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Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by b3orn »

Bombthecat wrote: post #138
godelski wrote: post #129

To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktop…

Tried to Google it, what is mobile supports unblock?

Maybe he/she meant "ublock"?

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by esalman »

kumarharsh wrote: post #137

Wow, this preview is incredibly good! I was not expecting such a good quality from a preview app (given how bad some of the other tries from Firefox have been on Android). And you know what absolutely clinches it for me? That you moved the address bar to the bottom!! Just like Edge on Windows mobile - that's the best position for address bar IMO. I also hope you do something about better battery management on the and…

Agree about the address bar positioning, last time I used a browser that had this feature was dolphin browser, at least 5 years ago.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by lucideer »

m-p-3 wrote: post #125

Not fond of the bottom address bar, I guess I'm not used to it because I always tap the top-right corner to switch tabs... I just need to get it in my muscle-memory, not a big deal. I still cross my fingers this will be configurable at some point. My main gripe is that I feel like bookmarks are now a second-class citizen in Firefox Preview, they're not as accessible. I could see my mobile bookmarks right on the new t…

Funnily enough, top-address-bar has been one of my two biggest UX gripes about Android FF. Especially since iOS FF has the bottom adddress bar (which seems like a UI decision independent of their reliance on Safari's engine), and is so much nicer to use.

With you on the bookmarks though. Especially since they're putting this new "Collections" feature front-and-centre but it seems to have no integration with Your Library. The whole "Tab Groups", etc. paradigm has been tried time and time again: the reason it never sticks isn't because it's a bad idea, it's because it's never integrated with idiomatic browser features.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by m-p-3 »

Causality1 wrote: post #83

Now if they could just fix Firefox Mobile's abysmal tab management. Chrome Mobile's tab screen is a stack of pages in the Z-axis with the one closest to the user being the most recent tab and so on. Firefox Mobile's is a grid with the number of rows and columns being variable depending on screen dimensions. Figuring out which ones you opened in what order is not immediately apparent. It also suffers from the frankly…

I hope they'll add some navigation gestures, I really miss the ability to swipe the address bar to switch tabs..

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by m-p-3 »

Ultramanoid wrote: post #60
Touche wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The target of a preview is not people expecting it to be feature complete, so no, you're not the target.

Tell me how am I supposed to test add-ons on this Firefox as a developer before the release then. Edit : And again, most of my work if not all related to Firefox, I do on the Nightly build. I expect things to break, but this preview ( of which there have been builds for a while already ) is a non-starter.

It's not like other previewers can run add-ons anyway, it will come in time.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by m-p-3 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #69
steve19 wrote: post #25

Still no pull to refresh. They really don't want users to adopt their browser. Literally every single other mobile Web browser supports it. Yet Mozilla has some ideological stance that it breaks web interaction (with what, the 0.0001% of browser that target Firefox above Safari or Chrome on mobile).

Pull to refresh is why I want to move away from Chrome. It keeps going off as I scroll down a page, changing my page position or losing content. Unfortunately it cannot be disabled. The flag to disable it was removed. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/8152831?hl=en

I want that, but they should add a flag for it.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by Jnr »

godelski wrote: post #129

To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktop…

I wish iOS version had addons to block ads. (I know Apple doesn't allow that) I still use it because of the synchronization and because Firefox is awesome. :)

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by Topgamer7 »

godelski wrote: post #129

To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktop…

I moved to firefox on mobile explicitly because the context menu has options I use. Google Chrome dropped almost all the options, and annoyed me to know end. IMO Mozilla is the only option to keep the web free. Google won't even remotely have your interests even in mind for the changes they make.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by victor9000 »

godelski wrote: post #129

To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktop…

Then go to any news site and show them reader mode. It's an irresistible one-two punch.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by readams »

Jnr wrote: post #147
godelski wrote: post #129

To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktop…

I wish iOS version had addons to block ads. (I know Apple doesn't allow that) I still use it because of the synchronization and because Firefox is awesome. :)

iOS Firefox is not really Firefox. It's a Safari skin, because Apple doesn't like competition.
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