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Any time I use Firefox on my Samsung S20 FE Android phone, and bring another app to the foreground or even access another app from the browser (for example, to load an image onto a web page), the browser refreshes and the web page in the foreground resets. This happens even with Battery = Unrestricted set for Firefox. Is there any else I need to do?

I find it extremely annoying that on the Desktop all URLs I open are on the same tab unless I request otherwise but on Android all URLs I open from Home open in a new tab which can result in a huge number of tabs being open. When are the developers going to provide an option to open new URLs on the same Tab unless I request otherwise. On a device like a phone with limited memory this makes no sense, my wife often ends up with so many tabs open her phone crashes. I know there is a setting to close on exit but on Android that only works if you select exit which my wife often forgets so she ends up with 30 open tabs!

A facility to circumvent this is long overdue.

Stuart

Ive been using firefox on every device for decades. This has never happened. I had 90+ tabs open, I hadn't finished sorting and saving. I've been apartment hunting so many tabs were important links. Somehow, I wasn't even doing anything with tabs, all gone. I have my complete history and 10 most recent. All I have is my phone right now, now computer access. Please tell me there is something to be done. Samsung galaxy a15

On my desktop all my sites I visit open on the same tab unless I choose otherwise. I want to do this also on Android but there does not seem to be an option. How can this be achieved. Currently if I open 10 websites I get 10 tabs, which is ridiculous!

Stuart

I use Firefox Android.

Some websites enable a kind of "close guard" confirm modal that asks you if you really want to leave the website when you reload or, normally, when you close the tab [Screenshot of this attached, sorry it's in German]. This is usually to protect unsaved text that you've written on there or similar stuff.

On Firefox Android, when I reload a tab with this enabled, it does prevent the reload and show the modal. However, in opposition to Firefox Desktop, the modal is not shown when a tab with this enabled is closed via swiping gesture or pressing the X on the tab overview.

That can lead to frustrating loss of data bc of accidentally closing a tab, even though the website already has enabled a measure to prevent that!

It would be very useful to have the confirm modal be shown on Tab Closure on Firefox Android too.

I see that I can select multiple tabs in a collection I put together on my home screen, but where is the menu option to open all selected tabs?

Also, is there one to simply "open all collection tabs"?

I also noticed that I can edit the custom title name of a shortcut link on my home page, but I can't find out how to do the same for a collection list of links. I'm searching for user guides on the Collections feature for Android but not faring well at it. I fully admit this is my own fault and I'm sorry to be a burden. Normally I can troubleshoot well but I've been ill and the treatments are almost worse than the troubles. ;)

On Firefox nightly when viewing all open tabs, the thumbnail displayed does not show the current underlying web page. Instead it shows some prior web page thumbnail ... see attached screenshot

When you view the attached screenshot, the bottom left tab is playing a video with the title robot revolution, yet the thumbnail displayed on that tab is from a prior site that I viewed on that same tab

141.0a1 (Build #2016096519), null GV: 141.0a1-20250612214230 AS: 141.20250605050304 OS: Android 16

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Also when booking this ticket on the pick list there is no choice for tabs which is why I chose browse

A few days ago, I was able to go to my list of inactive tabs, click on one to open it, and then swipe through tabs in order to open a large amount of them at once. Today, this no longer works. Is this an update or a bug? There's no other good way to open a large amount of inactive tabs at once.

How do I dublicate a tab in the android app as I would in the flatpak/desktop application?

(I do know that I can create a new tab, copy the adress from the old tab, paste it into the adressbar of the new tab and hit enter, but this doesn't keep the "forward/backwards history" as on desktop, and it is really slow.)

Have they ever given us an option to make a tab always open in desktop mode? Yeah, I realize everybody doesn't need it and the average person might not want it but there are enough of us though who do that, it should still be an option, hence the word option.

So if they haven't given us the option, is it possible to make them aware that there should be an option to make tabs open always and desktop mode for those of us who choose to do so? Those of us who are too ignorant to know any better won't be using them in the first place or those who have smart enough to realize that there is the option but chooses not to use it well. Guess what? They'll choose not to use it, but please don't restrict my options because you're trying to cater to those who don't want them. In this case more is better.

This applies to the latest Firefox for Android version (this issue did not occur with the previous version). I manually closed my tabs and closed the Firefox app when I exit. However, when I open the app again, the previously closed tabs are there as if they were never closed. This is fixed if I delete browsing data but, obviously, this is not an ideal solution. I have tried to attach a short clip of this issue in action but it will not upload. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

It happen since yesterday. When I open any tabs I choose in the app, it doesn't load, and only shows a blank grey page. I can't even refresh these pages. In fact, on every tab I go to, the results will be the same. Is this a bug? If so, please solve it.