cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Long-press back button no longer summons history on Android?

LoKaa2
Making moves

I thought last week's Samsung update broke my phone or something over the last few days, but after trying Beta, Focus, and Nightly; I finally found a 2-week-old 133.0.3 Fennec build on F-Droid where it still works; so it can't be my phone after all.

Did you decide to remove this feature, or did it break in the 134.0 update? It was the app's most useful feature for browsing, imho.

I know you can tap the three dots and long-press the menu's arrows, but having to pause to check which of the two arrows isn't grayed out and thus clickable is such a flow killer compared to the global long-press action, and I've been constantly running into it since this change.

2 REPLIES 2

CharlieTed
Making moves

@LoKaa2 wrote:

I thought last week's Samsung update broke my phone or something over the last few days, but after trying Beta, Focus, and Nightly; I finally found a 2-week-old 133.0.3 Fennec build on F-Droid where it still works; so it can't be my phone after all.

Did you decide to remove this feature, or did it break in the 134.0 update? It was the app's most useful feature for browsing, imho.

I know you can tap the three dots and long-press the menu's arrows, but having to pause to check which of the two arrows isn't grayed out and thus clickable is such a flow killer compared to the global long-press action, and I've been constantly running into it since this change.


Hi! It seems the long-press back button feature was removed in recent updates. While the three-dot menu with arrows is a workaround, it’s not as smooth as the previous method. I’d suggest sharing feedback with Mozilla, as they might consider bringing it back in future updates. Hope that helps!

LoKaa2
Making moves

Never mind, I found an older Nightly bug report for it  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1932300 , it just doesn't appear to have been addressed yet and moved on to Stable.