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I'm not one to usually diss new UI changes, but this one grinds my gears.

Firefox for Android has released a new menu design. It organizes everything a little differently, which is alright it looks fresh. But 2 things are really annoying and a continuous design trend in Firefox.

  • The option to open page in external app has been tucked away in a sub menu. I used this often and it was in the top level menu before. Companies just love hiding things in menus for no reason.
  • the option to open a private tab as a normal tab is GONE. This is how I use Firefox: someone sends me a link, I click on it and it opens in a private tab by default. If I need to sign in to see it (e.g. private Instagram links) then I open it in a normal tab. This option is now simply gone.

So yeah that's my rant. I'll see if I open a bug requesting the 2nd issue back.

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[โ€“] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've switched back to the old menu until they fix the bug. I use open in normal tab tens of times a day.

Honestly, I'm kinda at fault here. Both my NextDNS and Pi-Hole block Telemetry, so they're not getting usage numbers to support prioritising the feature.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can disable this?

Edit: found it. I disabled the experiment. Thank you so much!