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Updates to Android Navigation (connect.mozilla.org)

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

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

Exciting changes

Oh no

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

I love corporate marketing talk

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

What happens when you have the main navigation bar at the bottom? Where does the second bar go? I hope they didn't just remove that feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Same. Bottom bar is best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

It stacks

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

Ugh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well it's ugly but at least it doesn't take away functionality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the info. I'm very relieved, I love the bottom bar!

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

I looked for a toggle very hard but there isn't any, sadge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Look harder, I believe it's in developer settings.

But is IS nightly, this sort of thing is to be expected right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Honestlly, I'm ambivalent on the navigation bar change. It is quite tall but sometimes helpful.

As for the url bar, thank GOD they put the full URL back. I think this all "better against phishing" is BS and most users aren't looking anyhow. If you need to at all differentiate it, but the domain in bold and let the rest of the url be in normal font. But for the love of cake don't have ONLY the domain. I can't even explain how frustrating that is. Please keep the full URL mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is an okay starting point, but hopefully they make it optional and configurable.

They could learn from Vivaldi.

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

Less screen real estate for the website and we get... Let's see... A back button that is already handled by the system? A new tab button that saves an entire click?

Sure hope there will be an option to keep the current design...

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

Though if they're smart about this, they'll remove that the back gesture goes back a webpage, and instead make it go back a screen (say back into settings or home or out of the app), so it's consistent with other apps.

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

Consistent with other apps is going one step back like it is handled now. I don't know apps acting in another way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This design sucks so much that I switched to fennec over on f-droid....

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

I'm pretty sure that's just Firefox for Android, but without some of the proprietary and telemetry stuff So you'll get it around when the stable version of Firefox does