I was a bit quick thinking my issue had fully been resolved. As Dwayne commented it is a bit hit and miss with some auctions/classifies having it and others not.  A work around may be to add the item to watchlist as that always works for me....but a pain.  Clearly TM developers and UI testers only use iPhones.    

Either a coincidence or someone got the message......TM almost back to normal service on my phone now....although one of my saved searches ifs still not showing photos nearly all the rest are. Dwayne - thanks for the confirmation that I was not going mad(er).

Thx all - FF version almost current 131.0.2 and I do have my setting moderately hardened.  The create post or respond to post box that I am using now in Chrome never appeared in FF. Now that I know I will fire up Chrome for the few times I need to respond. I tend to live in FF as I find it easier to manage my security.  The create post button is visible, but so is the message asking me to sign in (and I am signed into TM) to leave a comment. So I suspect that some of the Mozilla features I have enabled that support  better security/privacy fall foul of TM.  I have had this on some other sit...