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What do you think about the new menu of Firefox Android? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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IMHO it's definetly a hard break with the past design.
But it looks more mature and not as 'shy'.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

i don't mind it, i think it looks good - BUT i just want a tablet ui with a tab bar T_T

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget this too

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, bookmark feels like something no one needs with any regularity.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the Secret Settings it was named something like "Composable toolbar", so perhaps we'll get the ability to customise the contents later.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Ah! That makes sense

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neat! seems I need to update!

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's also some new secret settings for the new toolbar.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ah! That may be why I don't see it 😓

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I want to import/export bookmarks to HTML and view page source/inspect element in addition to that

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can add view-source: before the URI to view the source.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's nice. Thanks!

[–] nethad@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

There is also an extension for this

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.

Screenshot of Firefox Nightly for Android, showing a tab bar.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Nightly has multiple app icon too. It's gimmicky but here.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 10 months ago

It's good but slow. Though I may just be unreasonable.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FFUpdater can keep it updated for you. Sort of a browser-specific app store.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

It's already not only in Nightly, but Beta too, so probably soon in release.