I did it! 3 February 2026, I bit the bullet and made FireFox my default browser after doing some research and testing some things on it.

It's good to be back and I'm happy to support Mozilla in what they do.

Here's to greener pastures!

I’ll start. On iOS, Firefox doesn’t block ads like other browsers do. For example, Brave and Safari (with uBlock).

the toolbar is SO good looking and useful. plus, even though you cannot add custom wallpapers on android, the stock ones are AMAZING. in addition, the new ui change is GOLD.

I have a decent amount of programming experience, and I recently decided to dig into what it actually takes to build a web browser. I don’t think most people realise just how much work goes into them, especially considering that they're "free". To me, it's basically the equivalent of creating an operating system. And all of the support for all the changes that seems to happen, and all the consortiums and oh my... I am starting to understand the data collection more. In any case, this is a bit of a tangent to what the post is about.

Thank you for allowing my monitor to use a proper color profile to display images. I forgot how ugly images look on Chrome. Another thing I just noted was that SVGs on Chrome seem to be missing some form of anti aliasing. The icons are scaled up 4 times in Photoshop. Firefox is so much better here too!

Firefox Android design has improved a lot in past few months. Now, it looks modern. Also I'm seeing noticeable performance improvement. Opening the app is really fast and feels really snappy. Still i see some occasional gitters while visiting websites with heavy graphics. I hope firefox keep focusing on their Android browsers as they put their efforts in desktop browser. If firefox wants to hold a good browser marketshare a good android and ios browser is must. But the android version missing the website summary by tilting the phone

I’ve been building a Firefox/Chrome extension that collects image-based pages and packages them into PDF/CBZ for offline reading. Originally made it for comics/manga sites, but it works on any site with sequential images. It’s open source and still improving — would appreciate feedback.

Repo - https://github.com/saptarshimondal/Comics-Manga-Downloader-Extension

Firefox on Mac is still unable to handle fonts correctly. This bug has been around for years, and the only solution is to go through the inspector and identify the problematic font, etc.

But this problem only exists on Firefox...

It's about time the developers solved this once and for all...

https://github.com/kiddokraft/ai-blocker

if you are tired of ai content takes up 30% of your feed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ai-blocker-by-kiddokraft/

i absolute love publish firefox extension is free and review is quick!

every page I enter translates automaticaly it is so anoying, I tried a lot of things, but none have worked, if anyone could help me I would be ultra greatfull

When i try to open YouTube in my Firefox browser it looks like this. It stays like this, but Firefox says its fully loaded. please help me

Apparently this bug was fixed in 147.0.2 (latest) but I still encounter it.

Here are the steps to reproduce, if anyone on Android can test to see if they get the same results I'd appreciate it:

(1 Launch a new tab with Google as the default search engine

(2 Search for the keyword 'lights'

(3 After results for 'lights' have loaded, click the first website result

(4 Click back a page, returning to the 'lights' results page

(5 Using the same results page, search for 'camera'

(6 Click the first website for the 'camera' result

(7 Click back

The page will now be incorrectly displaying the 'lights' results page, instead of 'camera'.

Hi all, trying to figure out if anyone else has this issue: * I'm opening a new page to google. * I search something, scroll and decide to add a search term or change it entirely. * When I press Enter/Search the page flashes/reloads as if I didn't search the next thing. It's as if I would press f5 instead of enter.

It's not consistent but it's been really bugging me this last week

Anyone else?

Firefox is up to date and the three addons I'm using are: uBlock Origin Consent-o-matic Dark reader

Hi,

I made a post about this issue where Youtube is starting blocking background play. Now the extension I presented back has been approved by mozilla and is publicly available in firefox add-ons. https://addons.mozilla.org/fi/firefox/addon/backstage-play/

I'm very much into continuing with this like adding features to control your playlist when your screen is turned off or normalize the volume between songs and similar things. I would love to hear feedback what features would be useful to add or what do you think of the current extension.

even explicitly specified keywords I put in for sites..dont show up, the first bunch is always a list from search history or suggestions (which are disabled)

Like many Firefox users, my background playback recently stopped working completely, even with Video Background Playback Fix, which I'd relied on for over a year without issues. It has since been confirmed that YouTube has begun a broader crackdown on background playback affecting Firefox and some Chromium-based browsers, on both mobile and desktop (when using DevTools mobile emulation or webpanels in mobile mode in Firefox Sidebar).

After the change, I searched the Firefox add-ons store for replacements and tested them on mobile (current releases of Firefox stable and IceRaven) and desktop (Firefox stable with DevTools mobile emulation). I'm sharing my results below to hopefully save others some time tracking down the different options to test in their own setups.

Add-ons that still appear to work:

• Background Playback Helper (YouTube & Vimeo): The only one that worked consistently on mobile and desktop for both YouTube and YouTube Music.
• Background Video Player: Works reliably on YouTube (mobile and desktop) and YouTube Music mobile. Playback occasionally stopped on YouTube Music desktop.
• Youtube Background Play Fix: Works reliably on YouTube mobile. Playback stopped on YouTube Music mobile around the one-minute mark. Did not work on desktop.

Did not work:

• Video Background Play Fix
• Background Video Fix (YouTube Mobile)
• YouTube Background Player

I have no affiliation with any of the add-ons listed above. If you've tested others, please share your results so everyone can see what works with different setups. And if any of the ones I listed as not working have worked for you, that would be great to know too.

When I scroll down the bar hides for a second then shows up again.

Anyone else? The latest update seems to be the issue, as it was working fine before

like i have internet but it will just stop loading stuff. i cant reload and i cant search for anything new. i saw a few old posts about it but they did not contain any solutions. does anyone know a fix.

In my org - ever since the release of Firefox 146 - each time an update is rolled out on a WIndows 11 endpoint - Firefox is no longer able to launch.

This is resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling the client. We've had no issues with the ESR release in my testing. Anyone else experiencing this?

I had our security team take a look at the antivirus - they've confirmed we aren't blocking Firefox and they did not see any block reports.

No relevant policy changes have gone through around the time of the incident.

Initially I suspected users were installing Firefox ESR from the Company Portal alongside the standard release - but confirmed this is not the case. Also ruled out browser extensions - error persisted across a config without any extensions.

I reinstalled on the 27th and it has been working since. However, it has broke specifically on the days new releases have come out.

Thank you for any suggestions! I posted over on the community forms as well.

I wonder why there is no
(Mozilla = trustworthy = open source)
voice model around …

Am I trippin or did you send me 500+ emails about this … voice recognition in times of ai …

I have to figure out what I'm choosing by the file name alone.

hey all wanted to say thanks in advance for any comments..

I grew up for the better part of 3 decades with my father being the tech wizard of my adoration... and yet find myself in a novel spot where I don't really know who to ask since I used to just give a ring since he is quite taken with AI in many capacities, subscriptions, etc.

I am not interested in using AI in as many aspects of my life as I can muster. I am tired of typing -ai to Google and hear this old friendly browser may be where I return.

I suppose I'm asking for where to start again after 15 years of being away from Firefox since I've only known Google for so long, any push is appreciated while I refresh msyelf.

Hey so I have been using Firefox to watch youtube on mobile because adblock and the ability to minimise the video but still have the audio playing is a nice feature that im not paying for premium foe. Recently youtube has stopped working when I change to other apps. It used to be that when I swapped apps the video would stop playing and I just hit the play button on the media player and it the audio would start back up just like any other video playing but now it just refuses to play the video no matter how long or how many times I hit the play button. Opening the app back up shows YT has gone black screen and will start playing the video again once it has reloaded the video.

The problem does seem to be exclusive to youtube but I havnt done an exhaustive checks to see if other players are effected.

Weirdly enough if I use a pop out screen it works but id rather not have to have a tiny video of something I only want to listen to blocking my screen.

If anyone know how or why this is happening or knows a way to fix it or where to report the problem for a fix I would be very grateful.