[Link Posting] Users absolutely hate the new Firefox web browser

[Rich]

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<URL:https://www.techradar.com/news/users-absolutely-hate-the-new-firefo
x-web-browser>

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> Mozilla is beginning to roll out a new version of its Firefox browser
> for Android devices and users have not been impressed so far.
>
> As part of a phased transition, Firefox 79 was pushed to a selection of
> Android devices on August 20 and, with it, a host of bugs and unexpected
> UI changes.
>
> Disgruntled users have since flooded the browser's Google Play Store
> page with negative reviews, citing bare-bones settings, the lack of a
> clear back button and severely limited add-on support, among other
> grievances.
>
> ...

[Eli the Bearded]

In comp.misc, Rich <ri...@example.invalid> wrote:
> <URL:https://www.techradar.com/news/users-absolutely-hate-the-new-firefox-web-browser>

> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>> Mozilla is beginning to roll out a new version of its Firefox browser
>> for Android devices and users have not been impressed so far.

I have it. It has a couple of gratuitous changes, like URL bar to bottom
and some bugs[*]. I'm not hating it, and not furious, but I know from
long experience, Internet users generally hate gratuitous changes.

[*] Parts of the page on mobile.twitter.com sometimes show up in the
wrong place, specifically a bar that should be anchored to the
bottom is sometimes anchored a bit above the bottom. The pop-ups
for downloaded images don't go away automatically, too.

Elijah
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has not noticed any killer new features

[Andy Burns]

Eli the Bearded wrote:

>>> Mozilla is beginning to roll out a new version of its Firefox browser
>>> for Android devices and users have not been impressed so far.
>
> I have it.

I put off getting it, mozilla decided I'd waited too long and not my
tablet has it, it's not that bad ...

> It has a couple of gratuitous changes, like URL bar to bottom

you can move that back to top

> and some bugs[*]. I'm not hating it, and not furious,

If it had killed uBlock I'd be furious, but it hasn't, it has killed I
Don't Care About Cookies, which is a bit annoying

[Theo]

Rich <ri...@example.invalid> wrote:
> > As part of a phased transition, Firefox 79 was pushed to a selection of
> > Android devices on August 20 and, with it, a host of bugs and unexpected
> > UI changes.
> >
> > Disgruntled users have since flooded the browser's Google Play Store
> > page with negative reviews, citing bare-bones settings, the lack of a
> > clear back button and severely limited add-on support, among other
> > grievances.

I haven't tried the update, but last time I used FF on a Galaxy Note 4
performance was absolutely awful - much worse than Chrome on the same phone.
I hope the update has made it competitive.

Theo

[Andy Burns]

Theo wrote:

> last time I used FF on a Galaxy Note 4
> performance was absolutely awful

I'm not sure if GeckoView is a wrapper around Gecko to make it an
Android component, or a completely separate browser engine? If the
latter I doubt Mozilla's capability to support it long-term.

[Dirk T. Verbeek]

Op 31-08-2020 om 20:56 schreef Rich:

I've now used it and can't really object to the changes.
It was easy to move the address bar to the top and noticed it now starts
up with a choice of different 'Collections' of previously opened tabs.
They are easy to edit and for me it works.
But I do most of my browsing with the DuckDuckGo browser which follows
the previous FF format.