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i don't mind it, i think it looks good - BUT i just want a tablet ui with a tab bar T_T
For whatever it's worth, you can enable a movable tab bar in Firefox Nightly for Android.
This will force the tab and omnibar to the top of the screen, however.
Don't forget this too
Woah I was literally just commenting that I miss that expanded toolbar layout. Unfortunately that option isn't visible yet in my Nightly, but this indicates that it might not be gone forever, awesome!
Edit: Just enabled Secret Settings and now I have back my beloved toolbar! It's a bit chunkier than it used to be, but still neat.
Edit 2: ah, and no back/forward buttons, that's a shame. I'd prefer those over the bookmark button.
Yep, bookmark feels like something no one needs with any regularity.
In the Secret Settings it was named something like "Composable toolbar", so perhaps we'll get the ability to customise the contents later.
It's just because it's the toolbar rewritten in Jetpack Compose rather than the old one which was written with XML and used a custom parser.
Ah! That makes sense
Neat! seems I need to update!
There's also some new secret settings for the new toolbar.
Ah! That may be why I don't see it 😓
I want to import/export bookmarks to HTML and view page source/inspect element in addition to that
You can add
view-source:before the URI to view the source.Oh, that's nice. Thanks!
There is also an extension for this
Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.
Nightly has multiple app icon too. It's gimmicky but here.
hm, interesting; i assume fennec is based on release android firefox? i wish nightly had an f-droid release :/ i know i can download the apk but
If the part you dislike is having to manually download updates, then this might be a solution: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater
ooh awesome i'll look. yeah i didn't mind doing the apks for beta or focus but nightly is updated (well duh :P) every night so i just didn't want to keep remembering.
It's good but slow. Though I may just be unreasonable.
FFUpdater can keep it updated for you. Sort of a browser-specific app store.
i just tried and it works great; i had accrescent for ironfox but i like this because i can also get rid of the play store for vivaldi.
It's already not only in Nightly, but Beta too, so probably soon in release.