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I posted to the play store and was asked to post this here. I hope this is where they wanted me to post. The link provided was the support home page. I have added details, that I had no room to include in google play review.

Something has changed recently with the way firefox manages sites accessed by customized links in emails. previously the links would give me access to articles where i have an account. now the sites log me out (gmail when adding an account, mondaq when accessing an article) and tell me to register/login, even though i am registered and the link had an embedded password, or I was already logged in. this is not happening in ghostery. it happens even when site cookies accepted are all accepted.  It happens in Firefox for windows (11) as well as Firefox for Android. For the Mondaq website I can no longer read any articles that are in the emails that are sent to me.  Within 10 seconds of the article loading the page refreshes and asks me to sign in. This only started happening recently. Previously I could leave articles open in firefox tabs for months, and still access them.  Now I can't even read past the first few lines, and all the ones I had saved are lost.  As for gmail.  I have pinned tabs for my email & calendar.  When i "add account' it's supposed to open the additional account in a new tab, which it does.  But it also resets the pinned tab to the new account. I'm going around in circles trying to have two gmail accounts open at the same time.  In addition when i have a google sheets open in a tab, rather than staying open between sessions (all google sites are in my exceptions for cookie clearing) it requires me to log in again if I've not accessed the sheet again within a few hours.  That's even though I'm still logged into the gmail account that is linked to the google drive account that has the sheet.   I'm now on windows 11.  i don't know if these issues are related to that or to rececent changes/updates (lots) by firefox.

I currently use Firefox android on my Samsung S25 and I'm unable to play any videos on healthygamer.gg . It still works fine on my S21. On one drive links, I am able to see video but unable to hear audio (the video was not muted, i checked). Both of these issues do not exist on the brave browser I am currently using on my S25. I have already allowed autoplay for videos and allowed drm-controlled content.

My keyboard is often glitching out while I'm in the Firefox browser. This will happen when I'm trying to search on websites or in the search bar.

I've tried a few different keyboards and I've had this problem with Gboard(the one I want to use) and the built-in Samsung keyboard. It seems to work fine for the Microsoft's keyboard but I prefer not to use that one. I've recently updated both of theses apps but the issue persists. The screenshot is what I see when this happens; the area where the keyboard should be is solid black.

If I use the search bar that normally contains the URL, it works but I try to avoid this because using that bar seems to get stuck often on a blank screen(or take a while to load? Not sure what's happening there).

Is there a fix or workaround?

The Save to Collection feature needs work on Android. You can't order or edit the bookmarks.

One slight of hand and bookmarks disappear from the collection. No confirmation of delete is offered. The bookmark just disappears.

https://support.mozilla.org/th/kb/private-browsing-firefox-android#w_close-all-private-tabs

Until recently, in Firefox Nightly for Android, when visiting a web page in a Private Browsing tab the three-dot menu included an option to "Open in regular tab". In the past few versions, this option has been removed.

This option is especially handy for those of us who have the "Open links in a private tab" option enabled, which essentially makes Private Browsing the default. For example, if it is a page that normally requires a login, you can use "Open in regular tab" to easily open it in a regular session where you are automatically logged in. If your browser history is synced, "Open in regular tab" makes a page easily available on all devices (e. g. via Suggest) without having to bookmark it or actually send it to a different device.

This post on Bugzilla says "we will continue to keep this a Nightly-only feature" and the menu entry will be renamed to "Move to non-private tab". However, the menu entry does not appear on the redesigned menu.

1. Which exact version removed the option? Is there documentation about this in Bugzilla? 2. Is there a way to re-enable it, e. g. in about:config? 3. If not, are there any plans to bring it back?

Thanks.

How can I remove the reader button from the address bar? I have used about:config settings and changed the reader parse setting to "false", and the button still appears. There is no reason this button should not have an on and off switch

On the most recent update (7/14/2025), my basic Firefox settings were apparently wiped without any notice. To be clear, other things like my bookmarks were not lost, and my extensions were still installed at least. I previously had Firefox setup to not show me any content when I start it, just a blank page. I also had history saving disabled by default (ie privacy mode). After the update, you started showing me a page that wasn't blank and instead had suggestions on it. Also, the history was being saved from that point on. If I wasn't somewhat tech savvy, I might not have noticed the second change, as there was no warning from Firefox that my settings would be reverted with the update. I eventually figured out how to restore the behavior I had previously with this new version, but it took quite a bit more fiddling than previously to get history saving to be disabled by default when starting Firefox. I do appreciate the addition of fingerprint auth to switch to the app now as an option, but over all this seems like a predatory thing to do to users. I was asked to post here by a developer response to my review on Google Play in which I reported these issues (though much more briefly due to the character limit). I do understand that major updates/changes can require resetting configuration. However, those kinds of updates should display a warning/notice of such a change. I did look for such a notice on the "What's new" content for the update, which isn't something most people would likely even look at, but even there I did not see any indication that past settings would be lost/wiped.

The clickable area of URL bar for Firefox Android is way too small and narrow compared to Chromium based browsers. It's often irritating to accurately tap/click on the tiny narrow URL box area to access search mode. Especially on a regular basis. Below are the screenshots of layout bound margins comparing Firefox Android with Chrome Android URL bar margins.