topic New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it. in Discussions

New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:47:10 GMT

Recently got the newest update forced on my android device, and I'm learning that this new UI is being FORCED now???

I specifically disabled the new UI on android because it was clunky, bloated, cluttered, annoying to deal with, and just generally SLOWER in every regard. Everything was easily accessible before this new UI, and now not only are the menus scattered making it awful to navigate with just my thumb, it takes several clicks to get to the same options that only took one before. I was happy using the old UI and shouldn't be forced into the new one for no good reason.

PLEASE add a option to PERMANENTLY disable this new UI and revert to the old one, high chance that I will NOT be using Firefox on my android once I find a replacement unless said option is added.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BadBadger910 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:53:52 GMT

Agreed, thier UI is steadily getting worse, and has been for years.

Unfortunately it didn't look like they take feedback on it seriously. I have never seen these awful changes reverted.

I'm assuming all their UI designers use bottom bar and always have two hands on the phone.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:29:55 GMT

Honestly I've just downgraded to version 148 at this point. I cannot even fathom how any real human being sees this utter DISASTER of a UI as being "better" than what was already in place.

Genuinely hoping that the people behind the new UI get fired after seeing how many people dislike and leave, as if THAT'S the ideas they have? they shouldn't be allowed to work on anything.

If they don't implement a toggle for the old UI though, I guess it's time to go browser shopping again…

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

chesamo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:30:48 GMT

Agreed, I'm staying on 148.0.2 until a permanent solution is offered.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

mamta25 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:01:54 GMT

I’m dealing with the same problem. The old layout was simple and quick to use, but this new one feels messy and takes more steps to do basic things. It’s frustrating that we’re being forced to use it. It would be great if there was an option to switch back to the old UI.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:08:20 GMT

It's honestly insane, cause they DID have an option to disable it (presumably because they knew people would hate it,) and yet now forced it on everyone. It's genuinely mind boggling how they made such a terrible decision…

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

LiviK — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:42:21 GMT

Posting here to agree. I despise the new UI and had reverted the changes via the secret menu, but update 149 no longer has that option. The UI changes have made the 3 dot menu impossible to use one handed. Page back and forward require the use of both hands because it's on the opposite side of the screen from the menu open button. Open in app is now hidden below a button called 'more'. Previously history, bookmarks, passwords would all be within easy reach just under where you clicked to open the menu, and now all are at the bottom and hurt to reach frequently. Navigating the new UI is causing my hand and wrist to cramp. The whole menu takes up more screen space and is less functional than it was.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

HalNeinThousand — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:18:43 GMT

Reverted to 148 and detached from Google Play. Everything is impossible to do one handed now.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:49:26 GMT

Just keep complaining everywhere you can, and get as many people as you can in on the complaining. Eventually they're gonna have to acknowledge the amount of people that DO NOT WANT this new UI over the old one.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

firefoxer1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:15:05 GMT

I made an account just to +1 this. Whoever made the decision to force this garbage redesign down our throats should be fired.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Institor — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:33:08 GMT

En**bleep**tification continues.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Institor — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:42:15 GMT

There will be no permanent solution, as history with snowflakes at mozilla has shown us again and again. 😞

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

fm_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:30:35 GMT

I thought I could get used to the new tabs list after reverting out of the first update, but the more I use it the worse it gets. There's so much dead space it takes a million years to scroll, you can't escape the menu and the buttons are in the wrong place and mutate every three seconds like jellyfish. White borders distract you from the tab content, making it difficult to read through the list. Giant crosses encourage you to delete tabs, when I have them in a list because I want to visit them. Just terrible graphic design, completely unfit for purpose. Awful.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Miteiro — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:04:36 GMT

Restore the interface options on secret menu! Listen to the users!

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Tisaku — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:09:01 GMT

Yep. New layout is garbage. If there isn's a way to fix it I'm dropping firefox.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

justinkal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:44:19 GMT

The absolute worst part of this change for me is that after clicking the 3 dot menu at the top right corner of the screen, the Bookmarks button is now at the bottom of the screen instead of right next to the dots.

This massively increases the amount of finger movement needed to go from the new tab page to the list of bookmarks, which is by far my most common method of browsing.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

SR1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:16:08 GMT

Recent UI changes brought the app in line with Fisherprice standards: giant buttons for everything that cover the entire screen, blue notification dots telling you that you downloaded something. Really, I downloaded an image just now? I'm soo great full for the notification to tell me! As if I wasn't the one who initiated it less than five seconds ago. Quit treating your user base like we have the mental capacity of an infant. Bring back the old UI! Fire whoever thought this was a good idea!

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

dcam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:06:42 GMT

The inability to manage tabs one-handed on my large phone was PRECISELY the reason I switched from Chrome to Firefox in the first place. And now you all have gone and made the same foolish mistake. I'd expect this kind of behavior out of Google who insists on forcing whatever ill-advised changes they want on people, but I expected better from Mozilla. Apparently you all couldn't care less about your users either. I'm sick of this. I'm sick of app UI designers who change things for the sake of changing them. I'm sick of them not doing sufficient usability testing. This WILL be the reason I leave Firefox too. My search for another browser starts today. I only hope this kind of incompetence hasn't infected the entire ecosystem.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Xinnot — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:07:01 GMT

This new interface is awful, and the tab system has changed too. I think it's great to have new customization options in apps, but first there should be a choice between the old and the new.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Yahiroz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:28:22 GMT

I'm going to add on about the new tab tray too, I preferred the old one since it only showed on the bottom half of the screen, making one hand use easier. But now the new tab tray UI fills the entire screen, even though the tab previews are larger, I can't properly reach the top tabs with my thumb. I would prefer it if there was a one handed mode for the tab tray to limit it to the bottom half of the screen again like the previous version.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

rmdnfjrnf — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:56:39 GMT

Not being able to quickly refresh a page because the refresh button is now at the bottom of the screen was a terrible choice. All flash but no usability. The new UI is one of the worst I've seen. The new tabs layout is also garbage. Why are they fixing what isn't broken??

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:08:15 GMT

It HAS to have been some snowflake that went "people don't like my UI design and won't use it 🥺 I'll just force it on them until they like it!" But we won't like it, no matter how much they shove it down our throats.

As long as we keep being noisy about it, eventually they'll have to acknowledge people don't want this awful new UI. Just keep spreading the feedback site to everyone you can to get as many people complaining as possible until this is fixed.

If this thread, or any of the others complaining about it gets big enough for long enough they can't just ignore it, especially with the weekly recap on the biggest threads here.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

nellieblue — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:39:38 GMT

I agree with this 100% I also hate the new user interface. Everything is harder to access, no one likes it and everyone wants a way to permanently revert to old UI. I have got rid of this four times now and I do not like it it's on one of my mobiles and not the other which is also ridiculous. All this is in reference to the new user interface for Firefox mobile Android. As it is now if it stay this way you can plan on losing me and thousands of other users. You have made a friendly browser interface into and unfriendly one that is hard to use and most people absolutely hate!

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

hatenewmobileUI — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:48:37 GMT

Yeah I hate this **bleep** and it's going to make me switch browsers if I can't revert.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

thelocs — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:08:53 GMT

Mozilla will cease to exist soon, so they're forcing these pointless updates with aggressive concepts to drive people away. That's the point.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:27:26 GMT

fork Iceraven is great and have no telemetry and firefox with the crappy and unwanted bad ui redesign, no stinks i will not use it.

They say you will like it you will like it, i say go sit your but on a camp fire and you will like it you will like it.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:39:25 GMT

Sad days on the horizon, missing firefox ver.67 just like on p.c it was perfect, now is like a gta game on game boy advance, just the name push start and is bad not even a real game.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:47:44 GMT

I'm going to add what I said in response to another post

The previous iteration of the tab viewer in list view mode only took up part of the screen with the ability to swipe it down to dismiss it and be able to see part of the web page you were on. In my view that was *vastly* superior to what they replaced it with, which feels like a whole other app that's showing me what sites I have open.

I also want to add this to the conversation.

A friend of mine only has his right hand. He was thrilled that we found Firefox mobile a few years back when chrome got rid of the tabs list view. That on top of a few other things made Firefox his new browser instantly due to everything being accessible with his right hand. With this new update that's all gone. There's no options to get any of the things that made Firefox so simple and easy for him to navigate with his single hand. So now he's looking for something else to use. Some that will most likely not work for him as easily and seamlessly. I'm looking as well, for me it's because I can't stand the new UI in the least. It's yet another company that doesn't think about how some people use their app and just says "You'll use it this way now and be happy about it"

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

nellieblue — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:05:59 GMT

I just went through all the headaches reverting to the previous upgrade level, changed to recommended private DNS settings, disabled auto update in play store, which had been already done for all apps but reverted after deleting and reinstalling. Also had to shut off a bunch of studies that had been disabled until Firefox reinstalled then it turned them on and gave me a ton of studies without my permission ever being asked for, same with nimbus studies and had to turn all the related secret settings off again. Hopefully that will keep it gone as long as I do forget and accidentally update Firefox.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

keedr1n — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:29:23 GMT

I just made a post on the weekly recap about this too but this UI change is really unwelcome and if they dont re-enable the toggle that was already available in the secret settings to go back to the old view, I think i'll have to find a new browser to use on my phone.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

nellieblue — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:00:39 GMT

I understand entirely and even though I reverted to the previous one you gotta go through a lot of work to do all that and set up things to so it don't come back and then you have to remember not to accidentally upgrade Firefox and sooner or later the old level will become incompatible with too many other things I suppose so we'll still be up a Creek I'd like everyone else I want the old way back permanently This one is not productive at all a lot more clicking involved hard to find things you shouldn't have to do searches to find commonly used things with this thing messes them all up

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:54:49 GMT

They are now having 1 Star reviews on the Play Store either hidden, or completely deleted, as I have seen multiple reviews calling out the terrible UI change disappear for seemingly no reason.

Whichever snowflake forced this UI change on everyone is NOT happy that people are calling their UI awful. This doesn't change how many people are calling it out however. Keep complaining until they are FORCED to listen.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

nellieblue — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:12:17 GMT

That's not surprising considering Firefox/Mozilla gets a large amount of it's revenue from Google, Google Search,etc, ties to Google AI and chromnium..... At least that's what I read earlier today somewhere.... .

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

captnflinty — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:20:59 GMT

I will also be looking for a new browser if they don't add an option to toggle the tab UI changes off. I hate all the padding, it just wastes valuable screen real estate and makes it take forever to scroll through my tabs

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:24:50 GMT

So far I've tried Brave, Vivaldi, Duckduckgo and Opera GX.

DDG is the only one with a similar list view for tabs but I don't think you can switch search engines

Vivaldi and Brave have card grid views for their tabs, which I **bleep**ing *hate* but they have some other QoL stuff that's nice

Opera GX has a tab viewer that's a bit like cycling through a deck of cards. It's not terrible, just different then I've seen before. However it also only has what search engines are built in as far as I'm aware. It's has some neat bells and whistles though.

I'm still making up my mind, but these are the ones I'm cycling through at the moment, and I highly recommend others look into actually switching too so theres more people leaving Firefox behind and maybe they'll reconsider that abomination of an update.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:43:09 GMT

(Fennec v1.48.0) I reinstalled again, but is faster than Firefox beta for me, and search already comes populated and you can chose to hide YouTube or Reddit as an example. Opera didn't like the downloads some times work others don't start, Vivaldi is so bloated good no, the same Brave is just korki, bromite is just google with less telemetry, disappointed with Firefox, I have DDG in the background cuting telemetry system wide like a virtual network, but using DDG as browser hum no is not Firefox, so to me is sad days ahead.

Iceraven is secure with no telemetry and no bad forced ui enchancements, just hope dosent turn in to sheep like others forks and go baa ui redesign

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:27:58 GMT

Might use DDG then. Was thinking about Brave, but if DDG has a similar UI to the old one in FF I will probably use that instead.

Opera GX is just off the table for me, for numerous reasons.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:11:33 GMT

The fact that not ONE employee has replied to this, or any other thread calling out their terrible UI changes is absurd.

I'm giving them until the new version release on android, if a toggle is not given I WILL be switching browsers permanently. Not gonna use something made by dumbasses that won't ever listen to their users and just change things for no reason to meet whatever stupid quota they have to.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:21:51 GMT

In the begining they responded me saying, from ver.149 forward it will be the new ui and keep using it and you will like it, that's why i made that comment (you will like it you will like it) cant find the link any more (-_-)

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:26:19 GMT

Genuinely disgusting behavior if so. If true that also basically confirms that this forced change was done by a cry baby in the UI department that only forced it because they were upset people didn't wanna use their awful new UI.

Whoever designed it and decided that the old one should be removed needs to be fired and barred from any work in the industry ever again.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:36:47 GMT

The real problem is other forks are using mozila code with the bad ui changes , it is bad is like when they banned cool skins on android saying will leave fingrepint is security risk

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:37:49 GMT

Anytime I've been told by a compy, "use it until you get used to it" I jump ship. I do not *have* to get used to anything let alone a bad UI from devs who can't take a hint or tell me that "it's too hard" to have customization options. I've already been daily driving Brave since this started, the only reason I haven't deleted FF yet is because I need to get all my passwords written down that are saved there, then it's gone. From my phone, from my windows set up and from my Linux set up. I suggest everyone else who hates this change so the same, and then FF can get use to having less users

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:35:12 GMT

Give iceraven a try is a ff fork secure no telemetry and lots of adons and a normal ui.

To me if is not firefox is not a browser i will use, sad times ahead, Ai,Ram,ssd is all corporate greed,like a cartel, poluting like crazy with datacenters, no more planting corn to to put Mad Electricity Eaters making slop, search results with no real results, totally dumb results or there are none, humm this is bad, please leve the ui alone.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:14:55 GMT

Is iceraven available on Android somewhere?

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

JMAC1978 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:23:58 GMT

IceRavem Sure is is just install the apk from github updated 5 days ago. Have fun is possible to sync bookmarks and adons are ready to go no need tinkering.

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/releases

+++++++++++++++++++++++

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/variant-%7B%22minapi_slug%22%3A%22minapi-21%22%7D/

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:22:06 GMT

Dope. Thank you I'm going to check it out. Is the desktop version in the same git?

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

BlueSnivyian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:17:58 GMT

I'll have to check this out. If the old UI is not avaliable to use in the next update to Firefox I'll definitely have this as a consideration when switching browsers.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

SophieLaLi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:42:41 GMT

I have to agree here. One thumbed use just got worse a lot with the new tab manager. But is anyone from Mozilla actually reading these discussions here? Does feedback matter? I doubt it.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

RCaifan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:43:45 GMT

Everyone wants to please the aigod future, nice to have known you and see ya on the other side.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Antares — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:39:42 GMT

Chiming in to say that I am appalled by the changes made. The new menu and, to a slightly lesser extent, tabs overview are both atrocious. It boggles my mind that people looked at this and thought: "yep, we're gonna roll with that". It's just so much worse in every way. Onehanded use is way worse. Bar-on-top use is so much worse. So many less options are quickly visible and accessible. I've really tried for a week to get used to it, to not give a kneejerk reaction. But this UI is just genuinely awful.

It's basically a textbook example of form over function. Sacrificing usability on the altar of looks.

And when people found out about the option to disable the new design in the secret settings, you removed that option one version later. That just felt really mean-spirited and butthurt.

For now, I've disabled updates and gone back to v.148, with the secret setting to disable the new UI. Meanwhile, I'm trying out new browsers. I've yet to find one that is well-maintained for security and similar in usability to Firefox before the redesign ruined it. Specifically one where I can quickly access stuff onehandedly from the bottom right. But once I find one, I can well imagine saying goodbye to Firefox on mobile after many years of usage if you keep forcing this awful redesign on people.

Your designers really need to take a good hard look at themselves and ask tough questions to determine what the hell they had been thinking when designing this abomination.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Antares — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:55:34 GMT

Oh, and let me add that while the UI redesign is really bad on the phone, it is absolutely awful on a tablet. On the phone I now have to uncomfortably stretch the thumb to at least reach some options with only one hand in use. On the tablet, that's naturally entirely impossible - I'm no alien with 10cm long thumbs.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

87hedge — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:31:05 GMT

I registered just to voice my dislike of this UI. I tried, but it's just plain bad. It's worse to use, it's slower with pointless animations, and it consumes needless space. I have nothing good to say about it.

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:04:19 GMT

My suggestion to have what we've been asking for for the UI and tab tray viewer was accepted in the suggestions. Everyone who dislikes the new changes should go up vote and comment on the post

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/give-us-the-option-to-use-the-redesigned-3-dot-menu-and-tab/idc-p/121791#M63262

Re: New UI on Android is awful, PLEASE give us an option to PERMANENTLY revert it.

Crusader_Nejaa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:51 GMT

To anyone who hasn't, please fo like and comment on the suggestion page that is open for comment on giving us the option to revert this change

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/give-us-the-option-to-use-the-redesigned-3-dot-menu-and-tab/idc-p/121791#M63262