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Letโ€™s Shape the Future of Firefox Mobile โ€” Together! ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

apandya
Employee
Employee

๏ธ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. Weโ€™re excited to make these features more flexible, so you can better tailor your experience.

Hereโ€™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, weโ€™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 canโ€™t wait to hear your ideas!

Letโ€™s build something amazing together!

โ€” Firefox Mobile Team

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Future
Making moves

Glad the team started focusing more on mobile too.

The new toolbar has only one fuctionality that is useful for me that is the new tab(+). So the " + " button is added to the current toolbar we get better functionality without loosing any screen space.

Also having an abilty to choose from different options, like choosing bookmark button in the place of home button or any other would be a great addition too.

Yugidavin
Making moves

Hi, I would like to share some suggestions on how the menu might look better.

1. Change the menu to a card shape.
Similar to how you design tabs. The reason for this is that I don't think a floating window, like a context menu, aligns with the design language of mobile devices. Since mobile screens are vertically oriented, interaction elements are more commonly placed at the top, middle, or bottom of the screen rather than in asymmetrical positions.

In Firefox for PC, or at least the Linux version I use, the 'context menu' design works well because the floating card design appears directly beneath the button we press with the cursor. A good example is the download menu in the PC version, which Iโ€™ve attached below.

My consideration for adopting this design is that many mobile applications, such as Discord and Obsidian, use it effectively. It makes the interface intuitive and less distracting.

2. Customize the old design with adjustments.
Another option is to refine the existing design with minor changes. For instance, the context menu-like cards could stack above the pressed button (or below if the address bar is at the top). The reason is that, in the current version, pressing the menu button causes the floating window to cover the button and the address bar, almost like placing a piece of paper directly under our fingertip.

This behavior is only useful when operating with one hand and navigating options by swiping, similar to selecting accented letters on a mobile keyboard.

I suggest this layout works better for menus with fewer options. To enhance the visuals, a background color could be added to indicate that the button is being pressed.


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Skywind
Making moves

1. Bring the UI customizability on PC Firefox (customizable toolbar buttons and homepage) to mobile platform.

2. Dedicated UI layout for large-screen devices like foldable phones and tablets. The UI we now have on tablets is just a stretched version of that on mobile phones, which wastes so much horizontal space. Adding a tab strip is a good start, but I'd like to see more improvements. To be honest, I don't even think there would be a problem if the UI layout on PC is applied on tablets.

Moreover, if you make any changes to the UI design, please don't make them fixed; instead, make them optional/reversible, so that users who like or dislike them can all get what they want.

Erwan
Making moves

A "about:config" in order to be able to have access to all the possibilities.

A maximum of customization.

myspace
Making moves

new tab button and share are the most useful for me. if we had full customization, I would consider adding the send to device button as well. for bigger purchases and more long form articles, I prefer desktop so it would be nice having quick access to that 

new-dev
Making moves

Add buttons in the toolbar or provide options to select from

  1. Go Home - I may want to launch another site from quick launch. I would like to place it at a comfortable position in the toolbar for one had use
  2. Close current tab - don't need it anymore. Long press tab button in current iteration is slow
  3. Close all tabs - opened a bunch of them , don't need them anymore. Current method is to go to tab list and then choose from menu. This is cumbersome
  4. Bookmarks - ease of access with switching to another website
  5. Access a certain extension - some extensions may need to be tinkered, for example dark reader may need to be turned off
  6. Turn on/off private mode - ease of switching on/off private mode will encourage it's use

SheikhAzharuddi
Making moves

I want firefox to fix the new toolbar design and menu redesign..

New toolbar: need customisation of the buttons shown like opera, some buttons are simply redundant like back button as I am using Android gesture, so instead of that I could use some other button.

Menu redesign: the new menu is crap, it seems developer has freely used the spaces and added sub menus , please remember we have a small screen device and hence it will be productive if you introduced single page design only..victoria song proposed a better 3 dot menu before she left, maybe you can reuse it.

Toolbar and Firefox color: like other browser we need the toolbar and menus to change color based on site color or user selected static themes

phelpsm90
Making moves

Customizable wallpaper in the new tab please!

Mutzu
Making moves

Hi and thanks a lot!

For me, adding elements in a (transparent) bar at the bottom and top of the screen would be great.

Personally, I would have a bar at the bottom with the elements: back, forward, address, add bookmark, and new tab. At the top right of the screen I would place the menu button, perhaps also show bookmarks.

So it would be nice to have "left-aligned", "center" and "right aligned" areas within the bar spaces. (The address line should use all available space.)

If there were more gestures, I wouldn't need so many UI elements other than address, new tab, and menu. Then I would place them all within the bottom bar space.

(https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/mousepad-gestures/idc-p/59077/highlight/true#M34465)
(https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/swipe-from-bottom-for-tabs-dialog/idi-p/76381)

Maybe I'll need other features more often in the future. Therefore it would be great if all Firefox menu items could be added to the bar spaces.

I would also like to customize the appearance of the bar behind the elements. Ideally, I could make it semi-transparent black, fully transparent, opaque, or blur the content behind it. (I'm not sure what would work best for me yet though).

This customization would make the usability quicker and more ergonomic for me, and show me much of the website.

stefano
Making moves

the new design is wasting vertical space.

please add an option to revert to old design.

 

FM_USA
Making moves

I'm looking for a simple fix, add a Tab Hover color choice line suggestion.

What I've been trying quite unsuccessfully... FireFox, Settings - Extensions & Themes - Manage Your Themes - (page bottom) Build your own theme with Firefox Color.
Then in the Custom Colors area add a 'Check-Box' for (something like) 'Tab Hover' we choose a color.

I tried other posters Themes but this is a constant issue, at least for me.
For some of us our eyes aren't seeing crystal clear, screen glare & others our age creeps up and we need a little extra visual differentiation(s).
HIGH CONTRAST is way to drastic for me at this time, maybe when I've aged 100+ (snicker).

HOPEFULLY this suggestion is a quick & simple enough implementation in the list of color(s) choices.

There could also be a native option to change the background colour of the Firefox icon, as the current one is dark and clashes with all the other Google system icons, which are white.

I've tried every imaginable way to change the 'Background Tab' color, NADA.
Oddly the 'FireFox Color' page has loads of empty space to add check boxes & lines.
It should be a simple matter of adding to "Advanced colors" a 'Tab Hover' color.

I'm referring to the app icon on Android, which has a very dark purple background.