Firefox for Android Community Forum

Hello,

If the phone is not used for a while, it takes a very long time to open a page in Firefox. The bar immediately goes to about 25% and hangs. When it finally starts, it works. Sometimes it hangs during use, but usually the problem occurs after a long period of inactivity.

What I do know:

• The problem does not occur with any other browser or application.
• The problem occurs on different smartphones from different manufacturers running different versions of Android.
• Deleting and reinstalling Firefox cleanly (without any add-ons) does not help.
• Same problem over Wi-Fi as over cellular.
• Turning Firefox off and on again usually does not help.

I installed Waterfox and for a while there was no problem at all. Then it appeared. I noticed that at least in Waterfox, the problem does not occur in private mode.

This is an unresolved issue that has been discussed before. https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1416241

Firefox for Android, Galaxy phone

Whenever I use "previous page" or back arrow to return to a Google search results web page it goes to the top of the page of search results instead of returning to where I left off.

For example, if I tap on the 57th link on a page of Google search results to check out the web page and then i tap the back arrow to return to the page of Google search results it should return to the 57th search result where I left off. In actuality it goes to the top of the search results page and I have to scroll down to the 57th search result to resume from where I left off.

When I tried to recreate this problem in the Opera browser for Android it always returned to where I left off.

That was a useful feature, and we were still able to long press either buttons to navigate history on the fly, or refresh (if not using pull-to-refresh from the top of the page). And now it's gone, with no way to long press the NavBar back button for history, and we have to do an extra press on the 3 dot menu? What the heck gives!

Trying to sync to Firefox on my desktop and it's not giving me the sync and save data option on my phone. How do I sync the too? I want my passwords to update between both and it doesn't and it's been an ongoing issue.

Thank you jscher2000, you have the right solution. Now I have a different problem in this context. I use the Mozilla Firefox browser deleting all cookies after finishing the browser, and now I want to enter Startpage as an exception. Unfortunately, I cannot find this option. I am sure you can help me here too. Brigitte

I have added my email account on thunderbird-android and want to use thunerbird-desktop as well. But the config file export from thunderbird-android is something like *.k9s, I believe it's a k9mail config file, and it can't be import by thunderbird-desktop. What should I do? thunderbird-android version: 8.2 thunderbird-desktop version: 128.5.2

Created a HomeScreen shortcut for FB.

I also have my FF Theme set to dark and that works great from the main FF window but seems to be ignored from the window launched from home screen (and shows light, this is the case also when the theme is set to follow the device theme)

if there is a wayvy9nsetvgtheme for HomeScreen shortcuts it's not obvious how to do so

screenshots attached - Theme setting - The HomeScreen shortcut in question - FB as viewed from tab on main window - FB as viewed from HomeScreen shortcut

During multiple attempts searching for map directions, the site tries to load, but fails. The transition area view remains blank, and the content inside the address field blinks.

I also have a screen recording, but I don't know how to include it here. Can i get advice on that?

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

The link from this Firefox in my phone to Google Play store download is not working. While using Firefox, my activities online at gaming sites notably Africabet.com have been manipulated via Firefox. My Google Account inFirefox have been manipulated through redirected links to fake pages of Google, MSN, Yahoo, Duckduckfo, PayPal, Payoneer etc OTP verification codes when I sign in to my Google account have been intercepted and the automatic redirect prompt intercepted. Firefox has been used to intercept OTP security codes from my Amazon KDP accounts and my Google Mail on Firefox has been manipulated either through delays on the app which make no sense when you use the website Firefox instead and then see the difference. I have lodged a complaint before and it looked as if the issue had been resolved only to resurface

I Thank you.

When accessing www.gsp.ro and scrolling up and down it feels very choppy like a frame rate drop down.

The issue doesn't seem to happen in another browser or accessing different websites with Mozilla.

I have updated to the latest Firefox version for the Android app, using Samsung Galaxy S20. When viewing YouTube in mobile view (desktop view works though) through the browser, the comment section seem to be invisible and not showing. I have tried fresh reinstalling, and toggled all the settings, but I can't seem to get it to work on Firefox. Other browsers like chrome works just fine. Is this a bug?

There used to be a forward arrow option in the three button menu. Now there is not and I cannot find out where it is or how to navigate forward.

This seems like a bug because navigating forward is a core function of browsing. Anyone know where it went or how to fix this?

How do I save my settings when I change them? I really do not like the dark theme but when I try to change it to the light theme it does not seem to recognize my choice when I open Firefox the next time. I also don't like that fact that Firefox does not open on my homepage like it used to. How can I revert to the Firefox I had before it was apparently updated?

I need to install the newest Firefox browser on my android phone and be able to get a video chat session to work . The browser test on the jpay website fails the test chat every time.