Android @lemmy.ml Dessalines @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

Enable Firefox's revamped tablet interface on Android

archive.is /blyOI

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This was my only issue with Firefox on Android and I'm so glad to see it addressed. Honestly kinda expected it'd be years before they look into this.
- Yup, especially since tabs were an original mozilla invention, and android is by far the most popular OS in the world.
  
  I thought tabs started with the Opera browser?
Not gonna bother setting up Nightly (switching browsers is a pain), but I hope this carries over to Samsung DeX's desktop mode, one of the updates a few months ago made the font way too large in DeX mode, making it almost unusable in that mode.
Archive.is doesn't load for me, could you post the original link?
- Need Firefox nightly:
  
  Go to Settings
  
  About Firefox Nightly
  
  Tap the icon 5 times to unlock debug mode
  
  Go back
  
  Under the about section you'll see Secret Settings
  
  Turn Enable Tab Strip on
  
  That setting does not exist for me
  
  125.0a1 2016006983
- archive.is has mirror domains, like https://archive.ph/blyOI you're welcome
  
  Also, the source here: https://www.androidpolice.com/mozilla-firefox-android-tablet-tab-bar-nightly/
  
  Archive is/ph/today etc. is playing dirty with DNS and actively lying to Cloudflare and some others too I believe. They all do not work.
  
  I had to hard-code their IP address in my hosts file.
Can't wait to switch back to Firefox. I'll stick to Vivaldi until a stable release
Are tablets still popular?
- Android tablets are booming rn. I've coded lemmy with one for several years now.
  
  what's your setup for this out of interest? are you running a Dev environment under tmux or something? 🤔
- Yeah I basically run on my Samsung Tab S8 plus. Much lighter than a laptop and has everything I need. Also Samsung Dex is great if you've never used it. I also have a laptop with Arch Linux but I do most of my work on my tablet. For reference I'm a doctor and I use my personal devices for scholarly work. I use Google docs and refworks as my citation manager.
- Also with the foldable phones becoming more main stream

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