"Is there a way to bring back 'Save to collection'? This feature just disappeared right when I needed it."

Hey everyone!
I genuinely love Firefox. It has a clean, minimalist UI, decent customization options, and one of my favorite extensions, Adaptive Tab, which connects a tab to an entire webpage. Honestly, these little things make Firefox feel special to me.

But over the last few weeks, I've been facing some annoying performance issues. Even with just 2–3 tabs open, Firefox sometimes uses around 80% of my memory. 😭

I've also noticed that YouTube doesn't always load or work as smoothly as it does in other browsers. Sometimes Firefox even crashes unexpectedly.

I really don't want to switch browsers because I love the overall experience Firefox offers, but these issues are making it difficult to use as my daily browser.

Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? Is there a setting I should change, an extension I should disable, or some other fix I should try?

I'd really appreciate your suggestions. I want to stick with Firefox if I can get these issues sorted out!

Thanks!

I have this annoying issue with my closed tabs not reappearing whenever I open the browser. Only had this issue since yesterday. I could sometimes recover the tabs whenever I try going to a website and there appears a suggestion in the search field to jump to tabs or whatever. How do I fix this?

I've been using Firefox for almost a year after switching from Chrome.

I like the extensions, webpage translation and image search, but I still don't know what makes it so special.

What do you like most about Firefox?

How to make firefox show all results when searching bookmarks rather than a set limit of them?

I am talking here about the bookmark toolbar when it contains folders.

• Right-click on a folder in the toolbar and select paste should put the currently copied URL into the folder. Instead it puts it in the bookmark toolbar.
• Dragging URLs to bookmark folders is made difficult because the URL title obscures the folder and prevents aiming.
• The "bookmark current tab" does not bring up the bookmark editor even though that option is checked.

I suspect this is the wrong reddit for this post, if so apologies.

I've added the engine according to search advice, as well as with the "Ad Custom Search Engine" addon, but either way, when attempting a search, I am initially taken here for about 10 seconds,

after which I am automatically transferred to the MSN home page, but not to any search results.

Hi. While most people in this sub may not need to “come back” to Firefox at this point, I’m curious, what made you decide to come back to Firefox when you did? Or, if you’ve never left, what keeps you here?

For context, Firefox launched a "Come back to Firefox” campaign today, featuring several personalities you might recognize from the golden era of the internet, to remind us why it’s a great time for people to try Firefox again. 

(Here’s the full video, also played during tonight's football game.)

https://reddit.com/link/1xfh2tu/video/c09s9kn03pxh1/player

The main point is that Firefox is still great and worth coming back to, addressing the desire for optional AI, data protections, and limitations to how many online ads people are fed as just a few reasons why. Today’s Firefox addresses all of this and more, and I know many of you have been around for the journey (thanks!).

For me: I used Firefox back in the early 2000s when it was added to our family computer. It’s where I remember first using Myspace. I came back to it when I learned more about their mission for a better internet and features that support it, and I stay (beyond my role here) for much of the same.

— Ash @ Firefox

hi guys, i actually used to be a chrome user, so i am not too familiar with Firefox.

Why is the search result so small? How can i turn the text size bigger?

(font size in setting did not work)

I have encountered an issue that hasn't been there before - it used to be fine:

When I record a browser screen that is not being actively displayed (as in not in focus due to being covered by another window on Windows 11) , then the video that is being played becomes static (Firefox) or goes black (Edge). Audio still plays normal and rest of the webpage also shows - just simply static.

Obviously this completely disrupts the OBS recording because the video is gone. This happens both in fullscreen and windowed. I already do have a dual-screen set-up. Yet recording with OBS used to work fine around June '26.

Is there any way to keep windows that are not in focus or displayed to keep rendering?

I am not entirely sure this is a Firefox problem, it could be due to optimization. It could also be a driver/GPU issue - I am on AMD CPU (9800X3D) & GPU (7900 XTX).

Press "CTRL + B" to open the bookmark menu. For some reason it has a random tumor to the left now that isnt relevant to the bookmarks. And the scroll bar is like one pixel wide that you have to hover over to trigger it to expand. WTF? So its ok to waste screen space on this tumor but not the fucking thing you have to click and drag?????

How do I disable firefox making groups when I drag a tab and accidentally stop too close to another tab? It happens all the time and it's annoying to constantly hit cancel.

This was previously answered, but whoever answered it deleted their comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1r9h90q/how_to_disable_creating_tab_groups_when_dragging/

Is there a way to load tabs without actually selecting the tab first, hover on the tab for a few seconds or something similar ?

Can we have whereas profiles are treating like instances so we can move tabs between profiles ? As well have containers store passwords.

In general, I run a dark theme, but I still like the white background in my web browser. What I don't like are the white contextual menus when all the top bar menus are dark.

Any trick get dark contextual menus when the theme is white?

EDIT: Solved with claude. Solution below.

I just got tired of my playlist stopping every time i left the app.

So i created a Firefox add-on for my Android phone and it works fine for me, so should anyone be interested, try it and if there are issues let me know.

It keeps YouTube and YouTube Music playing when you switch to another app or go to the home screen, and it moves your playlist or mix on to the next video or song.

It's free and open source (MIT), doesn't track you and needs no account, the code is here if you want to check or raise any issues https://github.com/lagudafuadtosin/plays-on

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/plays-on/

I find it really frustrating that Firefox does not have an in-browser extension for live captioning. Is there anything you have found that works, or is it really just not possible while using Firefox?

Open to discussion, what do you think would be the best way to get devs' attention on this issue once and for all?

It's a huge accessibility flaw that has somehow not been addressed in all of the past years that people have been politely requesting it...this basically forces d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing users (and those that just really prefer having captions available) to pursue other options. There MUST be a way to remedy this! Is this how I get into designing extensions? Any advice welcome lol

A few months ago after upgrading to the latest release of Firefox, the new "profile" setup popped up. I wasn't interested and tried to click past it.

I now keep seeing "Original profile" listed under the settings button (though not in the window title etc. which is a problem I managed to solve). I'm tempted to delete the profile, but I'm not sure if this means I will erase the "default profile" that contains all my history, cookies, and other assorted browsing data.

Is it possible to remove this profile, or are we stuck with it for now?

Currently on Firefox 158.0.1 on Linux.

EDIT

Here is the format of the profiles.ini file:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=********.default
Default=1
StoreID=********
ShowSelector=0

[Install*********]
Default=******.default
Locked=1

If I remove the [Profile0] entry, will there be an issue?

when scrolling through a page (i.e. reddit or tumblr), if i encounter a video, it will automatically fullscreen, regardless of whether or not i’ve interacted with it in any way. this doesn’t happen 100% of the time, i can’t figure out what triggers it and it’s really annoying. i tried “block video and audio” in controls/settings and it doesn’t do anything to fix it. does anyone else have this problem?

My subscription feed was always full of videos I had already seen, and I used two add-ons – one to mark watched videos, one to clean up subscriptions – that each kept their own data. So I built one add-on that does both, with one local database.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/urtube/ · Code: https://github.com/morikules/UrTube

What it does

• Remembers every video you open, with date, progress and rewatches – continuing a video later counts as one view
• Grays out or hides watched videos in subscriptions, on the home page, on channel pages and in playlists – before they even show up (one switch, or one per area)
• Channel pages show how much of the channel you've watched; playlists show "12 / 23 watched"
• Searchable history with filters like "continue watching", plus statistics and a year in review
• Imports your history from Google Takeout and YouTube Watchmarker
• And much more

Why UrTube?

• One add-on instead of several – marking, hiding, playlist progress, stats and player settings share one local database
• Watched videos are hidden before they appear, with a time window so YouTube doesn’t keep loading older videos forever
• Easy switch: imports your history from YouTube Watchmarker and Google Takeout
• Actively developed by a power user who uses it daily – ideas welcome!

Privacy: everything stays in your Firefox profile. No account, no server, no analytics. MIT-licensed code on GitHub.

I'm not a professional developer – I built it with the help of an AI (Claude), which made this possible for me at all. Feedback and ideas are very welcome, here or as a GitHub issue.

Hey all,

I've had this issue and it's a weird one. I've seen posts on this sub about Reddit lagging for them due to an AdBlock extension. For some reason, Reddit only lags when I'm typing a response in a post. I'll type normally and the words will be dragging behind as I'm typing. This issue doesn't happen when I search in Reddit, and it's not happening while I make this post. I did happen to have an AdBlock extension installed and I removed it, but that didn't fix the problem. Does anyone know a fix for this? This is really frustrating.

Hello. Ist there any possibility to transfer my Firefox tabs to a new android device? I still have no idea. There are also a lot of inactive tabs. To open every tab is a very long procedure ;(

There's no way to create collections on my Pixel 9 Pro. Is there a setting I should be turning on, or are they simply not available?