IMHO it’s definetly a hard break with the past design.
But it looks more mature and not as ‘shy’.
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.
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.
I still have that, but with the tab bar.
Edit:
Ah neat, is that on a tablet? Maybe it’s decided that my screen is too small.
Phone acting as tablet. Settings “smallest width” to 600dp or more triggers tablet mode on Android, which changes certain UI elements to, in my opinion, make more sense on average near 7" smartphones. At least for me as I am a landscape-first user.
So, since I already screwed up my homescreen layout by toggling this now, I’ll give you screenshots to compare between 423 (smallest in regular settings) and 705dp (what I use). 423 on left, 705 on right.
Took me longer than I anticipated, but anyway:
Sorry for the JPEG, original was 18MB.
Notice the difference in keyboard layout, and 3 button navigation with app icons and app drawer.
You should be able to click the image to open it, at least on LemmyUI.
I appreciate the effort! (Indeed looks like that wasn’t quick to put together.) And yes, that looks like you get a bunch more controls on your wider phone.
you can still open a tab with two taps
I completely forgot there was a new tab entry in that menu
In latest Nightly there is a + sign right of the address field. So, it is only 1 tap now.
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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.
Firefox mobile UX sucks.
Try select multiple bookmarks and then move them. Cant.
Save a bookmark and get a lingering notification that doesnt swipe away.
Download a file? Same.
This menu changes nothing except for some reason taking away the new tab menu option.
I dont mind a larger menu but what was chosen as huge and small makes little sense.
Agree 100%.
I still can’t figure out how to add a shortcut to the new tab page lmao
Wish they just get the ui back to how it was like in the kitkat days
Chrome keeps my most used sites as suggestions. Firefox has massive tiles for most recent bookmarks. It is painfully inadequate at the simple things, it is only decent as a somewhat more private alternative to the big tech cancers.
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).
They half assedly implemented it without porting over all features, which is annoying but definitely the Mozilla way.
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And Beta.
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
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).
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.
Not going to lie, I do not like it.
I prefer menus over panels.
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.
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”?
That’s right. These are missing because I opened it from the home screen. Here is a better screenshot:
I think I like the current one better from a usability perspective because it opens where I can access the whole thing with my thumb without having to stretch. Looks like that might not be the case here but we’ll see I suppose
I don’t hate it, but I would REALLY like to be able to move those buttons around. Refresh, share, and forward are hands-down my most used buttons. Having to chase them up feels tedious.
Similarly sign in (or, I’m guessing account once you do sign in) does not need that much real estate.
Finally I’d love to swap Passwords with a shortcut to my password manager of choice (in my case, Bitwarden)
I appreciate the more modern take, but I think it could use some refinement or customization options, similar to dragging things around your toolbar in FF desktop.
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.
Absolutely, never really got how its existence was justified from the beginning but especially after tabbed browsing became a thing
Home button? Where? I don’t see one.
Do you mean the navigation bar at the bottom? That can be changed in OS settings.
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.
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.
Absolutely, I think the reload, back and forward button should move to the bottom
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…
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.
