Anyone know how to revert the horrendous new #Firefox #Android menu design?
It is slow, clumsy and it is even harder to reach extension icons than before.
And extensions. Are. The. Only. Reason. To. Use. Firefox. (Apart from Privacy, if you harden it a lot).
I couldnt find an about:config to revert the menu redesign. #Ironfox showed a menu for that for some time.
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I like it very much, morebthan before actually.
And extensions are right there, one tap from the main menu… So what are you bitching about?
For once, a positive UI change IMHO.
It takes an extra click to get to ublock origin which is why I dislike it.
I can’t remeber the last time I needed to interact with uBlock extension. Particularly on mobile, what are you doing with it?
I use ublock in hard mode, so it requires interaction most of the time on new sites.
What are you trying to do?
Have you used hard mode before? You have to manually unblock site elements a lot of the time but it’s very secure for sites that you visit on a whim
I use Firefox Focus for that. No extensions, ad block by default, drops all cookies on close. Basically a stateless browser for every site / session.
What you are doing seems to remind me of using no script.
Unless your goal is to get to data elements as the site is trying to do stupid things like covering text you want to read, which I can understand.
But it sure seems like it would be a pain on mobile.
Nice Cascadia flag you got there, I totally support you guys splitting off and enjoying your own geo region.
Yeah, IronFox has it built in too, but I’m a little particular about blocking everything. You’re correct that it’s like running noscript, in fact, it’s the recommended replacement for noscript.
Nice Cascadia flag you got there, I totally support you guys splitting off and enjoying your own geo region.
Thanks :) One can dream.
I actually like it. Cleaner and easier to use on mobile. Great job 👍.
Only thing I give it is that it doesnt discriminate against left handed people. It is bigger and more cumbersome to reach an addon
This menu ?@Rhababerbarbar @firefoxnightly @firefox@lemmy.world @firefoxwebdevs @firefox@fedia.io really? It is right there on the very first click. Couldn’t possibly be easier. But hey, let’s hate firefox for everything. I am sure they are to blame for global warming too
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@firefoxnightly @firefox@lemmy.world @firefoxwebdevs @firefox@fedia.ioIt is slower. Of course I know where they are, but it takes an extra click, the drawer has animations (doesnt respect the system disabling them), and not all extensions are shown and the order cannot be changed.
So much better. I like it a a lot.
Of course Firefox on mobile is rarely used, that’s what firefox focus is for.
Focus is vastly inferior and without extension support? Also no fully FOSS version available
How is it inferior? And yes no extension support by design. Every extension you add has full control of your browser.
How is it not fully FOSS? Free, Open Source, Software. You saying their are non open binary blobs in it?
Edit: I should say if you build it, if you go with the google play one it has added crap if I remember correctly.
Firefox Android in general has no way of selectively keeping cookies (logins vs tracking) AT ALL. You need #CookieAutoDelete for that.
It also has no content blocker, unlike Brave. You need #uBlockOrigin for that (and no, DNS-based filtering is not good. Little user control, little granularity and badness enumeration)
So it isnt really a privacy friendly browser at all.
Additionally, Focus is stripped down even more, has probably a unique fingerprint etc. And Mozilla includes blobs and nobody cares to release a blobfree version.
For privacy and usability, use #Ironfox.
Hey, @celenity is even here!
Ironfox asks if you want to install uBlockOrigin in the setup screen (which is reall neat btw)
Thats annoying that Focus doesn’t have fingerprint protection. Firefox does so why not include it?
I really like Focus as a concept. On a mobile device 95% of my browsing is one off look up something and move on. Closing and dropping all cookies, adblock built in, no extensions is nearly perfect. Anti fingerprinting should be added.
Any other browsing that matters: yes better off with something else.
You misunderstood me. Focus doesnt have addon support. And as a separate browser it very likely has a unique fingerprint.
You can set #Ironfox to use private browsing always. I suppose that is the appeal with FF Focus and the result is a better browser. And Ironfox has support for FF Sync and has extensive privacy and security improvements, unlike the bit that may have been addes to Focus.
I know it doesn’t have add on support. That is a very good thing. I don’t want it to.
Yes, it has a finger print. I am agreeing on that point. It should be fixed, firefox android has anti finger printing, and I don’t understand why they dont add that to firefox focus.
Again, I use focus for 90% of browsing on mobile by default. I use a different browser for when I want to go to sites I actually care about and use, where I want additional ad block, sync, etc.
You can just… not install addons… or only install trusted ones, from a trusted store, like uBlock Origin.
“It has a fingerprint” makes no sense. Please look up what that even means. Everything has a fingerprint.
Focus is just Firefox Android in worse with a minimalist UI and always private-browsing mode. You can literally do this in Ironfox, and much more.
#No #idea
Might be some way to fiddle with it via userChrome.css. I couldn’t tell you how, but it’d be a place to start looking.
I think I slightly preferred the older UI, but I’m kind of surprised that people care so much either for or against in the comments here. It seems like a pretty minor change to me.
You. Should. Never. Use. Extensions. Unless you absolutely have to.
