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[Solved] Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

seseiSeki — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:35:48 GMT

Platform: Android

App: Firefox Beta

Version: Version 144.0b9
org.mozilla.firefox_beta

Since today, 2025-10-04, Firefox Beta always opens the Playstore when launching, making it very slow and annoying to use.

Steps to reproduce:

Close Firefox Beta (or wait for it to be killed by the system)
Launch Firefox Beta
The Playstore opens

I hope this can be fixed soon. Thank you for your time.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

asdf_cesar — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:19:10 GMT

Same issue on Firefox Nightly.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

seseiSeki — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:15:18 GMT

For some reason, this does not happen to me on Nightly.

Tested with: Version 145.0a1
org.mozilla.fenix

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

asdf_cesar — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:20:07 GMT

For me, it started yesterday when Firefox Nightly needed an update. I updated it, and it hasn't stopped opening every time I open the app since then.

Maybe it's not checking correctly if I already updated. Maybe it doesn't happen to you because you didn't have Firefox Nightly, and so it didn't need to redirect you to Google Play to offer you the update.

If this is the case, reinstalling Firefox Beta should also solve the issue there.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

NickL13 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:46:05 GMT

Just started getting these issues on Firefox Beta yesterday too. Uninstalled and reinstalled and bug's still there. Deleted cache still there. I switched to Nightly and started getting the issue as well. On Android 16

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

seseiSeki — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:57:57 GMT

I also already had Nightly installed. Firefox never prompted me to update though. And I don't want to try reinstalling Beta for a chance of it working, because collections are still not included in the backup. (Which heavily discourages using them, but I digress)

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

Lyonnel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:34:58 GMT

Same issue on Nightly Firefox for 1 or 2 days. The first time it launched Google Play, there was a update. I did it and,since, it does launch it each time.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

asdf_cesar — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:06:17 GMT

I discovered that Google Play does NOT launch when you click a link and open a tab directly.

It simply launches when you click the URL bar or try to create another tab (which happens by default when you open the app without having clicked a link).

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

Lyonnel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:15:29 GMT

I noticed it doesn't launch Google Play if not set as the default browser.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

Mahboison — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:38:43 GMT

Same issue here, on Nightly 145.0a1

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

asdf_cesar — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:54:19 GMT

Issue SOLVED after updating Firefox Nightly to 145.0a1 from Play Store. This update wasn't available to me until today.

Re: Firefox Beta opens Playstore on launch

seseiSeki — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:33:52 GMT

It stopped happening to me just today, 2025-10-07, with Beta: Version 144.0b10
org.mozilla.firefox_beta