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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] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think it's you who is at fault here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a means built-in to shower usage. If my network blocks that and they think no one is using the feature. That's on me. As a Nightly user, I should support the product with bug reports and also things like letting them know which features I use and how often.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm blocking that too, it's even disabled in the settings. in my opinion they shouldn't be doing this in a privacy oriented browser in an opt-out manner. look at where they host the data: GCP and AWS. that's maybe fine for firefox sync data because it's encrypted (probably only on a per-record level though, so it may still be useful to measure activity), but for usage data, no thanks

As a Nightly user

that makes some difference, but they shouldn't count the needs of nightly users as the needs of release users. totally different userbase, to begin with

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

But your definition of privacy is different to theirs. You see all Telemetry as bad. They say that the world isn't so binary and that there's good telemetry and bad telemetry. Also they have data to prove that opt in doesn't work. They shouldn't kneecap an entire project just to keep a handful of privacy zealots happy. Of which I fall into that category given my DNS level blocks.

As for Nightly users, they're still users.