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Firefox UX: On Purpose: Collectively Defining Our Team’s Mission Statement (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Please share your thoughts on mobile Firefox as that's my primary browser. My issues are

lack of tab grouping
tabs are too easy to swipe away
you can swipe tabs away when in OS overview mode
no mechanism to close duplicate tabs
lack of Material Design 3 (Material You)
inability to disable password management
everything about Places, it feels like history is always the lowest priority and the reality is that I want history as the top priority, synchronized tabs second and search engine suggestions last
lack of pinned tabs in the tabs tray
getting to picture in picture is stupid
now, the iOS-ification of the design
edit: forgot but terrible share sheet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

open tabs can take 20+s to load a cached version, when a full refresh takes 1-2s
when you open FF, you spin a wheel for what screen will be shown
limited extension selection
pages are randomly zoomed in
closed tabs reopen after you relaunch FF (I've had situations where I'd close the same exact tab 20+ times)
tab sync is janky as hell (doesn't show all open tabs, sometimes you need to send the same tab 5 times before you get notifications for all of them at the same time)
it sometimes saves your position on the pages, but sometimes not

That's what I can think off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

when you open FF, you spin a wheel for what screen will be shown

Not sure if it's helpful, but you know there's an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage

Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you. But your last item reminded me of this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872511

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not sure if it’s helpful, but you know there’s an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage

Thanks, but I'm pretty sure it's bugged. I've had FF open, receive a call, go back to FF, see the homepage instead of the last tab.

Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you.

I really need to get a new phone, 2gb of RAM is not enough, but I'm having a really hard time finding a pixel in my country.

But your last item reminded me of this bug

I think that's for tab selection. I forgot to list that as well, I've got 100+ tabs open and it occasionally jumps to showing the first instead of the last one.

What I meant is: you read an article, and when you're halfway through you close FF. When you open it, it might continue from where you left off, or it might show you the top of the page.