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Crusader_Nejaa
Familiar face
Status: New idea

It's not secret that many people dislike the new changes to the menu and tabs viewer, further there are people who will not be able to use it or severely struggle to use it. By allowing us the option of which we use and see it will allow users to continue using our favorite and preferred android web browser as well as allow those who prefer the older style of menu and tab organization.

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nellieblue
Making moves

I agree, 100 percent.

very well stated and the form follows function statement, very true and how it should be if you want things to work well and have happy users! 

I also opened my account here just for this cause.

 

 

nellieblue
Making moves

well more bad news may be on the way. I reverted my Firefox to the last older level that you could use the three dot menu on knowing that sooner or later it will become obsolete or they would try to force me to the newest version. bearing in mind that I have all my apps set to not Auto, today I had a bunch of updates needed for several apps so I mainly went through them and selected the ones I wanted to update but I did not select Firefox even though it was on the list. however once those apps got done updating the ones I did select I found that Firefox had also been updated without my permission. so I think they forced an upgrade on me because I was so far behind current level. now this phone is stuck with the user interface that I do not like nor does most other people. so be forewarned they appear to now be forcing the new system on us. I have a another identical phone that has not yet been forcefully Changed to the new user interface that no one likes.

Grolter
Strollin' around

I also think the new design is worse than the old one, both functionally and visually. I think the new settings menu is bloated and looks bad, and the tab grid was better in the old design as well. The new design takes up way too much space in general.

Moreover, the new design arrived unexpectedly, just one update, and you don't even have a choice to switch back. It's not a nice way to roll out a new ui, especially considering that downgrading isn't really an option. Sure, it was available through experiments before (and enabled randomly for some people - and sure enough, many people wanted to get rid of it back then already), but deleting the old UI completely in order to "enable by default" the new one seems like a bad way to do it.

And given that a common answer to some of the problems with the new design seems to be "we did it intentionally" (missing media controls in tab overview, tab tray now being a full size window, way too large settings menu), these are design flaws, not something that can be fixed without simply bringing the old UI back.

 

So please do, bring the old UI back. And even if it's not easy, please make it a priority.