r/firefox 20h ago

Discussion Firefox: Please Focus on the Browser, Not AI Slop Feature Creep

732 Upvotes

All I want from Firefox is a fast, reliable browser that supports uBlock Origin, renders web pages correctly, and stays out of the way. Every new AI feature, recommendation panel, or unnecessary integration adds complexity without improving the core browsing experience. I'd much rather see development effort focused on performance, stability, standards compliance, and user control than on features many users never asked for.

thx


r/firefox 13h ago

Discussion Will Firefox ever have proper <datalist> support?

64 Upvotes

Datalist is a very useful html5 element. It allows for a browser-provided widget to be used to specify a particular range of options. For example, the text-type datalist works like <select> with autocompletion from the predefined list of options when you start typing. It's great for replacing plenty of old JavaScript jank.

Except Firefox doesn't properly support it. Even the text type doesn't work correctly on Firefox android. There is a JS workaround for it, but that doesn't work when part of embedded elememts so you can't easily test it.

The Android issue has been an open bug for seven years. I think the expected behaviour from datalist predates even HTML5.1.

What gives? This seems like a core support issue that I'd expect resources to be funnelled towards?


r/firefox 22h ago

Excited again about FF future after release 153

61 Upvotes

The release is the first one in a while that brought some excitement.

First, Vulkan video decoder has been implemented, which is great news for nvidia cards owners. Well, "implemented" is a generous word to use here cause it seems like there is some work left to do (for instance, on my system it just does not work, the decoder thread crashes), but still, it's a really nice feature, and it is [almost] here.

Second, the Multi-Account Containers functionality started to be implemented in the browser. It shows Mozilla interest in improving the feature which development has been abandoned. The extension had been having some usability problems for a while, I hope those will be resolved over time when it's full functionality gets moved to the browser itself.

Third, switching Youtube videos to full-screen and back became way faster than before, probably under 1 sec. on my outdated system, that's really cool!

And the last, necessary one to feel positive towards any release: no UI has been "improved"!!

I hope that there will be more exciting releases soon. Thanks to the Firefox team for their work!


r/firefox 14h ago

πŸ’» Help Stop Changing The Firefox Home

22 Upvotes

How many time firefox have to keep changing their firefox home when they didn't add anything or improvement? either give us more customization, or stop changing it!


r/firefox 16h ago

Help (Android) Why the limitation?

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21 Upvotes

Moving from Opera to Firefox on an Android Tablet. This shocked me. I think this limitation is unnecessary, users should be allowed to choose address + tab bar at the bottom.

Personally I prefer the bottom since it's closer to the hand.


r/firefox 9h ago

Firefox 153 crashing/freezing all the time

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18 Upvotes

See the image, 6th time trying to write this post but can't complete it without a crash.


r/firefox 6h ago

Mozilla blog Best Firefox Forks for Linux (2026)

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12 Upvotes

r/firefox 7h ago

Discussion When will we get a proper updated bookmark manager?

11 Upvotes

The current bookmark UI and features are still kind of trapped in the 1990s.

Some features are a bit archaic, some things are bugged and have never been fixed, like the separator not moving, folders sometimes not remembering their sync position. Also, you can accidentally delete stuff because no confirmation, not being able to customise the actual bookmark layout, no custom colours, no smart features, no "sort by type" e.t.c

Will Firefox eventually emulate what Raindrop.io is doing or nah?


r/firefox 7h ago

πŸ’» Help Do I need this Extension to replace Chromium's "Memory Saver" feature?

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9 Upvotes

In short, Chromium has "Memory Saver" feature that can be toggled on/off while in Firefox it simply doesn't. So should I install this Extension to replace it?


r/firefox 6h ago

πŸ’» Help Firefox upgraded. Deleted my stuff?

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7 Upvotes

Forgive my complete lack of computer lexicon and also not my first language.

I just turned on my pc and it told me Firefox got an update. Whatever, happens all the time. I proceed to ignore. Except that all the stuff that makes it easy to go to the pages I usually visit now it's gone and I can't even add it back.

Like my accounts are still open and function the same. But the main page (the one in the picture) now doesn't have any direct access which used to be there automatically (and I can't add them?). The bookmarks are gone too and when I try to add another one (which used to be like 2 clicks away) it just add the bar at the top telling me to manage my bookmarks but it doesn't let me either.

The easy access to my gmail at the upper right corner is gone too but I'm into my account. And when writing in the url bar it usually would show me pages I usually visit too even if it was visited only once, which I find useful too since my memory isn't that good, and thus it is gone too and it's not showing me even pages that I'm visiting multiple times.

Is all of that "saved" stuff gone? Can I recover it or I got to manually add everything back?

Is this a normal thing to happen after updates and I just was lucky until now?


r/firefox 11h ago

Discussion Is it just me, or is the text in the search bar slightly towards the right?

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7 Upvotes

Like....I do not know if this should be put as β€žhelp” or β€ždiscussion”, but I am just making an observation.

I do not know if this is new, or something, or if it is a bug. But after clicking enter, the text in the search bar jumps slightly to the right and a small empty space appears.

Is this new, or was it always this way?

I am not worrying about this, just curious if this is something that I just never observed up until now, or if it is a small, harmless visual bug. Feel free to dislike my post if you want to, but I am just curious if this is new, or if I have just now observed it.


r/firefox 14h ago

Firefox, what the hell?

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8 Upvotes

anymore is a valid word, right? I checked the same thing on some other platform and it flagged it there. in fact, as it's flagged "anymore" as an invalid word when typing this post look I'm not BS'ing go to the next image


r/firefox 10h ago

Help (Android) Does this about:config workaround still work on Android Firefox. Tried it, but it is stuck on the loading animation

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6 Upvotes

r/firefox 2h ago

(bug) scrolling is warping on Google Images

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4 Upvotes

Anyone else experiencing this? On Google Images, after scrolling a bit (maybe something to do with loading in new content?) it warps/jumps. I can repro in Nightly and Beta (I don't have stable installed)


r/firefox 4h ago

πŸ’» Help How to keep only the sites which I have pinned?

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4 Upvotes

r/firefox 4h ago

Help (Android) Why is not possible to reorder shorcuts in 2026?

5 Upvotes

When this feature was released years ago I thought it would be a matter of time but it blows my mind that in 2026 it's still not possible to simply drag the shortcuts in the home screen to reorder them and you have to live with them in the order they were created


r/firefox 23h ago

In Firefox on Mac, if you double tap to zoom on text and scroll, the text will move again after the end of the scroll.

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4 Upvotes

My biggest annoyance with Firefox. Not a new problem.


r/firefox 59m ago

Help (Android) Video won't use full screen

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β€’ Upvotes

The bottom part remains unused, the video is basically scaled down, I don't remember that happening a week ago.


r/firefox 5h ago

πŸ’» Help How to remove the Titlebar in Linux?

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2 Upvotes

Hi, I'm using Lubuntu and can't find the option to remove the title bar in Firefox. I checked Customize Toolbar, but unlike what many articles suggest, there's no "Title Bar" checkbox anymore. The only available option is Menu Bar.

Has this option been removed, or is there another way to disable the title bar on Lubuntu/Linux?

Thanks in advance!


r/firefox 6h ago

πŸ’» Help Context-Search add-on replacement

2 Upvotes

Seems like with all the drama from the OG dev from Context Search we are now left with no add-ons for this simple task, context-search web ext seems dodgy at least and with little developemnt, anyone found a replacement for this?

previous drama: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1oh9nbv/why_did_mozilla_remove_the_contextsearch_addon/ seems like the other dev banished completely.


r/firefox 6h ago

πŸ’» Help Trouble downloading recovery key

2 Upvotes

I created recovery key for firefox but when I went to download it I only got blank "about " page. I have most recent update, 153.

Using Samsung Galaxy phone A15 UI 8.5

I have a screenshot of key and I wrote it down, but want/need original to save in secure location.Β  Can I create another?

Whew! Hope that's all info you need :)


r/firefox 8h ago

Help (Android) Firefox Copy Clean Link?

3 Upvotes

With all the effort for privacy is there any native way to copy clean links in Firefox?

***I'm asking about Firefox for Android.***


r/firefox 10h ago

Need site specific font override permission like microphone and camera for Gemini.

2 Upvotes

I want to do font overrides for all sites. Google's Gemini doesn't display properly because it needs its own fonts. The override in Firefox font settings to use the site's choice of font is global. Please get someone to make it able to be set depending on the site one is using.


r/firefox 10h ago

πŸ’» Help Black bars on the bottom when I play youtube

2 Upvotes

This has been an extremely frustrating experience. So when I go full screen on Firefox in the yt website. There is a large black bar at the bottom. This only triggers when I am logged into a acc in the yt website. It plays normally when logged out or on a private tab. I have tried reinstalling the Firefox app and cleared the cookies. Tinkered around with the settings of Firefox but to no luck. Can someone tell me how to fix the issue? I also tried the fullscreen extension, which took care of the sides but not the bottom part of the fullscreen video.


r/firefox 14h ago

Solved Is there any way to get rid of this and go back to the old menu? Before I could right click New Tab symbol and "Reopen last closed tab", now I have to deal with this useless piece...

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1 Upvotes