Firefox na Android Community Forum

Hello, there are site that do not work well in Android Firefox browser. Examples : web.whatsapp.com - sometimes I cannot type the message. I can never use dictation from gboard. 9gag.com - sometimes the site does not show anything...it just loads. Clear cache, phone restart, clear cookies, clear site data does not do anything. trello.com - I cannot move the cards around. These are just 3 example I had problems today. It's very annoying and at the same time everything I listed works flawlessly in Brave, at all times.

Is this because of Firefox engine ? or because sites are optimized more for Chromium based browsers ?

While in chrome browser (android) when i type something in the address bar like "shah" it gives me suggestions "Shahrukh Khan" also brief intro "Indian actor and producer" as well as associated brief image or when i type "interst" it gives an suggestion "interstellar" 2014 movie as well as a brief image. But this feature is missing in Firefox android. When i type "shah" it just gives suggestion "Shahrukh Khan" as a plain text, i tried multiple search engines but this remains same. This feature is also present in browsers other than chrome, like lemur, kiwi browser, opera etc. How can i get the same chrome functionality in Firefox, or is there an extension that can do it. This is the sole reason that's preventing me to switch my ecosystem to Firefox completely.

I have HTTPS only mode enabled, but in the Alberta section previously it said it I got a site with only HTTP security I could choose to go on to it by tapping "Go Forward" of something close to it; I can't recall exactly because I never get that message. I have only ever seen the option of "Go back" or "Try Again". I thought perhaps this was the only option you for when having HTTPS only mode enabled, am I looking at old protocols for previous versions of Firefox, or perhaps my search engine, or is there another option? Thank you for your time

Hi Friends,

V 8.2 Android Many emails marked spam in the servers such as outlook com, and I cannot mark them as "Not Spam" through Thunderbird Mobile Android

Secondly : possible bug: I cannot move a message from time to time such as from deleted folder or spam folder to inbox with a message it is not possible to do that without server sync (whereas I believe they sync OK) in the outlook.com mail account

This is a feature regression that happened probably 2 years ago and has finally irritated me enough to make a ticket. If I click in the address bar and type a new address or search, I want to close the tab I am on and navigate to the address or search that I entered.

Doing that on desktop has the desired behavior of using the same tab and navigating away.

Doing this on android used to be like desktop.

Now it is awful and you end up with a million not closed tabs.

What is worse is clicking back from that first new search tab leaves the tab open and goes back to the tab you were just on.

So now I have two tabs one of which is orphaned the next time I search something and I will forget about it.

I tried to look for flags on android to flip it back, but you got rid of these I think the same release the behavior changed.

Sincerely someone who used to have like maybe 15 tabs and now has a few thousand all because of your crummy decision to not close tabs when navigating away.

Why is it that when I type in part of an url in firefox search, for example "surf" when I'm wanting to visit r/surf, firefox suggests threads I viewed a single time rather than r/surf that I view multiple times per day?

You can see in chrome it behaves more like you would expect.

Sometimes plain r/surfing will be there but most of the time not, it's just random threads I viewed a single time.

There doesn't seem to be any combination of search settings that makes it suggest more frequently viewed sites

Firefox on Android (and Windows) keeps signing me out of any and all accounts.

I never noticed it until last month (January '25)

Example:

-> I log in to an account (and I am talking about accounts that I have saved in Firefox password manager) -> I use the website -> I check back into the browser after 2-3 days and like magic, I am logged out. -> I go to Firefox on Windows and it keeps doing the same thing as the Android app (logging me out of website(s) even if I signed into a website(s) 2-3 days ago), It was not like this ever on Windows before I installed Firefox on Android.

Some prerequisites:

1. My enhanced tracking protection level in Firefox is standard.

2. I only use one extension: Ublock Origin on Android. (and A LOT more on Firefox Windows, some of which are ViolentMonkey, Return Youtube Dislike, Search by Image among others.)

3. I do not have private browsing always on for any tabs or pages I open.

4. I do not have 'delete browsing data on quit' switched on for any setting (history, cookies, etc).

5. Firefox is my default browser.

6. I have not cleared cache or storage from Firefox.

7. I do use Firefox on more than one device. One is this mobile and another is on Windows. Both share the same Firefox account. (and I AM having issues on my laptop as well in terms of having to sign in a difference of 2-3 days.)

8. Firefox on Android and Firefox on Windows are both up to date with latest versions installed.

9. No kind of battery and/or app restrictions are imposed on Firefox on Android.

10. The 'Remove permissions if unused' option is unchecked in the Mobile Settings for Firefox Android.

Firefox on my Laptop (Windows) was facing the same issues ever since I installed Firefox on Android, it would keep logging me out of websites within a gap of 2-3 days.*

• Update: As of 20th Feb, '25 It has been 4 days since I uninstalled Firefox on Android and so far I have not faced sign-outs/log-outs on any websites in Firefox on Windows and websites that I logged into a month ago are still logged in with my account credentials.

Part 2:

Firefox on Android keeps reverting back to Factory settings and keeps logging me out of the app as well as signing me out of my Mozilla account

It started off with me only getting signed out of my accounts on mobile but now Firefox itself keeps reverting back to it's default setup AND keeps signing me out of my Mozilla Firefox account and the Android app as a whole. (my session/profile keeps getting removed from Firefox Android)

Things like:

1. Theme changes back to 'Follow Device Theme'

2. Permissions change back to default (stuff like 'Allow screenshots in private tab' whilst still being enabled, like I intended it to be- does in fact not allow me to take screenshots in private tab anymore until I flick that permission from enabled to disabled to enabled again. So it looks enabled but it is still set to function on the default perm - which is disabled for new user- only problem is I am NOT a new user and this happening because Firefox on Android keeps signing me out of the app and my Mozilla account as well as deleting my preferences.)

3. Site Settings are all reset and back to their factory default

4. Firefox Suggest and similar search settings have default permissions

5. Whenever my Firefox reverts to it's default settings like this, it has trouble syncing to my laptop (both use the same Firefox account) and syncing up the tabs from the laptop on this, or even just the data like history and passwords too.

6. Anything I might have disabled/enabled in any type of setting(s) is reverted to default. Nothing stays persistent anymore.

This Firefox reverting to factory settings thing has happened thrice already this month (February) and I feel hopeless, frustrated and lost.

Update: I tried installing Firefox on Android again on 17th Feb, '25 and when I signed in with my Mozilla Firefox account- it treated that mobile/Android device as another one than the one my Mozilla Account recognised as my mobile account (which is named 'Firefox on my realme phone') and since it recognises it as a different account, the tabs that I had opened in my original Android Mozilla profile/account are now gone as seen in the attached second screenshot- 30 tabs.)

Update: As of 20th Feb (the day I am writing this), '25 It has been 4 days since I uninstalled Firefox on Android and so far I have not faced sign-outs/log-outs on any websites in Firefox on Windows and websites that I logged into a month ago are still logged in with my account credentials.

I apologise for my english for I am not a native speaker, I will co-operate with any volunteers who can help me solve this problem. Thank you so much in advance! <3

I just received a new phone. I realize that there isn't a way to automatically sync my old collections on this new device, but is there an efficient way to share a list of the links in a collection somehow? Maybe send them to an email or a file or something? My collections are important, and I don't want to open every single link and send them in text to myself in order to get my collections back -- there has to be a simpler way.