It moved the back/forward arrows to the top of the screen where I can barely reach. Why ?
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yeah back/forward refresh & share should be at the bottom of this menu
I like it. :-) It always amazes me, that so many people who like free and open software, are so negative about changes. If you really want things your way, then support the software, ad your skills, pay for it, so that the best people can work on it. A little more gratitude for peoples free work, to provide you with great and free software, would be in order.
I hate it. It used to be two taps to open a new tab.
Now it's four taps:
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Open the menu
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Close the menu
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Open tabs
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My muscle memory ain't going nowhere.
In defense of Mozilla on this one, the new tab button has been in tabs for years now, and it kinda makes sense to be there.
If they're trying to streamline menus, getting rid of a redundant button is a good start.
You can long press the tab icon to open a new tab. Still 2 taps.
Or tap the tab icon and then the plus icon in the bottom right.
Although I did mainly use the menu method. Will just have to change now.
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I miss the toolbar that was experimented with for a while in Nightly that had both the new tab button and the forward button visible at all times. But apparently other people hated it.
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you can still open a tab with two taps
I completely forgot there was a new tab entry in that menu
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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.
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I want to import/export bookmarks to HTML and view page source/inspect element in addition to that
Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.
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They half assedly implemented it without porting over all features, which is annoying but definitely the Mozilla way.
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I just changed it back right when I figured out how.
This is my day 2 of trying Firefox on Android (coming from Opera), so it's not like I was already used to it.
About Firefox Nightly -> Tap the FF logo a few times -> Secret settings -> Enable menu redesign off
Thank you. I don't hate the big buttons, but they put the most important ones on the top out of reach frommy thumb. Dumbest decision ever.
If you are not interested in testing the new features why are you using nightly version?
Release doesn't even have tab bar yet.
Beta does, but only has the new menu and homepage doesn't count as tab like on desktop and doesn't support DoH, like on desktop.
Nightly is most feature-complete.
But I'll have to figure out how to check existing and report new bugs. Search may not work when I hit enter, opening links with Firefox just opens the homepage, only when I click back does it actually open the link, screenshots sometimes don't work, but only after I go to tab menu and then back, and the bottom-most thing in homepage is cut-off, so I use the stories as padding (might be related to custom high system-wide DPI).
Sorry to those who made this but I absolutely hate it. The previous UI wasn't the best but at least it was much more compact than this. Literally ads no meaningful feature while increasing taps needed for features and waste screen space.
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Not going to lie, I do not like it.
I prefer menus over panels.
Avid nightly user; I'm just starting to get used to it, and I think I it's better for most users, but I need to regular use the translate feature which doesn't automatically translate the languages that I need. So that's a few extra taps for me, and honestly it adds up.
It was mentioned her that their should be some kind of customization, and I would be happy to lose a little bit more of the background to have the translate button on the main menu
Customization would definetly help with such use cases, e.g. letting users replace lesser used buttons like Share or Home with Translation or Addons Menu.
I like the concept. It'd be nice to customise it a bit but I prefer it as more legible / bigger, plus in a decent location for my thumbs.
The old menu was unnecessarily cramped and to one side. This change has potential but isn't quite right yet.
It also does make much more sense if you move the tab bar to the bottom to complement it (doable.in settings menu).
Assuming that's the menu that is accessed from the tab bar, my first thought is that it doesn't have everything the current one has. Where are "find in page" and "desktop site"?
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I like it when buttons can be reached entirely by my thumb without overstretching it. Feel like anything that isn't that is a design failure.
I just wish they'd make it customizable to replace the home button with extension menu, new tab or remove it completely. That home button has been useless for me.
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I like it. It's better en easier to use than the old one.
Note that I'm using it for multiple months at this point.
The only button i use on a regular basis is the reload page. It moved and i need to re-learn the muscle memory but that's fine. Also i will most likely be using firefox on samsung's android XR headset and this panel will work a lot better for that.
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I have my navigation bar on the bottom, the new menu has the important navigation button on top regardless of this setting. So it means I have to press menu and the move my finger all the way up the screen anytime I want to go backward, forward, share, refresh, ...
Don't mind it, just taking a little bit getting used to because it's such a big change. My muscle memory for certain things need to be tweaked. But it looks slick, and as far as I can tell the same functionality is there.
Looks more touch focused and friendly. Not necessarily bad on a mobile device. This might be rare occasion I don't mind a rsadical change done by Mozilla. Haven't actually tried it yet, just looking at the photo...
I don't mind.
I like it, that being said I still want a quicker way to access my extensions.
I like it, it looks more modern, I haven't given a proper though about the layout, but honestly seeing UI changes is good, I have been using FF as my main since a while now and I don't think it hasn't changed a bit, for example I'd like that it adopted material you UI (yes I like it), but what I would like the most is that it begins to support tab grouping just like the desktop browser... But hey, baby steps.
i do love it though i miss so much the feel of lollypop/jellybean era firefox android pre app refresh
how did you get this?
i have my android set to automatic update and i see no upgrades advertised when i check.
It's currently on the Nightly version
Looks good, I always found the current menu pretty busy. Wish it didn't move the action buttons to the top and switch Refresh and Share though.
It's fine
I'm not a fan. It's probably friendlier to an average user, but I feel like the information and actionable item density is much lower than before.
@mustbe3to20signs Interesting. I'll have to play with it a bit before I decide, but I'm not 100% in love with it right now.
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