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Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:20:43 GMT

Hello, Mozilla community!

I’m Daniela Arcese and I am the product manager of Firefox for iOS. I would love to chat with you about how we can help make Firefox mobile your most personal browser.

How can we use colour to make the mobile browser feel more personal and engaging for you?

Some ideas:

What areas of Firefox mobile would you like to be able to customize?
Do you have a favourite mobile app that lets you add colour? How does it improve your experience?
Do you use Firefox desktop themes? What prompts you to change your theme?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:41:49 GMT

I am satisfied with current Firefox for iOS. It has its technical limitations, so please don't waste resources on it.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

s1fly — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:38:09 GMT

Although I am an iOS user, I appreciate the work Google has done with Material You on Android, especially how the UI takes colour cues from the wallpaper.

I appreciate that iOS doesn't have that level of customisation, but if Firefox iOS could have more wallpaper options so UI elements to take on colour cues, that could be really nice. In fact it would be interesting for Firefox to team up with artists to offer wallpapers celebrating some of the Mozilla healthy internet manifesto and other values. There's something quite powerful in communicating through art and if the UI follows suit then it becomes a personal message "This is my Firefox and this is what I believe the internet should look like" or something to that effect.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:05:48 GMT

Thanks for the feedback!
If you are willing to share, I am curious to hear more about your Firefox wallpaper usage. Do you remember how you discovered the feature? Did you pick one wallpaper and stick with it or do you like to discover new ones?

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

s1fly — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:51:03 GMT

Sure! I think I discovered Firefox wallpaper either from the release notes or the App Store. I did pick one wallpaper as the colour scheme resonated with me and although I've checked for new ones time to time, I haven't replaced my original choice. It would be nice to find seasonal alternatives or similar.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

Pandora — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:00:14 GMT

What I would like of we could add custom wallpapers to Firefox (Both Android and iOS), would be nice.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:07:27 GMT

Thank you for your idea! The team will definitely consider this as we improve our wallpaper feature.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

s1fly — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:14:39 GMT

@darceseI don't know if you saw this, but the other day the Thunderbird team showed off some wonderful wallpapers on Twitter, using the Midjourney AI. Looks like they've written a blog post about it:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/08/we-asked-ai-to-create-these-beautiful-thunderbird-wallpapers/

I think this could be amazing for Firefox, using something in a similar vein with a new one released every month or quarter.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

benlimanto — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:21:54 GMT

I think it's okay to have colour, it should be able to change the colour on URL bar on Mobile and the menu theme also, the last thing should be the responsiveness of the UI rather than the ability to change colour.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

ma77hiaz — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:47:32 GMT

Well, this might not primarily have to do with colors, but can you please consider uncluttering the firefox suggestions?

I attached two pictures: One from Safari, the other one from Firefox.

Safari look so clean, they have the different types of suggestions (search results, browsing history, direct urls) visually separated, and it just looks clean.

Firefox on the other hand looks so cluttered, and it's definitely not nice to look at. There's no real distinction between the suggestions and it feels like too much information at once. Maybe also, because the font size for everything is about the same.

This is the reason why I switched back to Safari... I just don't like this cluttered UI of Firefox. Otherwise, I would really like the browser!

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:24:09 GMT

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:25:24 GMT

Thank you for your feedback. When you say responsiveness are you referring to how the layout reacts to font size changes?

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:25:51 GMT

Thank you for the feedback - I will pass this on to our design team.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

Jon — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:12:13 GMT

Hey all,

I wanted to surface this discussion in case you have more feedback on the topic of 'Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile' (or anything related to customization, themes, etc.). We are planning to close this thread out soon, so please feel free to share your thoughts here.

Thanks for participating! We are excited to continue collaborating with the community 💪

-The Community Team

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

SheikhAzharuddi — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 06:31:38 GMT

Instead of wallpapers , predefined colors can be used like firefox colorways to color the toolbar and the menu

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

ansiklopedici — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:32:52 GMT

A relavant and good idea:

More Customization for Firefox on Android

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

darcese — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:37:11 GMT

Hello again!

Thank you everyone for your participation. Your responses are very valuable to our team.

Here are the common ideas that the team will evaluate:

Adding the ability to add custom wallpapers
Being able to color more UI elements like the toolbar and menu
Collaborating with artists to create unique wallpapers
Releasing new wallpapers on more regular cadences

These ideas must be evaluated and prioritized against our backlog before we can commit to anything, but these insights were very helpful to inform our next steps.

Re: Bringing Colour to Firefox Mobile

Jon — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:59:09 GMT

Hey all,

Thanks so much for participating in this conversation about using color to make the mobile browser experience more personal and engaging! We are closing out this thread but want to encourage you to continue sharing your feedback and ideas about this particular topic (and others, of course) in new posts—just be sure to use the necessary labels and tags, so your posts are easily searched for and discovered by our teams.

As always, we are going to keep the fun rolling. A new discussion hosted by a Mozilla employee has just kicked off and can be found here: . Let us know what you think about this exciting new feature 🙌

This is an ongoing series here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we look forward to continuing to collaborate with you all!

-The Community Team