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Anyone know how to revert the horrendous new #Firefox #Android menu design?

It is slow, clumsy and it is even harder to reach extension icons than before.

And extensions. Are. The. Only. Reason. To. Use. Firefox. (Apart from Privacy, if you harden it a lot).

I couldnt find an about:config to revert the menu redesign. #Ironfox showed a menu for that for some time.

#FirefoxAndroid @firefoxnightly @firefox@lemmy.world @firefoxwebdevs @firefox@lemmy.ml @firefox@fedia.io

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

So much better. I like it a a lot.

Of course Firefox on mobile is rarely used, that's what firefox focus is for.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like it very much, morebthan before actually.

And extensions are right there, one tap from the main menu... So what are you bitching about?

For once, a positive UI change IMHO.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It takes an extra click to get to ublock origin which is why I dislike it.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I can't remeber the last time I needed to interact with uBlock extension. Particularly on mobile, what are you doing with it?

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I use ublock in hard mode, so it requires interaction most of the time on new sites.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What are you trying to do?

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Have you used hard mode before? You have to manually unblock site elements a lot of the time but it's very secure for sites that you visit on a whim

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I use Firefox Focus for that. No extensions, ad block by default, drops all cookies on close. Basically a stateless browser for every site / session.

What you are doing seems to remind me of using no script.

Unless your goal is to get to data elements as the site is trying to do stupid things like covering text you want to read, which I can understand.

But it sure seems like it would be a pain on mobile.

Nice Cascadia flag you got there, I totally support you guys splitting off and enjoying your own geo region.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, IronFox has it built in too, but I'm a little particular about blocking everything. You're correct that it's like running noscript, in fact, it's the recommended replacement for noscript.

Nice Cascadia flag you got there, I totally support you guys splitting off and enjoying your own geo region.

Thanks :) One can dream.

[–] Labna@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago


This menu ?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually like it. Cleaner and easier to use on mobile. Great job 👍.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Only thing I give it is that it doesnt discriminate against left handed people. It is bigger and more cumbersome to reach an addon

[–] lecroix74@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@Rhababerbarbar @firefoxnightly @firefox@lemmy.world @firefoxwebdevs @firefox@fedia.io really? It is right there on the very first click. Couldn't possibly be easier. But hey, let's hate firefox for everything. I am sure they are to blame for global warming too

[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 4 points 1 day ago

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It is slower. Of course I know where they are, but it takes an extra click, the drawer has animations (doesnt respect the system disabling them), and not all extensions are shown and the order cannot be changed.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Na, the new menu still sucks. Wish there was a way to revert it.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

i haven't looked at it until now and I'm in absolute disagreement with you. This is magnates better.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago

Might be some way to fiddle with it via userChrome.css. I couldn't tell you how, but it'd be a place to start looking.

I think I slightly preferred the older UI, but I'm kind of surprised that people care so much either for or against in the comments here. It seems like a pretty minor change to me.