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.

  • Carighan Maconar
    23•1 day ago

    Yeah but everyone turns them off or blocks them, then wonders why seemingly Mozilla never considers their use case. You made it invisible to see that use case, what did you expect? 😂

    • @[email protected]English
      -8•1 day ago

      Companies can have my data when they prove they have stopped repeatedly misusing it.

      Until then they can fuck off.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•17 hours ago

          Well, 1. They’ve been accused such, if that’s what you’re asking,

          1. Everyone else has, so now all analytics and metrics get disabled, regardless of who its for.