Why is 'every day' the lowest setting to remove them automatically and not when I close the app?
Instead you can use the "Delete browsing data on quit" feature but only enable "Open tabs", tho this feature by design only works if you close the browser by pressing "Quit" from the 3 dots button on the toolbar
If you don't need its HTTPS Filtering feature then just use something like rethinkdns
had that issue since updating my phone to android 13, mozilla really needs to fix it
Google doesn't fund firefox, funding sounds like they have some sort of patronage, but that's not true. Firefox have a business relationship with Google where they get paid to set Google as the default search engine. I'm not sure if my answer is going to satisfy you as I may have interpreted your question wrong, however, despite the concerns we might have now about Firefox, switching to it is still preferable compared to using a Chromium-based browser.
Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab
That shouldn't happen, I've just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser
I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print
Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config
Don't use chromium based browser if possible, since it will indirectly support the monopoly position of the chromium engine
A dns blocklist? I use hagezi