitch.

Hello- I run into issues with the app where I am unable to hit the back button within a tab and have it go to the previous page.

This doesn’t happen all the time, the most consistently I’ve been able to replicate it is when browsing something like search results, coming from a lengthy URL that I have spent a lot of time scrolling through, clicking on a page, exiting the app (especially if I force close it) and then reentering. The page that I had clicked on earlier still loads, but when I try and hit the back button to return to the “search page” it simply displays a white screen with nothing in the url space. It will not load no matter how long I wait or if I refresh. If I long press on the back button to see the history of the tab, the pages that won’t load are displayed as “internal://local/sessionrestore?url=https%3A%2F…” To my knowledge there is no way to see the rest of that address because it doesn’t appear with that format in the search bar or my history.

Another interesting aspect is not all the pages in a tabs history will do this, and the only pattern I’ve been able to find is that the longer the URL, the more likely it will to be unavailable. Sometimes only one page will have this or sometimes it will happen to almost the entire history of the tab. This also happens in private tabs.

My currently solution is to simply go into my history and find the link from there but that is not perfect and gets tedious if I have multiple tabs open and have to search back through my history for a certain link.

Both the app and my iOS are fully up to date. I haven’t had any issues with Sync and I’m not opening these tabs on any other devices. I have Strict tracking protection on, but for one website I turned it to the default and still got this issue. While this doesn’t happen every time I close/switch out of the app, it certainly happens 50% of the time, possibly more.

The images attached are what pops up when I long press the back button on 2 different times where this happened.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Over the last month or two, my open google tabs (where I had something searched) are coming up blank when I return to them. It only seems to be happening with tabs where I had a google search open.

When I load an heavy webpage such as this one and I then leave the app, when I come back to the Firefox app the tab is totally blank although remaining in the tab bar. The link in the navigation bar also disappeared — it’s almost like the tab is ghost.

Today I accidentally find out that all my tabs in my ios browser are gone by unknown reason. Yesterday I've delete my history data but I did it many times before and all the tabs was at their place(tumbler to erase all tabs is inactive all the time). When I get into History section Recently Closed tabs was inactive(grey). Then I moved to desktop browser and face that it sees bookmarks on my iphone(all of them).

How it's possible? And how to restore them?

Best regards

Artem

How can I switch from one open tab to another?

I work using links from publications and open tabs in relation to the link being researched. I used to be able to switch between tabs by clicking the open badge and selecting one of the other open tabs to switch to it. Now, anytime I try to switch to another of the open tabs the image of the first tab in position flashes on to the open tab I’m trying to get and flashes off then nothing happens because when I select DONE, I’m taken back to the last tab I wanted to switch out from.

So, again; how can I switch from one open tab to another?

Recently Firefox has failed to restore many of the tabs used in previous sessions.

I think since the same time, a white L on a blue background has appeared on loading the page, temporarily replacing the normal page icon.

Can anyone help me solve this problem, please?

Procedure 1. Open Firefox iOS 2. Open some pages 3. Force-close the app 4. Open Firefox again

Expected result - The tabs that previously opened is kept and possible to access

Actual result - The tabs exists, but displaying default new tab page, cannot visit the page - pageback/forward is not working - All tabs are affected

note - By pressing down pageback/forward, there is history which says "internal://local/sessionstore?url=..." is generated. - There are some people on my local app store (JP) complaining the same issue. - After erasing and reinstalling the app, this issue happened again.

The app is almost unusable because of this bug.