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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] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I will say, this FINALLY fixes my main gripe.

The "new tab" page used to be in the history of the back button, and when you're on it, there is no forward button.

So when you hit back one too many times, you couldn't go forward. Now you're last back ends on the first non-start page, which is way better.

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

The new menu does get a few things right.