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Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

xUxSxExR — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:12:49 GMT

Its very weird. Both are pretty much the same browser, while mobile seeming totally underpowered, Desktop a bit too much.

Mobile

Links

No "save link as bookmark"
No Addon context menu entries (Ublock, Noscript, more)

Tabs

Nothing with containers of course
No Addon entries (Singlefile)

Desktop

way too many context menu entries, the entire reason this project exists.

It seems Firefox tries to please everyones workflow by allowing to do the same action in 2-4 different places. This is weird and clutters the UI extremely. Also Developer tools are integrated, that should be opt-in, as Firefox should be a user browser.

Links

Inspect
new Window actions (not everyone uses multiple windows)
Private window (makes no sense as the threat is websites not local attacks 90% of the time)
Pocket (okay this will probably stay...)
Inspect

Tabs

Reopen closed tab: the Addon is way better at using this functionality, more intuitive
close tab? You got the "x" for that
Close multiple tabs? Really nieche
Bookmark tab? You got the star for that

Images

Email Image
Inspect

Blank page

Pocket
Select all?
inspect
view source? not for everyone
another way to create a bookmark, all buttons again implemented, why?

unified searchbar

options are common keyboard bindings and should be opt-out, apart from things like "Paste and go" or "Redo" that are untypical

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I am sure I forgot something, especially more context options for mobile, for images and more.

Mobile is underpowered but actually has a good approach, it just is not customizable enough but forces this minimalism and one-way-to-do on everyone.

Desktop is cluttered, has no GUI (or even officially documentation) way of changing context entries and seems like a total mess.

Less is often more. If you remove all that bloat you can actually add some buttons, like the home button, the "temporary container button" or the "redo closed tab" button (Addons).

What do you think?

Re: Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

Jon — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:34:43 GMT

Some other ideas for improving the context menus:

Re: Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

BEEDELLROKEJULI — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:12:19 GMT

I'm not gonna vote for this suggestion because it includes too many disparate suggestions, some of which I disagree with, some of which I agree with.

Re: Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

xUxSxExR — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:54:34 GMT

what do you agree with and want dont?

Re: Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

BEEDELLROKEJULI — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:50:16 GMT

@xUxSxExR, I disagree with Firefox Deskop requiring less entries, but agree that Fenix needs more.

Disagree

It seems Firefox tries to please everyones workflow by allowing to do the same action in 2-4 different places. This is weird and clutters the UI extremely.

Agree

No Addon context menu entries (Ublock, Noscript, more)
No "save link as bookmark"
Inspect [Element Support]

Re: Firefox mobile needs more context menu entries, Desktop needs less

BEEDELLROKEJULI — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:55:55 GMT

Apologies about that post being barely intelligible... This hideous site has butchered the formatting. If it were Markdown I would have provided a comprehensive list with my rationale for each, but I don't particularly want to use this site any more than need be.