Firefox for Android Community Forum

I recently installed Firefox on my Android phone because I wanted better privacy and performance. Overall, the browser looks good, but I’ve run into a strange issue: some websites don’t load properly, especially those with interactive elements like forms or sliders. They either freeze or don’t respond when I tap them.

so i use ome tv on Firefox using user agent switcher EXTENSION. but when i connect to ome tv i cant flip the camera option in the down left it wont flip and it lags when connecting with other people please fix or help

Firefox app on Android is using an insane amount of mobile data that I cannot account for. In the attached image, Firefox used 15GB in a 3 hour span, and I barely used the app during. The only tabs I had open were 5 news articles. I've had this unexplainable high data usage for the past few months. Other internet browsers I've used in the past only used ~3GB per month. This inexplicable data usage makes me very concerned about what Firefox is doing in the background.

Firefox cann't use microphone in my android 5.1 device. But a camera work perfectly (after confirm allow in a pop-up with asking "if you want to share your device’s camera and microphone with that site.") FireFox detect microfone as "default input device" but it doesn"t work. In a special sites that can test a work of the microphone, drop down list of the detected device (in the Firefox) contains only one item "default input device" and microphone doesn't work. In other browsers (Chrome), вesides this "default input device" that drop down also contains other items and microphone work perfectly I need to use microphone in Firefox for web version of a messenger that doesn't support in ohter browsers and apk on this android device

I want to save my settings in DuckDuckGo's Search Engine, which I think means saving the cookie and site data for it, when I quit the Firefox Android app.

Thank you in advance

i dont know if anyone else is having this problem but when using firefox on android the back button gets greyed out and i cant go back it happens randomly and it gets annoying. I hope they find the cause of it and fix it.

Hello,

I'd like to use the History more fully. As it is now, it's impossible to view the full URL for most sites I visit or the time it was visited. FF's Desktop version has a wonderful History. I'd like to see something similar for my phone. Is that possible?

Thanks.

I have an Android S21, and S25. I want to backup tabs, browser history, cache, and cookies to the new S25. I cannot find any way to do that aside from Firefox sync which is NOT what I want.

Does anyone have a good solution? I need to send the S21 back to my cell provider soon

The instructions are to go to Settings in Firefox on the phone and click on Sync and Save Data to scan a QR code on the desktop, but that option is not shown on my phone.

Multiple times a day when switching tabs the entire screen will turn gray and become entirely unresponsive, requiring me to close and restart the app. This has been happening for weeks. It does this regardless of the number of tabs I have open, and continues to do this even after clearing the cache. There is also no report for it in about:crashes.

When the app is going to turn fully grey when opening a new tab when I scroll down and the address bar moves away there is a gray box where it used to be. Also, when opening a new tab the homepage won't appear; there is no "jump back in" or "recently visited" section, just a fully gray background.

I can't reproduce it, but sometimes the URL bar becomes unresponsive. You click on it and nothing appens. I've tried to delete cache and history, but nothing changes.

The latest update has moved the adress bar to the top of the screen instead of the bottom of the screen. And there is a bar for open tabs now, which can't be removed. Both changes have made it extremely exhausting to use the app on my tablet and the option to put the adress bar on the bottom is gone. Please help.

I’m developing a web application using Next.js that requires image capture in landscape mode. While the camera feed works perfectly in portrait mode, an issue occurs when switching to landscape mode on Android devices—specifically in Firefox. The camera does not auto-rotate and continues to display in portrait orientation, resulting in abnormal behavior. I’ve attached a screenshot for reference. In the image, the bottle is actually standing straight on the table.

This issue does not occur on other browsers and appears to be Android-specific. The commonly suggested workaround involves rotating the camera feed using CSS and then rotating the captured image accordingly. However, this approach negatively impacts image quality and resolution, which is critical for our use case.

Any insights or support in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

can the icon of the search bar in bookmarks be set at the top again(if so how) because it's really annoying that I have to click on bookmarks than click at the bottom of my phone screen than to click on search icon after clicking search bar icon to have to click at the top of the screen to than be able to search for the bookmark I'm looking for

I host services on my local network like: miniflux.thepromised.lan and usually accessed them by going to the short hostname directly like: http://miniflux and it just worked great until a few Firefox releases ago. I don't know when it stopped working but I can't get firefox to use my local DNS servers on my own wifi to resolve these local addresses.

My current workaround is to connect to my local vpn and force all traffic that way. No other app on my android device has this issue. Chrome works exactly as expected. I can also open a live dashboard to my pihole instance and watch in real time for dns queries that come over the wire. I can't get firefox to use these local servers at all.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!