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Issues with video performance

For the past few months, videos on YouTube haven't been playing properly. They load just fine and there's no issues with the auto, but once the video starts playing it wi… (funda kabanzi)

For the past few months, videos on YouTube haven't been playing properly. They load just fine and there's no issues with the auto, but once the video starts playing it will sometimes be zoomed into the top left corner, making it impossible to properly see what's going on.

This happens with music videos too, both official and lyrical. It will be zoomed in close to the top left corner and just barely catches what's going on in the video. Sometimes, video do play like they're supposed to, but for the most part, they'll be zoomed in as soon as I hit play.

Asked by StarlightShadows 1 inyanga edlule

Answered by webum 3 ezinsukwini ezidlule

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Collections Sync

Firefox on Android has a "Collections" option,it is convenient displaying some websites on the startup page.But "Collections" seems not to be synced.It might be more usef… (funda kabanzi)

Firefox on Android has a "Collections" option,it is convenient displaying some websites on the startup page.But "Collections" seems not to be synced.It might be more useful if add the option to Sync List. Or it can be used as a specific section of the bookmark (but displayed on the startup page), similar to the bookmarks toolbar on PC. This makes it possible to sync frequently useful websites on both mobile and PC devices. Thank you for reading this.

Asked by ZhzChenc1 3 izinyanga ezidlule

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Firefox no longer works properly on my android phone

Since the latest update 114.2 I cannot get Firefox to work properly on my Samsung phone. I have Version 8 of android operating system on the phone. When I attempt to sear… (funda kabanzi)

Since the latest update 114.2 I cannot get Firefox to work properly on my Samsung phone. I have Version 8 of android operating system on the phone. When I attempt to search I just get a blank screen. In the web address box it just has an icon with a line through it and the web address. Refuses to display website. Doesn’t let me change from private browsing to regular browsing. Nothing I do seems to have any effect. Yes, I know I have an older phone but it was fine until this update.

I saw a similar problem and the user said thus 114.2 fixed the problem. Well, it broke mine. Please advise how to correct this problem. Thanks.

I am not on my phone. So the operating system info gathered is not from the system I use on my phone.

Asked by marykayc928 1 unyaka odlule

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Blank webpages and Sync not working since v114.1.1 update

Hi, Since update to Firefox for Android v114.1.1 I'm unable to: Open any webpage, either by typing the URL or selecting something from bookmarks/homepage. Even the t… (funda kabanzi)

Hi,

Since update to Firefox for Android v114.1.1 I'm unable to:

  1. Open any webpage, either by typing the URL or selecting something from bookmarks/homepage. Even the tabs which were previously loaded are shown as blank screen
  1. Sync tabs or Access Firefox account. Because I had lots of tabs opened I tried to sync tabs to my desktop Firefox browser using Firefox account, nothing happens when I click on sync

Refer to screenshot attached for build number and other development and release details.

The historic opened tabs are critical for me so I don't have the option to delete the app and install again. Though I tried to clear cache from Android settings but that didn't help either.

About Firefox -> Crashes tab is showing some crash details that is also attached in the post.

Asked by Usman Kamal 1 unyaka odlule

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Blank pages, pages fail to load, padlock icon with red slash

As with other recent posters on this support forum, I am also experiencing the bug on Firefox for Android 114.2.0 where all pages fail to load, only a blank screen is sho… (funda kabanzi)

As with other recent posters on this support forum, I am also experiencing the bug on Firefox for Android 114.2.0 where all pages fail to load, only a blank screen is shown, along with the padlock icon having a red slash.

This started 2 days ago when I updated to Firefox 114.2.0 and also updated to Android 13 patch level June 1, 2023.

I will attach screenshots of the blank page, the Firefox about page, the Play Store app info, and the Settings app info.

I have gone through this support forum, and it looks like all of these posts are for the same issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416843 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416646 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416800 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416794 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416820 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416783 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1415832 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416685 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1412113 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416247 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1405626 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416112 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416294 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416350 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416113 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416263 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416061 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416241 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416330 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1415775 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1415892 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1415735 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1415819

To me, from reading through these pages and other places online, it appears that the problem is triggered by an update to a recent version of Firefox, an update to a recent version of Android, or a combination of both. It also appears that updating the app will fix the issue (updating at all, not updating to a specific version), or reinstalling the app. Some have said they had luck with clearing the cache and restarting their phone. Some have also said that despite these fixes working temporarily, the issue reoccurred for them.

Many recent reviews in the Google Play Store page seem to be talking about this issue: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en_US&gl=US I will also attach screenshots of a few of the relevant reviews.

Here is also a forum post on Lemmy talking about this issue: https://lemmy.ml/post/1541824

I figure that I will just be able to wait for the next version of Firefox to be released, and it will fix itself, since I do not want to lose my browser data. I am just making this post because I was wondering if this is a known issue to the devs, or if they read the support forum or the Play Store reviews. I tried looking through the issue tracker at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fenix but I could not find any relevant entries.

Thanks for any response! Not trying to bug anyone or be negative, Firefox is amazing and I am super appreciative for all of the devs, and the community. I thought maybe collecting all the info in one place might be helpful for someone.

Asked by cory171185 1 unyaka odlule

Answered by Paul 1 unyaka odlule

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Crash caused by inactivity?

Hi, We use about ten Android tablets running Firefox in our shop for our employees to enter on a webpage daily some informations. Tablets are programmed to keep display … (funda kabanzi)

Hi,

We use about ten Android tablets running Firefox in our shop for our employees to enter on a webpage daily some informations. Tablets are programmed to keep display active 24h/7d, firefox is pinned so the app stay opened and users don't go to other app. The extension LeechBlock NG prevent users from accessing other webistes. Everything work well except on mondays morning.

Without fault first person to try to connect on the website will see the app crash to the desktop. Since the app is pinned user will have to wait for a supervisor to come in and unpin the crashed (and invisible) app, re-launch it and pin it. Then it will work all week without issue as long as the tablet is used at least once a day. We recently added a new tablet which is used less than others and that one does crash during the week but never twice in same day. Here's the crash report that we have (I checked multiples tablets and they all share the same crash code):

99526033-8b07-4d48-9ea2-bf4b81157f56 mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.PlacesApiException$UnexpectedPlacesException: reason=Invalid metadata observation: Observed view time is invalid (too long)


mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.PlacesApiException$UnexpectedPlacesException: reason=Invalid metadata observation: Observed view time is invalid (too long)

at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.read(places.kt:21)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.read(places.kt:1)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverter$DefaultImpls.liftFromRustBuffer(places.kt:13)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterRustBuffer$DefaultImpls.liftFromRustBuffer(places.kt:6)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.liftFromRustBuffer(places.kt:2)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.liftFromRustBuffer(places.kt:1)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterRustBuffer$DefaultImpls.lift(places.kt:7)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.lift(places.kt:3)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.FfiConverterTypePlacesApiError.lift(places.kt:2)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.PlacesApiException$ErrorHandler.lift(places.kt:2)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.PlacesApiException$ErrorHandler.lift(places.kt:1)
at mozilla.appservices.places.uniffi.PlacesConnection.noteHistoryMetadataObservation(places.kt:162)
at mozilla.appservices.places.PlacesWriterConnection.noteHistoryMetadataObservation(PlacesConnection.kt:19)
at mozilla.components.browser.storage.sync.PlacesHistoryStorage$noteHistoryMetadataObservation$2.invokeSuspend(PlacesHistoryStorage.kt:63)
at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9)
at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:107)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@57af652, java.util.concurrent.Executors$FinalizableDelegatedExecutorService@1d40d23]

Wondering if someone can help me decypher this to fix/prevent it. Is it the extension or browser itself that cause the crash if the page hasn't changed long enough? Thanks for suggestions (I will not consider "have you tried without the extension" as a valid suggestion)

Asked by SimonProulx2999 1 unyaka odlule

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Can not save images from Google Images (Android)

Can not save images from Google Images, by holding down on the image, and then tapping save image. The menu simply does not pop-up. Holding down on the image results in s… (funda kabanzi)

Can not save images from Google Images, by holding down on the image, and then tapping save image. The menu simply does not pop-up. Holding down on the image results in selection of the image description below. Sometimes you can not save it form the website either, but that is because of website configuration and you can not save it on other browsers, but on other browsers you can save from Google Images by holding down on an image, so it is only the issue of Firefox and not the Google Images website. This issue seems to be present for over 2 years based on online feedback, and it is still not fixed.

Asked by hemasalam.m.ali 1 unyaka odlule

Answered by Paul 1 unyaka odlule

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webpage becomes blank when use "back" button

Dear support team, I am experiencing a problem with one specific website, zerohedge.com. Whenever I use the back button to return from an article to the home page, the p… (funda kabanzi)

Dear support team,

I am experiencing a problem with one specific website, zerohedge.com. Whenever I use the back button to return from an article to the home page, the page appears completely blank, and I am forced to refresh it every time. This is happening on the Android version of Firefox, version 111.1.1 (Build #2015941331) with NoScript and PrivacyBadger add-ons installed.

I have not made any changes to the settings, and this problem has only started occurring about a week ago. I have never observed this behavior before.

Asked by badadim1 1 unyaka odlule

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smart TV problems

Hi I'm trying to use the internet via my panasonic viera smart TV. As my main pc will not come on. I have paid a small fortune to engineers who all blame the TV I agree w… (funda kabanzi)

Hi I'm trying to use the internet via my panasonic viera smart TV. As my main pc will not come on. I have paid a small fortune to engineers who all blame the TV I agree with them but not totally ever since I bought this from Currys I've had problems l no one wants to help or the pass the blame to some one else I'm now ready to start to shout or even worse. [Telephone number] lee The TV is a Panasonic viera 50cx700 serie

Asked by Lee “leeb.cubot69” Beck 1 unyaka odlule

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Phone crash log

Firefox has been crashing my phone for a while now. It finally was able to generate a crash log. Can someone take a look at the log and see what might be causing it? Than… (funda kabanzi)

Firefox has been crashing my phone for a while now. It finally was able to generate a crash log. Can someone take a look at the log and see what might be causing it? Thanks.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/32b12d52-cee0-49a4-bc70-7fea40230419#tab-rawdump


Old thread talking about the crash if anyone's interested.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1408791

Asked by bluechair 1 unyaka odlule

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Smart TV will not update can not go online at all

I have paid twice for online help was useless had engineers out no one can tell me what the problem is with my Panasonic viera 55in smart TV. It is the worst TV I've ever… (funda kabanzi)

I have paid twice for online help was useless had engineers out no one can tell me what the problem is with my Panasonic viera 55in smart TV. It is the worst TV I've ever had. I'm stuck with it now it will not update, can not login to the internet 50cx700_series

Asked by Lee “leeb.cubot69” Beck 1 unyaka odlule

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Bug Report

I installed the "Google" app and the "Firefox" app. When I used the "Google" app to search for images, I found that I couldn't open the searched websites. I tried to use … (funda kabanzi)

I installed the "Google" app and the "Firefox" app. When I used the "Google" app to search for images, I found that I couldn't open the searched websites. I tried to use the Samsung browser or Chrome browser and did not have this problem. I think this is a Firefox bug.I recorded the bug and uploaded it to Google Drive.The link address is https://drive.google.com/file/d/11k5DMzshHkYvvGGD4MpgqrlSRcQnkiGH/view?usp=drivesdk

Asked by MCV01 1 unyaka odlule

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YouTube videos dropping frames

YouTube videos on Firefox Android Stable, Beta, and Nighty, experience significant frame drops when viewing "Stats" both on AVC1 and VP9, and on all resolutions. I checke… (funda kabanzi)

YouTube videos on Firefox Android Stable, Beta, and Nighty, experience significant frame drops when viewing "Stats" both on AVC1 and VP9, and on all resolutions. I checked about:config in both Beta and Nightly and HW acceleration was enabled. This was true for a FRESH install as well. I tried this on other devices and the problem persists. Mull, which is a fork of Fennec, plays the same videos without any problems. Other browsers are also fine.

Tested on Samsung S20 One UI 5.1 (Android 13). Tested on Samsung A13 One UI 5.0 (Android 13). Tested Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact (Android 10). Tested on Sony Xperia XZ1 (Android 9).

Asked by TA 1 unyaka odlule

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Firefox Android slows down after extended browsing session

I noticed that on a regular basis, Firefox Android slows down dramatically after 1 or 2 hours of browsing. The only fix of the problem is to force stop the browser and la… (funda kabanzi)

I noticed that on a regular basis, Firefox Android slows down dramatically after 1 or 2 hours of browsing. The only fix of the problem is to force stop the browser and launch it again. This happens consistently as well after disabling extentions. Firefox is updated to the latest version, 110.

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Firefox vpn

duplicate of /questions/1407046 thread. I downloaded Firefox vpn for Android, but when I try to sign up and sign in as a guest I get an error message saying invalid API… (funda kabanzi)

duplicate of /questions/1407046 thread.

I downloaded Firefox vpn for Android, but when I try to sign up and sign in as a guest I get an error message saying invalid API key

Asked by jay621444 1 unyaka odlule

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