Let’s Shape the Future of Firefox Mobile — Together! 🛠️

[apandya]

️Hello Firefox Community!

We've been listening closely to your feedback here on Connect, and we understand that the recent updates to the toolbar and menu on Firefox for Mobile (iOS & Android) have sparked discussions about wanting easy access to the features you use the most. Your experience with our app is our top priority, and together, we want to make it truly fit your needs.

The new menu and toolbar experience is just the beginning! We envision it as a first step toward giving you more control, and customization is our next priority. We’re excited to make these features more flexible, so you can better tailor your experience.

Here’s how you can help shape the future:
Tell us what you need! Share your thoughts on what works best for you:

• What features would you love to access faster right from the toolbar on Firefox mobile? How would faster access to these features help you? Examples are helpful to hear!
• How would you like to customize the toolbar and menu on Firefox mobile? How would these customizations help you in the browser? Again, examples help us make the most of your feedback!

While we may not be able to tackle every request, we’re committed to building an experience that makes as many of you as possible feel right at home in Firefox for mobile. Your insights are essential to making that happen, and we can’t wait to hear your ideas!

Let’s build something amazing together!

— Firefox Mobile Team

[polty]

Just beware, make sure your automatic updates in the play store/ wherever you download apps on Mobile is TURNED OFF in the settings.

Apparently update 149 is completely getting rid of these secret settings fixes 🙄

[jk109ff]

For Android Tablet:

Please add the Mouse Scrool Wheel click on links to open under the new tab.

Mouse Wheel Click on opened tab to close the tab.

If dozens new tabs opened under the new UI it's impossible to scroll right and left with the mouse wheel when mouse is over the tabs section. You can scroll them only with the finger on the screen. 

For Android in general:

Give us an option to pin the Extensions, for a quick access. (Obsidian Web clipper, or uBo quick access is very usefull).

Give us an option to customize the density/size of a toolbar.

[seseiSeki]

This gradient that needlessly hides too much of the URL. I can kind of understand why it's on the right, but why is the left side of the URL also hidden? The effect starts way to far away from the buttons. Does there need to be so much padding between the button and the start of the gradient? In addition, the gradient is also very long. For a central element in a browser on a screen that doesn't have much horizontal space, taking that away by having a long gradient does not seem like the best use of the limited space available. 

A really great change is the removal of the weird house button, I only ever accidentally pressed. Instead, there's now a configurable button, which is really good. I'm just missing two options: Forward and None.

Forward should be straight forward. There already is a unified way to go back on Android, which I constantly make use of to go back. So a button that does the opposite would be another great addition. It would be perfect if the tap and hold functionality wasn't disabled when the button is greyed out. Tapping and holding either back or forward brings up the history for this tab, which is very useful. But with only one of these buttons available on the toolbar, sometimes this feature is inaccessible.

And None gives people the freedom to exchange a button they wouldn't use for more space for the URL and less clutter.

The menu. The redesign is fine, after people mentioned that when using the bottom toolbar, the most interacted with elements should also be put on the bottom. Going one step further and letting the user arrange buttons freely would greatly enhance Firefox' usability. Removing clutter you never use, bringing the most commonly used options closer to your thumb... These are decisions no UI/UX team will ever be able to perfectly make and cater to everyone, since every user is different and prioritizes different features.

A short while ago, I made a mockup of how I would customize my menu, if I could:

Not having to reach around buttons you never use and being able to quickly accessing the ones you do would catapult Firefox' usability and accessibility to great heights. 

[suikaz]

realistically we should be able to remove and move around both the configurable and tabs buttons, also remove the reader view or move out of the way, as is now tapping the address bar is a pain

[BlueSnivyian]

Just give me the option to permanently revert to the old UI. That's all I want.

It wasn't broke, so you shouldn't try to "fix" it.

[GB609]

The new menu on firefox mobile is badly thought out and appears to not be tested for practical usability before being rolled out:

1. Im mostly using firefox/my phone 2 handed. holding it in the left and navigating with the right pointer finger. For this, the new layout is completely unusable.

My url bar is at the top, the menu button is in the top right, but the menu opens from the bottom, with things like 'reload' or 'back' being placed at a position that is notably far way from the current position of my 'control' finger. That is a VERY counterintuitive design, as these are the most-used buttons in the menu. So everytime i want to quickly reload (or stop a page from loading), i have to open the menu and then move my hand to the other side of the screen? Unnatural and unnecessary flow of movement. And it betrays established user expectations. Menus have ALWAYS been opened from the button/ui element that triggered them, regardless of platform or os. This holds true for any and all other android apps i'm using. Changing this is an unintuitive mental break of operation flow.

2. I'm a heavy user of addons like noscript. The sheer amount of additional taps and navigation needed to open addon configs now is intolerable.

As it stands right now, i've locked my installation to the last version that still allows falling back to the old menu. If the new menu remains as it is... well, then i'll be yet another long-term firefox user jumping ship.

[elseifthen]

Exactly! The NoScript workflow is being complicated for no obvious benefit.

[edwin52]

Please remove the bookmark count in Android. It is of no use and cuts out half the bookmark display ! It makes seaching bookmarks more difficult. I have reverted to version 143.0 to avoid this and the new cumbersome UI ! 

[WhyMustIDoThis]

Please give us back the option to keep the good UI we had before you forced out your recent change. I want the old tab menu and the old "3 dots" drop-down menu back. This godawful new UI is strictly worse in every way.