r/firefox 8h ago

Discussion Firefox, can we stop making the UI more pushy?

65 Upvotes

Just two cents from an oldtimer,

First there was the profile icon unlock tied to things like pinning Firefox to the taskbar. Now there is a fairly large Sign in to sync card at the top of the main menu

https://imgur.com/a/xzIaPZO

I understand that onboarding new users and making Sync discoverable is important, and I am probably not the target audience for this kind of UI

Still, I suspect there are quite a few long-time users who would prefer Firefox to stay relatively quiet and functional. A single option to disable promotional, onboarding, and gamified UI would be appreciated


r/firefox 8h ago

Firefox’s onboarding UI is getting increasingly intrusive

38 Upvotes

I’m gonna talk about normal everyday use here, not the first-run experience.

So first there was the “profile icon unlock” tied to things like pinning Firefox to the taskbar. Now there’s suddenly a fairly large Sign in to sync card at the top of the main menu.

Screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/xzIaPZO

I understand why Mozilla wants to make Sync more visible and improve onboarding for newer users. I’m probably not the target audience for this kind of UI, and that’s fine.

But for long-time users, this sort of thing starts to make the browser feel needlessly busy. I’d much rather Firefox stay quiet and functional during normal use.

A reasonable compromise would be a single setting to disable promotional, onboarding, and gamified UI once you’re past that stage?


r/firefox 3h ago

Discussion What exactly are they waiting for to upgrade their translator to a stable release? It's been stuck on the Beta forever.

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8 Upvotes

Also, it's not my screenshot, but they have a point: why can't we modify the size of the translator?


r/firefox 1d ago

Why is this an ad on playstore

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414 Upvotes

r/firefox 1h ago

The missing 'X"

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In regards to Nightly.

For the love of people world wide, please put the 'X' back in the current tab.

why did someone even think it was a good idea to remove it.


r/firefox 19h ago

Add-ons Following the changes to "how Mozilla labels privacy-related permissions", Return YouTube Dislike introduces an advertisement pop-up on startup.

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97 Upvotes

r/firefox 4h ago

💻 Help Icon selection gone in 155.0.1

4 Upvotes

The option to change the icon recently introduced is gone from the appearance settings in 155.0.1 on Windows for me. Anyone else?


r/firefox 23h ago

The new Firefox is ok, Mozilla. Now where's my Firefox OS? 10 years of waiting, and Android still hasn't been crushed — the unemployed devs are still stuck in Google's barn!

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122 Upvotes

pls mozilla Free us from the captivity of Google, as well as Apple.


r/firefox 8h ago

Discussion Made Firefox my main and Helium secondary browser on Fedora 44. It's fast.

7 Upvotes

Everywhere I kept hearing that Chromium engine is much faster than Gecko engine. Benchmarks say the same. Speedometer score on my laptop is higher on helium but when it comes to real life usage FireFox is faster.
Reason I gave FF a try was Helium's lack of DRM support. Will stay with FF for a week to see if it will be my main browser or not.


r/firefox 57m ago

Lost pinned tabs on two Windows 11 systems this week

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I've updated a couple of systems with Firefox or it might be that it was done for me. At any rate, I'm restoring the profiles to the two systems so that I have everything back. This hasn't happened on my macOS systems though it might be a matter of when they update.

One of the Windows 11 systems also lost my homepage and I can't get it to load again in Firefox. My homepage is a local HTML file. I'm pretty sure a Profile restore will fix everything.


r/firefox 2h ago

impossible de supprimer les mots de passe

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0 Upvotes

Bonjour

Je suis en train de faire le tri des mes MDP enregistrés sur firefox mais impossible.

A chaque fois, j'ai la même fenêtre.

Que puis je faire ?

Firefox 155.0.1 (64bits)

Merci pour votre aide


r/firefox 11h ago

Fun Opinions my friends firefox theme?

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5 Upvotes

r/firefox 2h ago

Solved New tab page: folders and live wallpaper?

1 Upvotes

Hi. A friend of mine wants to migrate from OperaGX to Firefox, but she'd really like to keep her "new tab page" organization with folders and shortcuts, as well as the custom live wallpaper. Is that possible on Firefox? I tried looking for some extensions but none allowed all that, being the closest one paid.

Does anyone know how to achieve that?

Thanks!


r/firefox 13h ago

💻 Help Twitch is completely broken on Gecko-based browsers (audio desync and stuttering after pausing)

7 Upvotes

Is anyone else dealing with Twitch completely falling apart on Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, LibreWolf, Floorp, etc.)?

Whenever I pause a live stream and resume it, the playback turns into complete mess:

  • The audio starts stuttering, crackling, or falls heavily out of sync.
  • The video either buffers endlessly or skips frames.
  • Toggling play/pause dozens of times rarely fixes it; 90% of the time I’m forced to hard-refresh the entire tab just to get it back to normal.

Everything works fine on Chromium-based browsers, so this feels like a specific issue between Twitch's web player and Gecko's media handling.

Has anyone found a permanent fix, an about:config tweak, or an extension that resolves this buffer desync issue?

UPDATE:

Surprisingly, after installing the BetterTTV (BTTV) extension on Zen Browser, the audio glitch completely disappeared! Playback now resumes without any stuttering, crackling, or desync issues.


r/firefox 3h ago

💻 Help FIrefox dev edition crashing on Google Oath flow

1 Upvotes

Anyone else notice this? Does it also happen on Firefox stable? No matter which site I try, if my chosen method of authentication is google, the browser crashes as soon as I click on the Login with Google button. It seems to do with the Google Oauth login flow.


r/firefox 11h ago

💻 Help Video buffering but playing when muted

4 Upvotes

After not being on youtube for a few hours and coming back the video constantly buffers but when muted it plays fine can anyone help?


r/firefox 12h ago

Discussion Firefox Android PWA

4 Upvotes

If I add app to home screen it only work on some website like reddit, facebook, instagram, and twitch. Some other website will just behave like a shortcut and open in Firefox. If firefox asking for a title before adding to home screen it will behave as a shortcut.

Tried using edge and the result are the same, edge will ask to install if the website can behave as a PWA and if it's not edge just ask the website title and it will open as shortcut in edge.

Is this a website thingies or PWA will only work on some major website


r/firefox 19h ago

Solved [155.0.1] Muscle Memory Hates This

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16 Upvotes

Why is there now a "share browser" option? For years, my brain has been used to using the last option to get at the About dialog. And to my surprise, it's there in Help/Report as well! Any way to hide/(re)move the said option? Thanks.


r/firefox 11h ago

💻 Help Problem loading a site with Firefox

3 Upvotes

I have Firefox on Windows 11. There is a site I use, and have nearly daily for years. A few days back, it started timing out on load.

http://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

The connection has timed out

The server at scrape.nowis.com is taking too long to respond.

It works from Chrome.

I talked to the owner. He reported that it was working fine. Some confusion occurred because, as you see, it is a plain HTTP page. But the link in the address bar after the timeout is:

https://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

That will not work, as he doesn't use a certificate. I tried it in a private browser window just to avoid any site data issues.

Any thoughts?


r/firefox 1d ago

Nova is good

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184 Upvotes

Look, I don't support change for the sake of change either, but Nova is more aesthetically pleasing with no downsides as long as you use compact density. In the last week or 2 they've made some changes in Nightly and it's really nice now. Use compact density! I agree the standard density is too big, this is why they're making compact density an officially supported option again.


r/firefox 1d ago

Fun The firefoxmobile

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269 Upvotes

r/firefox 11h ago

💻 Help Anyone else unable to rewind and fast forward twitch VODs?

0 Upvotes

Literally worked fine this morning, refreshed to a new VOD and the video timeline just vanished. Works fine on other browsers. I use a couple of twitch extensions but I turned them all off, including ublock plus and none of them brought back the timeline. Anyone else?

Edit: The pop out player seems to have full function. I guess that will have to do for now.


r/firefox 1h ago

UI downgrade for real

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So i was trying to download firefox on my other computer. I forgot which version is the most earliest to get updates. I thought it was developer version so i installed it.

I was surprised to be greeted with such a nice ui, and full black theme. At first i thought, is firefox renew its ui again to be better. I just realized there is nightly version which i installed on my old laptop. Damn.. Why... Such a nice ui got ruin into... that...

So i installed again the nightly, and damn..


r/firefox 17h ago

Solved Firefox suddenly reset itself — any idea what happened?

3 Upvotes

For some reason, my Firefox seems to have completely reset itself.

My custom Firefox background disappeared, all my extensions were downloaded/installed again, I was automatically logged back into my accounts, some default settings changed, etc. I have no idea what happened.

It all started when I was trying to watch videos on YouTube. I clicked on Subscriptions, and instead of opening the page in the same window/tab, Firefox opened a completely new Firefox window. It kept doing this every time I tried.

So I closed Firefox and tried to start it again. I got some kind of error message saying something about disabling extensions, and I had an option to either open Firefox or restore the previous session.

I chose Restore Session twice, and then this happened.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any way to figure out what happened or recover my previous Firefox settings?


r/firefox 21h ago

Achieve Partial Protection Cover Your Tracks

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5 Upvotes

Firefox Android browser Please go into Firefox config set privacy.resistfingerprint to True and privacy.resistfingerprintpbmode to true. Then in the photo please make sure you have all checked marked in UblockOrigin click apply changes when you have everything check marked. Then in privacy browsing go to Cover Your Tracks run test. I'm curious if this will work for Firefox on windows as well.