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Firefox Android has a new stupid menu (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not one to usually diss new UI changes, but this one grinds my gears.

Firefox for Android has released a new menu design. It organizes everything a little differently, which is alright it looks fresh. But 2 things are really annoying and a continuous design trend in Firefox.

The option to open page in external app has been tucked away in a sub menu. I used this often and it was in the top level menu before. Companies just love hiding things in menus for no reason.
the option to open a private tab as a normal tab is GONE. This is how I use Firefox: someone sends me a link, I click on it and it opens in a private tab by default. If I need to sign in to see it (e.g. private Instagram links) then I open it in a normal tab. This option is now simply gone.

So yeah that's my rant. I'll see if I open a bug requesting the 2nd issue back.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Classic FF android bullshit.

Plenty of time to reorganise a menu that works just fine.

No resources to give us theming add-ons or even a basic OLED black theme. Let alone allow any other UI customisation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Reorganizing the menu takes maybe two collective working days until all discussions have been had. Impacts all users.

OLED black theme, probably takes about as long, with accessibility testing, and getting the settings entry translated into all the languages. Impacts the 1% of users, who bother looking through the settings and use a dark theme on an OLED screen.

Integration of theming add-ons takes more than a month, quite possibly more than two. And this is taking into account that they do already have a rough theming extension API (for desktop) in place. This is also a task that you can't give to the people who reorganize menus. Again, impacts maybe 1% of users.

I get that you don't feel like reorganizing the menu was necessary, but it's really not like you'd save the world in that same time...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or a fix for accidentally closing something when scrolling vertically through open tabs. This still happens to me daily. Going on a year now. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-disable-side-swipe-gesture-to-close-a-tab/idi-p/48053

Edit: Added link