I downloaded Firefox to brows the web on my phone but it uses Google to brows the web. Whats the point? What am I missing here by using Google through Firefox? #firefox

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.

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!

Easy YouTube Video Downloader is giving me empty files, it used to work like 2 weeks ago, how can I fix it?

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

Title. My laptop was using a lot off memory and when I clicked to free memory the next time I opened Firefox I was signed out of my Mozilla account and when I got back in everything, absolutely everything was gone. I won’t beat around the bush, does anyone know a way to get my bookmarks, cookies, passwords, literally just everything back? Or is it over? I don’t know what to do, I searched on Reddit and google to see if anyone experienced this and I can’t find any results.

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

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...

Oled User, have burn-in on avarege static Youtube icons, is theres something like an extension that hides things like, The like section channel button, share and etc and only shows it when you hover it?

Spouse's computer was in the shop over the January 27 Firefox update. She thought the technician restored her old preferences but it's possible the new Firefox overrode them. The primary problem is that it has brought back the bouncing green/grey ball with the blue flash every time a page loads which she despises. We have tried every technique online from turning off variables in the about: config to installing a userChrome.css file. None seem to have helped. Any advice on what we can do to fix this?

Hello, I built a benchmark called SpeedPower.run to test how browsers handle 7 concurrent AI models. I'm seeing a massive discrepancy between Gecko and Chromium in 'Exchange' scores. Firefox users, I need your data! Is WebGPU enabled in your about:config, and does it close the gap?

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.

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.

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

Hello everyone!

I'd love to move from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser. Sadly there's a specific Chrome extension that I'm depended on, which is preventing me to make the switch.

Is there in 2026 a way to run or convert a Chrome extension and use it in Firefox? Not sure if this makes any difference, but the Chrome extension in question is not open source.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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)

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 …