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Firefox Android has a new stupid menu (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I highly doubt that. Why else would this feature exist? To me this features purpose seems explicitly to open a tab with persistent cookies.

[–] Carighan 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I meant not that the situation couldn't come up at all, but that someone uses it as their normal way of browsing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I also doubt that, as this is a feature inherited from Firefox Focus, to open links in private tabs by default.