I-Firefox iOS Community Forum

I am currently using the latest version of Firefox for Apple iPhone.

When I tried to close all tabs, it does not close. I click on the trashcan and click to close all tabs, and it pauses for a very long period of time and still retains all old tabs. The only way to close tabs is to go through them manually delete them one by one. Obviously this is not acceptable.

I’ve been very happy with Firefox in the past, and I would hate to Have to change browser platforms, but this is getting to the point where I need to change browsers if this is not fixed soon.

please let me know if this is something I’m doing wrong on my end or if this is a known issue and you have a solution. 

Thank you!

I've setup the Opening Screen on the Firefox iOS app to be set as Last tab, but Firefox keep opening a new tab every time I open the app.

I enabled "Jump Back In" in assuming it would jump back to the previously opened tab after closing the app, but it doesn't work.

J'ai envoyé une requête auprès d'un service qui m'a redirigé sur ce lien pour faire ma demande d'aide pour mon problème avec l'application Firefox sur mon téléphone (Samsung Galaxy S24 pour référence)

Après avoir recherché une solution à mon problème sur internet afin d'avoir les onglets encore ouvert en navigation privée après avoir fermé l'application sur mon téléphone, j'ai trouvé cette page internet :

https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/fermer-automatiquement-onglets-prives-en-quittant-navigation-privee?mobile=1

Cependant, cette solution n'est pas utilisable vu qu'elle est incorrecte. Je n'ai pas les options qui sont données sur l'image et dans les étapes données.

Où dois-je aller ou que dois-je faire pour trouver une solution à mon problème ?

Hello everyone! A quick question: Since updating to 136.0, right-clicking a link and and selecting "open link in new tab" or "open link in new window" does nothing. I am still able to open the link in the active tab by left-clicking on it. Any thoughts?

The help on this is either dated or just flat wrong. The image does not show iPasOS 18.3’s multi-window support.

Would work with an update to an image for the look of the multiwindows support on recent versions of iPadOS **IF** you do not already have a second FireFox window open. If you do, splitting the screen and the clicking on the FireFox icon merely opens that second, existing, FireFox window

The only way that I can get a new window is to use an external keyboard to type Command N

Comments/suggestions?

Recently closed tabs and windows are greyed out. In firefox view i can see recently closed tab. But i am asking about start up option in general tab in settings. There is option of open previous windows and tab. So whenever i close my browser and open it doesn’t show previous windows or tabs , it opens home page. Checking option of open previous windows and tabs doesn’t work, that was my question. This setting used to work for me few years ago. Last few years I didn’t use computer. I think there is glitch in start up settings.

I have a problem that when I'm opening the "Control center" on IPhone or the "Notification center" and then going back to Firefox - somehow opens new tab and I'm momentally find myself there and not on the tab, where I was before. Also if I exit Firefox somewhere to the screen but not close browser and then going back - I'm also appearing on new tab but not where I was before. I haven't closed browser, so I find this behaviour strange.

Hi In the absence of network connectivity, submitting a search or entering a URL in the universal bar fails to detect the network issue. Moreover, the content of the universal bar is lost (forcing the user to type again, which can be very frustrating for a long URL)

How to reproduce: - open firefox iOS - switch your phone to airplane mode and deactivate wifi - open a new tab and try accessing any webpage (eg mozilla.org, or type something to be searched) - observe how the content of the bar is instantly lost and a blank page is displayed.

What should be expected: - the universal bar should still contain whatever was typed (or the URL of the search engine) - the body of page should display the usual "The internet connection appears to be offline" message.

PS: this apparently only happens in newly created tabs, not with existing ones.

I had many tabs open in firefox on my iphone, which were unique and not open in firefox on my laptop. Inhad kept them there for a while because theyvwere important. I happened to tap on 'pick up tab' from my laptop in order to work on something from my phone for the forst time. This looks like a new feature that I didnt notice before. It opened that tab but immediately closed all of those tabs I had kept opened. It also deleted and overwrote all of my iphone history, so that everything exactly matches my laptop. If I go in my iphone's firefox history it does not show those old tabs under recently closed tabs! I can't find those anywhere. Help! Had I known it would do this I would have made sure to save the tabs and history somehow! How can I get my iphone tabs and history back?? Thank you

I've done a bit of searching and I'm surprised nobody else seems to be discussing this issue.

It appears to be related to the fact that, if I haven't visited a tab in more than a few minutes, when I reopen that tab, Firefox reloads the page. I completely understand why this is done, and I still think it's a poor choice. Half the time it takes me away from the actual page or content I was looking at, and starts me over from the entry point (think infinite scroll type pages). There's a refresh button for a reason. Do less, Firefox.

But the problem I'm having is that this auto-refresh feature is broken. About 10% of the time, it just shows me the tab home page. It doesn't even reload the site. The address is not in the address bar. The refresh button is grayed out. Sometimes, if I wait long enough (30-45 real, actual seconds - feels like a very long time), the page will load. Sometimes. Most of the time I have to go into my history and re-open the tab that way. Sometimes it will go from the home page to a blank white screen, as if it's about to load the page, and then stalls there - again, nothing in the address bar, refresh button is grayed out. Depending on how far it got in this process, I may be able to swipe down to initiate a refresh, and if that works the page will usually load from there.

Is there a setting where I can disable this auto-refresh feature? Can I extend how long it keeps the cached page? Can I make it so that when I re-open the tab, I'm reliably back where I was? I thought that was the purpose of tabs?

Help?

I use Fire fox on my ipda to read books (web published manga and light novels) ever since the release of latest version (that has the "New screen") it looses the page I am up to and often revers to a random previous page. for the past 4 year plus I have had numerous (30+) tabs opened to web sites on the current page I am up to in given web sites. this worked almost flawlessly until you change the home screen. The Version I have installed A.T.M. is 113.1(30885) The "New screen" I am referring to has the titles Firebox Browser,Jump Back In, and Recently Saved. If this Screen shows up after moving away from Firefox for a random time (some time short some times long) instead of showing what the tab had on it. if it shows the new screen and I pull down to refresh the screen I may get the web site I had before but it will not be the latest page I was on. I have taken to book marking the latest page I am on since Firefox has become so unreliable. I am also only running 10 tabs because as I loose the sites that I have been reading for years I have been book marking them and closing. I am at the point where I will be moving away from firefox on the iOS devices as Safari, Chrome, and iCab Mobile are more reliable and do not loose my tabs current web page. attached is an example of a page I was reading yesterday and returned to it day, I book marked it. note the chapter numbers. please note the version number of iOS and Firefox have changed a number of times since I notices this fault/bug my device it set to autoupdate.

When choosing to open the Last Tab as your starting tab, it just opens the first tab of all the tabs you have open. Seems that setting it to Homepage does the same thing. I deleted Firefox and and reinstalled; still no change.

I always use and have set the opening screen to the “last tab” option, but since version 115.1 was released, when closing and reopening FF (or after it refreshes itself) it reopens on the very first tab.

If I close that tab, it opens on the new first tab, same thing if I rearrange them.

If it’s useful, I have the “inactive tabs” option disabled, and have like, 150~200 tabs open atm.

The new user interface for IOS is insanely hard to use. I have an IPhone 12 mini, and recently the interface changed from one that had a large search bar at the bottom of the screen with bigger buttons and easier access. Now, it’s just one tiny row with no search bar on screen, making me either get rid of the tab or open a whole new one to search. The buttons are also ways smaller. I haven’t seen any way to get rid of this new UI and I’m not sure if i’m the only one having the issue.

I would like to recover my tabs, I tried the going into setting and going to that other website but that did not work for me and I do not know what to do anymore, the tabs are not on my history anymore like they did not exist. And it's acting on my computer like it was never a synced device so I have absolutely nothing of anything I had on my phone it is all gone and can not find anything I did on my phone on my synced laptop.