Firefox for Android Community Forum

Install often does not work nearly as well as the web page. For example, spelling bee "installed" on my Samsung tab A7, has difficulty accepting taps. Only about 1 in 3 taps will register a letter. On my brand new Pixel 7A, the spelling bee app is not in dark mode, even though it is in the browser. And my entire phone is dark mode. Also, I can't click on the share or overflow menus. Installing the New York times games page has the same problems. And last, on my pixel 7a, the USGS earthquakes app jumps around all over the place making it useless. It would be nice to have both options, "install" and "add to home screen" in case the install fails.

I am on firefox android. Currently whenever I try to download a file there's a good chance that it fails (like 70%). If the download on a file fails then itll always fail. I have tried clearing cache, disabling all the add ons, enabling external download manager and altering enhanced tracking protection level but nothing works. The only way to "fix" it is by uninstalling but it only solves the issues temporarily. After a certain number of downloads (still uncertain on the number) it goes back to failling. It's incredibly inconvenient to have to do that every 1-2days because it resets all my cookies and I have to relog on all my websites. I have like 30gb on my storage so it couldnt be that. Please any suggestion would be helpful, I feel like I have tried everything at this point. Android version 13 Using the latest version of firefox

I'm i was not sure how to open an issue on Github since its not possible, also i can't create a pull request as non collaborator for this issue.

It would be very kind from the dev's to add an shortcut for android smart tv's like newpipe and libretube are currently doing it. It should be (hopefully) a small code snippet.

This is (hopefully) done by the AndroidManifest.xml with:

<intent-filter>
               <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

               <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
               <category android:name="android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER" />
           </intent-filter>
           

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/601b1ef742aa9bb0b8bb765b86247a132adf34e3/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L220

https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube/blob/2ef1600886cc61a95982a73c83cdc79319e57e51/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L104

That might be it since:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amozilla-mobile%2Ffirefox-android+androidmanifest.xml&type=code

looks rather slim compared to the launcher options.

Or other options regarding potential fixes for the issue (Looks like LibreTube is using https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube/blob/2ef1600886cc61a95982a73c83cdc79319e57e51/app/src/main/java/com/github/libretube/helpers/ShortcutHelper.kt but maybe used for something different

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

maybe this: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/601b1ef742aa9bb0b8bb765b86247a132adf34e3/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/settings/ContentSettingsFragment.java#L60  ?)

Thank you for considering to add this small but handy feature in order to be able to launch the browser from the smart tv's shortcut menu.

I hope i did not offend any one by opening this. Thanks for the good work.

Due to the Firewall of our government, we Chinese couldn't download Firefox Android on Google Play Store without violating the law. And, neither Github nor F-droid provides the service for users in China to download the app directly.

How could we download it?

Everything is better in Firefox except the download manager. Most of the time when I try to download any file or video it fails. Please improve your download manager.

I am trying to download some files and they are downloading and same can be seen in notifications but when trying to open download from that notification it's not opening, also opening download from side panel shows that there are no downloads, also i am not using incognito and I am signed in.

When i download movies and web series download start but some time network problem stop download. Some browser like brave, samsung internet are started failed download automatically but firefox doesn't and when i tap on retry download start but always in zip file doesn't extract. Please improve download manager.if you consider please provide protonpass manager.bitawarden play store data protection is note good. Its share details with third party.

Hello Mozilla team, provide a way for us to view our downloading file in the app itself and not on the notification bar, for me it doesn't help at all. If not so, then is it really necessary for me to lose my downloading file when I clear the Mozilla app from my recent apps? Isnt it supposed to continue downloading even when the app is cleared? Please solve this.

Hello, I already have the stable release of Firefox for Android installed on my Samsung Galaxy A50 smartphone. What exactly will happen if Firefox Beta for Android is installed alongside the stable release of Firefox for Android? Will there be new app settings for the Beta version on the phone or are the stable release and the Beta app settings combined? I am signed into YouTube in the stable release Firefox for Android version. Once the Beta version is installed, do I have to sign out of the stable release version and sign into YouTube on the Beta version? The stable release version of Firefox for Android has unresolved issues, especially regarding YouTube, that the Beta version configurations may be able fix. Please let me know the answers to these questions and any other concerns I should know about before I install the Beta version of Firefox for Android alongside the stable release version. Thank you.