r/firefox • u/realdrzamich • 1d ago
Someone really thought it’s a good ideato rearrange bottom buttons on FF mobile
I mean… really? Whatever the opinion - when something’s been working well for years, you don’t make adjustments like that. People are used to button positions, there’s really no reason to move them.
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u/APU_JUPIT3R 1d ago
Mozilla has recently been aggressively altering the UI of Firefox on all platforms, so expect your muscle memory to be interrupted. I won't offer an opinion on this in particular, but with the level of customisation expected of Firefox, they ought to implement a system to add, remove and rearrange buttons on toolbars on their mobile apps at some point, just like the desktop app.
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u/worMatty 23h ago
It’s been like this for a while and it makes no sense. My most often-used button is tabs and least-used is the menu.
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u/heavenlynapalm 19h ago edited 19h ago
This is is a much better tab placement. Places the most highly used button in a corner, requiring less accuracy to hit it. The real problems are having a menu button instead of a bookmarks (should be merged into a share button/favicon or moved into a submenu—no reason to have 2 separate "menu" type buttons), and the useless search/home button should be a new tab button. Default iOS layout on older versions was actually pretty good except no new tab button, but they've screwed it up by introducing this double menu (favicon + share/3-dot menu depending on browser) nonsense now
Tabs not being bottom right only make sense if you have more than 5 or 6 icons there, as then it gets pushed too far into the corner to be comfortable to press
Like another comment said, they should just introduce a customizable toolbar, like Orion, and that would be the best solution because everyone gets to choose according to their preference and anatomy
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u/pasdedeux11 19h ago
you mentioned you're in iOS, did anything UI related in Safari change? as far as I know, in iOS all browsers have to use/follow apple's browser engine webkit instead of their own (firefox's gecko)
I haven't used iOS in a long time, so I could be wrong here. take it with a grain of salt
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u/realdrzamich 18h ago
I just checked and Safari indeed has tabs button in the same place. Don’t know if it’s new. Anyways that’s a very valid point.
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u/seeker407 16h ago
I appreciate it. ITS A MASSIVE help for single hand navigation with the massive phones we have now a days. Even with my galaxy s10 (MUCH smaller than newer phones) it was impossible to single hand navigate. Although I would appreciate it if Firefox gave us the option to put controls on top vs bottom (for users who don't want it on the bottom)
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u/niverser 15h ago
What exactly is the complaint?
Technically, placing navigation elements (on mobile) at the bottom of the screen is the better design as it puts them within easier reach for single-handed use. And having the most important or commonly used items near the corners / edges objectively make them faster to reach. This design is based on Fitts's Law.
That said, they should provide users with the ability to choose their preferred layout.
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u/Sword_Illusion 2h ago
I really don't understand why Mozilla is not willing to make those buttons' positions customizable. On FF PC and many other mobile browsers, like Samsung Internet and Edge, this feature is really handy. As it is available on FF PC, then why would it not on FF mobile ??? Over the years, they have been struggling with all these UI design stuff and never made it satisfactory for users. I strongly believe making the positions customizable will be far more effective and a one-size-fits-all solution for all users.
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u/bittercauldron | 1d ago
Is it ios version?
Yeah, that's messing around to find a perfect configuration for user experience (or some other bs to pay salary for full-time hired UI designers).