Firefox for Android Community Forum

Hi,

I would like to be able to switch from tab to tab in 'Firefox Android'. The tabs are not listed next to the two dots ':' Can someone help me with this? This would be much appreciated, as I enjoy 'Mozilla Firefox' very much. Thank you.

Just as the title goes. I've been using Mozilla Firefox on desktop since 2005. The best hands down browser ever. I started using Firefox on android back in 2019.

I still love the android version, but my only problem with it is tabs. They stay open constantly. In the desktop application you close out and all the tabs close. In the android version I swipe up and there still there next time I load in. I don't like this at all. Unless I quit out of Firefox from the submenu, the tabs will stay open indefinitely.

I was hoping Mozilla could add an option to auto close tabs in 6 hours or something like that. Or close out tabs when I swipe up in android.

I have moved about 20 friends and family to Firefox and it's always going to be Firefox from now on. You guys rock!

In the past you could send links by long-pressing them and using the context menu to send them to other devices(not the android "share" option)

Why was this removed and more importantly: how do I get it back?

Why is it that when I browse Facebook and scroll down, it automatically throws me back up? In this situation, I have to repeat the scrolling twice, this happens every time I scroll down the page (this only happens with Firefox because other browsers do not have this problem)

Firefox for Andoird crashes every time tab listing opened. If I do "about:crashes" i see the attached list of crashes ...

"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException..."

Version is 130.0 (Build 2016041319)

I tried clearing cache but it didn't help.

The latest update of Firefox for Android (130.0 (Build #2016041319)) removed the ability to swipe away the "Tab Closed Undo" bar that shows up when closing a tab.

If a user closes the last tab, a purple-ish bar appears at the bottom of the screen that reads "Tab Closed" on the left and "Undo" in a different font on the right. In previous versions of Firefox for Android a user could swipe away this bar to make it go away. In the current version that is no longer possible and I would really appreciate having that back.

(Honestly I would actually really appreciate never seeing the bar since I can access closed tabs via the History and I really dislike the bar.)

I enjoy using Firefox for its clarity, security, and overall performance. However, on my Android tablet, switching between tabs can be difficult. I would love to have a tab bar at the top, similar to the desktop version, for easier access to specific tabs. The current swipe gesture to change tabs is useful but doesn't allow me to see all open tabs at a glance. Additionally, I’d appreciate an extension for auto-refreshing tabs and a setting for desktop view, so that when I enable it, all tabs—including future ones—open in desktop mode. However, it should still be possible to switch individual tabs back to mobile view if needed.

Thanks Subhankar

Since I am on my new Phone (Xiaomi Poco F6, Hyper OS 1.0.4.0, Android 14.UKQ1.240116.001), I have this weird thing with Firefox that when I minimize it and then come back a few seconds later, it will automatically reload the tab I was on. Which is extremely annoying because, for example, I was on the Paypal page and was getting my login code from messages, then when I got back on the Paypal page it reloaded and I could not insert the code, but had to click on 'send code' again (and again and again). I saw this issue appear multiple times apparently already on reddit and co. But nowhere I could find an answer to it. Someone? I looked in the battery saver settings and in firefox settings etc, but I can't find anything that makes tabs reload automatically and it makes no sense that anything would clear the cache every time I minimize firefox, no?

Fix this old bug please https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1367481 I record video but can attach only useless image

I now have the problem that I am on a large payment page and switch back and forth between FF and another app (to copy payment-relevant data). Unfortunately, FF does a page refresh every time it is brought back to the foreground from the background. And all the data already entered is lost! This is a fairly well-known problem with FF on Android! Chromium manages this better and leaves the memory management to Android. Why can't FF do that? Why can't I switch off this feature? I can't edit any relevant websites with the FF. I have to use Chrome for that! Hooray!

The Firefox browser app for android for the last year or so refreshes tabs if I leave them for even a moment. If I go to another tab and then back, they both refresh even if it's just been a minute. If I leave Firefox (with the window open) to check another app and then go back, the tab I had open refreshes.

I can't fill out a lot of forms unless I don't leave the tab the entire time, I can't log into a lot of sites with two-factor authentication because leaving Firefox to check my emails or texts for the codes makes the log-in page refresh, and I can't even upload pictures to other sites because the tab refreshes when I open my gallery or camera.

It's not specific to any site, it is an issue with the tabs and I've been waiting for a fix to it for over a year. I know it's not just me, I've tried clearing my cache and looking in the settings for a solution and I've seen a lot of other people talk about it too. This wasn't an issue when I originally installed the app, it only became a problem after an update.

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well 🌻 I'm using the latest version of Firefox as of today on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro, and I have a problem when switching between apps and then switching back to Firefox the pages reload even if I don't have many apps running in the background (so I don't think it's a ram issue and I don't experience it with other browsers) and this gets so annyoing when I'm viewing pages with many images such as manga because the images need to reload each time entirely

Thanks in advance and I hope you have a wonderful day 🌸

I want to have tab icon for bookmark on main screen on android tab, this isvery much important , for Windows there have option for bookmark toolbar, in the same way need fix shortcut for website , as shortcut is available but when I sync with laptop unable to add or edit shortcut, on that place history coming.

One more problem, need to have mouse scrolling works for refreshing the page or please add one add on for page reload

Thanks

Hello,

My phone seems to be having a problem where links I click on in my phone, whether from texts or emails or even typing into the search bar widget for firefox for my phone, is opening the tabs into the very top of my tab list. I have my settings set to the tabs being in a list, and new tabs open at the bottom, with older tabs farther up. But now new tabs from links are opening at the top of the list, and I have to copy the link and paste it into a new tab I set up manually and go all the way to the top of my tab list to close out the old tabs.

I also noticed when dealing with this problem that several old tabs I had open are no longer there. They seem to have just dissapeared. I have the setting to set tabs into an inactive section turned off, and I verified this is the case. I don't know where the old tabs went.

I am also having a problem where my bookmarks don't seem to be showing up. When I search for something in the URL bar, it searches my bookmarks, and when I edit a bookmark I have just added, I see all the folders. But when I just go to look through my bookmarks manually, I can't see them anywhere, and none of the folders I have made.

Are all of these things related?

My phone is an Android Motorola Edge 2022. It is fully updated, and the apps are fully updated regularly.

I also cleared the cache recently on all of my apps using ccleaner. This has not solved the problems.

Please help!

Thanks.

I am logged into my FF account of a laptop, tablet, phone, and desktop. All of them sync settings and open tabs without any trouble except for my phone (Android, Pixel 7a).

I can only get the phone to sync tabs by logging out and logging back in.

This has been an issue for months, but previously it would work if I restarted FF (or sometimes when I restarted my phone). It now only works by logging out and then back in.

What's odd is that it appears to still sync my search history. I could be mistaken, but sometimes when I visit a new tab it appears that the same url will autocomplete when I am on my laptop. But, the tab being open on my phone does not appear in the "Show tabs from other devices" or "View recent browsing across windows and devices" areas.

When I am in google and click in a link, firefox open a duplicate tab of the page I was and then I can access the page link I clicked. If I return to the original tab, this open again a new tab, a third tab. I cleared the cache, cleared the cookies, uninstall firefox and reinstall again but nothing resolved.

Sorry this is not a question but I can't find a email for Mozilla mobile for android we need a way to make it harder to accidently close a tab and also an option is setting to bringing back said closed tab with a longer time not 3seconds so who ever gets this please send it to a Mozilla worker.

Why is there not an option to turn this off. It is way too easy to close tab when scrolling up or down to find a tab. This is a dumb feature that needs to be toggled off.

Hi, today I suddenly noticed that all except my most recent tabs were gone. In "recently closed tabs" I only see tabs that I did actually close, not the 100+ that I didn't. There is a small chance this happened yesterday when I turned off my phone (I only noticed just now), but I haven't updated/ changed/ done anything out of the ordinary lately. I hoped I would find them through sync, but that wasn't working so stupidly enough I synced to fix that, which means sync now only says 0 tabs. Using Android 13 + Firefox 123.0(.1? There's a lot of different numbers on that page) Help?