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I installed the Video Downloader extension for Android on my Samsung A8 tablet. But since I can't find any directions for it I can't get it to work. I've disabled every other extension that's installed for this device; there's only 3 other extensions installed: uBlock Origin, Adguard Adblocker and Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker, and they're all disabled. Ordinarily, I wouldn't even care, but the Video Downloadhelper extension for Firefox desktop/windows has suddenly quit working, so I was hoping to get this extension working until I can figure out why the desktop extension has quit working.

I have used Firefox as my standard browser, but now I cannot go deeper into a site, until I see the Message "The address was not found. The browser was unable to find the host-server to the address given." Nor can I go to next page if I have opened the first page. I have Firefox in a Danish version. How can I enable the browser to continue the search? - My proposal will be to uninstall Firefox from my Android phone and afterwards reinstall it, but I am nervous that this means that I lose the data already stored in Mozilla. I have tried other browsers than Mozila. They are able to search through. I hope you have the optimal solution of my problem. I prefer to browse with Firefox.

So for Facebook, I switch to the desktop site via the triple dot menu and it changes to the desktop site. But at one point, something does acrefresh of the page - I didn't select. It reverts to the mobile page. But when I click on the triple dot menu, it says I am using the desktop site. However, the page still is on the mobile site. If I go back it is still showing the desktop site. I turn it off but it slides back to the desktop menu.

When I first started using my tablet, the browser seemed to function as it does on my computer. For example, Facebook messages would open within the Facebook page. Now, I have to open the Facebook messenger app for those messages. I'd rather not have to do that. I'm thinking I may have clicked a button to optimize for mobile, but I can't figure out how to undo that. Please help.

Thank you.

blocks my passwords with screen lock request ..can it be turned off. I don't use lock on this tablet

I have to enter PW manually every time for Breezeline TV.

For my business profile on Google, there is an option to generate and share a link to clients that allows them, with one tap, to navigate to the page for writing a Google Review.

I hyperlinked this url into some text and a png of a thumbs up icon in the body of an email in Gmail.

On Firefox Desktop (and other browsers including mobile Samsung Internet), there's no problem. The link takes me right to the page.

On mobile, the link throws a 404 error.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Flip 5 Android 14 Firefox Version 133.0.3 Cleared cache Does not work in private tabs either

Here are those details:

Review Link generated by Google: https://g.page/r/CZU9ZqRULlsREAE/review

Link I get when I send the email to myself and click on the text or image: https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYjIs6gPJtMZZ9_PVVs93qcPTvn8WnbMwzTz35PpM6sMZTPVGixOtD2Rhuv4fJ13I7TrsKkVfw_XdcZ3pzY0DQ223tkm6n03QN9sAN-s7T857aqdTp0I2CSwoI8K5tdEW9BtElr29F7uLjXZ_Psnv5CODjRSL51HwY=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/0f7c1c8a488a71bbf311193b0/images/cd9d6dd3-c126-8a4d-0664-ed11b413b61f.png

I've reached out to Google for help, but they simply told me to use other browsers. Since I can't control which browsers my clients use, and because I want this to be as easy and direct as possible, I have settled to include instructions in the email for Firefox users to click on a hyperlink that takes them to the business page, rather than the review-writing page directly, for now.

In the meantime, does anyone know what's going on here and how to resolve this issue?

Thanks very much. Jake

For almost a year now I've been experiencing constant locking up of certain functions on Firefox for Android at the start of a browsing session. Sometimes this also happens mid-session with certain websites (mostly noticed with 9gag and Reddit).

The failure takes the following form:

• The current page usually fails to load. Or, it appears to load but is not scrollable. Simple pages may be fully scrollable but links or buttons will not work.
• Tab cannot be changed either through the swipe gesture or the selection menu.
• Settings menu can be opened and settings can be changed - this includes extensions management as well.
• If the current tab is closed in the tab selection menu the purple selection box will disappear along with the tab and no new tab can be selected.
• After 2-3 minutes all of the tab-related actions will suddenly update at once.

Over the past few months I have discovered two ways to work around this incredibly frustrating persistent issue.

• Open Extensions, disable or enable an extension, then exit the extension management
• Open About:Memory and trigger a GC cleanup
• Minimizing and reopening the app has no effect
• Shutting down and launching the app has no effect
• Restarting the device and launching the app has no effect
• Performing a memory cleanup in Android settings has no effect.

Leaving the device alone for 15-30 minutes seems to make it eligible to re-trigger. This problem is intermittent (not occurring every time) but consistent in its symptoms.

I experience this issue at least once a day on two devices, but much more commonly on my Samsung A9 tablet with 8GB of memory compared to an Android smartphone with 4GB of memory. I suspect this may have something to do with site memory being held onto or being kept active which is blocking navigation until it gets cleaned up or is refreshed, but I have no idea.