Firefox Android has a new stupid menu
Firefox Android has a new stupid menu
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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I like the new menu, I don't mind the organisation of things, but the lack of priority to opening things as a normal tab is frustrating. As far as the developers are concerned, it was only a Nightly feature and not very many people used it, so no need to ensure it's available presently. That said, I'm not sure that's a criticism of the new menu, which I reiterate, overall is massively positive and makes Firefox feel a lot more modern and a better fit for modern Android.
You can follow along with the progress of open in regular tab here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1923716
I'm so glad to know I'm not alone in my frustration. I totally forgot I was using nightly. Thanks for the link!
From the hug link: Seems like it was only assigned to a dev a week ago. And with all the conditions for it to acrually land in the final menu, the chances look tepid at best...
I've switched back to the old menu until they fix the bug. I use open in normal tab tens of times a day.
Honestly, I'm kinda at fault here. Both my NextDNS and Pi-Hole block Telemetry, so they're not getting usage numbers to support prioritising the feature.
You can disable this?
Edit: found it. I disabled the experiment. Thank you so much!