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Firefox extensions on mobile are already a game changer. I switched a few months ago.

The only downside so far: the way you manage/view downloads isn't so great/intuitive.

I wish Firefox mobile put tabs on the bottom of the screen so it's more accessible to switch back and forth. Also the two-column layout of tab viewer is a subpar experience IMO.

edit: Thanks to the replies, I figured 1) You can put the address bar at the bottom of screen 2) You can swipe on address bar to traverse through the tabs and 3) You can change the tab viewer layout to list view.

(Still, I wished there was an option to list tabs on the bottom like the way Chrome does in on Android.)

you can swipe the address bar to switch between tabs. Better than nothing.

You can do that. It even asks you whether to put it at the bottom when you run Firefox (Android, not sure about iOS) the first time.

The biggest pain point with Android FF for me is that there's no way to get it to close all of the tabs when you close the application.

I have to go through and close each tab one by one first. It's driving me up the wall.

Hit tabs, three dots, close all tabs.

Slightly quicker than doing them one by one.

That's a little better, thank you, but it's still really irritating. I should be able to just close the app and be done with it.

But truly, if this is the biggest issue I have with it, that's pretty good. It just makes me actively irritated every time I use it.

When I was searching around trying to find a resolution with this problem, I found numerous comments saying that Mozilla does not intend to change this behavior in the future. That made me a little mad.

Update: vorticalbox gave me the solution to this in another comment. I take this all back.

Ah, yes that is a nice solution.

My only issue with Firefox is the lack of easy access multiple profiles.

I can live with that, although I wish I could pay to get that fixed.

The tab selector view has a menu with -> close all, does this work for you?

There actually is if you click "delete browsing data on quit"

You can toggle "open tabs" to close all your tabs

> "delete browsing data on quit"

Doesn't that delete all browsing data, though? That's not what I want. I admit that I haven't dared to touch it because I assumed it deleted all browsing data. I'd be thrilled to be mistaken about this.

Not at all you have a selection of things you can turn on.

Open tabs, browse history, cookies, cache, site permissions and downloads.

You can enabled as many as you like.

Just having "open tabs" ticked will only close tabs and nothing else which is what I use

Woah!! Thank you! I guess I shouldn't have been afraid to touch that setting.

In my web searching to find a resolution to this problem, I didn't find a single mention of this. Oh, web, you have failed me again!

Did the web fail you? Looks like the web brought you vorticalbox to help you with this :)

A big issue Firefox mobile has is the refresh-tab-on-change be it switching to different tab or app.

Hmmm. This wasn't happening to me on airplane mode last week. I opened a bunch of tabs on Wikipedia with a connection, and I was able to read them on the plane. It didn't destroy the data.

Is Firefox getting low memory killed on your device?

Thing is it is also happening (not always but very often) merely switching tabs. Maybe Firefox wrongly recognizes a low memory state and unloads tab when moving away from it. It's an open bug[0] for 3y+ (from when was originally reported on GH) now.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807364

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