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Wow, I am pretty surprised by this decision. I've been using Firefox Preview for a while, and while I do enjoy the new approach, I still regularly encounter bug

Wow, I am pretty surprised by this decision. I've been using Firefox Preview for a while, and while I do enjoy the new approach, I still regularly encounter bugs, including those that make me lose open tabs or other regressions for which I need to keep Firefox ("regular"?) installed. Not to mention the lack of addons (ad-blockers) and the fact that this announcement is completely useless and void of information. ("Brand new experience", whoa.) What is happening, Mozilla?

vanderZwan 7y ago
Note that this is about Firefox Nightly, not Firefox regular: > A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly So related to this decision I would say: nothing special, as far as I can see. They're just moving Firefox Preview to Firefox Unstable. > while I do enjoy the new approach (...) this announcement is completely useless and void of information. ("Brand new experience", whoa.) You're mentioning this yourself: Firefox Preview is a very new experience compared to the current mainstream Firefox for Android browser. You and I may be aware of Firefox Preview's existence, but for those out there who are not this is not a post that is useless and void of information.
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  > So related to this decision I would say: nothing special, as far as I can see. They're just moving Firefox Preview to Firefox Unstable. But the implication is that Preview is becoming the trunk from which future releases will be cut. If Preview lacks critical features like ad blocking and is as unstable as the previous commenter implies, it's probably not ready for that yet. (I can't comment on the bugginess, since my Preview was stuck in private mode until like five minutes ago — losing tabs was just part of the deal.)
  - vanderZwan 7y ago
    Well, I agree that that is a reasonable worry - Mozilla is not exempt from fears of mismanagement (especially not after the news of the layoffs).
- chrismorgan 7y ago
  But they’re not stopping there: > As for next milestones, the brand new Firefox for Android will go into Beta in Spring 2020 and land in the main release later in the first half of this year. What state it will all be in by then remains to be seen, of course. (Aside: ugh, “Spring” as though everyone lived in temperate and subarctic northern hemisphere. Most of the world doesn’t. This is a very American/European way of expressing things.)
  - squiggleblaz 7y ago
    Imagine they forecast their release "During the harvest" or "when the bushfires stop" or something. It's just weird.
lscotte 7y ago
In addition to not supporting addons, preview also does not let you bypass warnings to access sites with self-signed certificates, and I need to do that.

vanderZwan 7y ago

Note that this is about Firefox Nightly, not Firefox regular: > A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly So related to this decision I would say: nothing special, as far as I can see. They're just moving Firefox Preview to Firefox Unstable. > while I do enjoy the new approach (...) this announcement is completely useless and void of information. ("Brand new experience", whoa.) You're mentioning this yourself: Firefox Preview is a very new experience compared to the current mainstream Firefox for Android browser. You and I may be aware of Firefox Preview's existence, but for those out there who are not this is not a post that is useless and void of information.

squiggleblaz 7y ago
> So related to this decision I would say: nothing special, as far as I can see. They're just moving Firefox Preview to Firefox Unstable. But the implication is that Preview is becoming the trunk from which future releases will be cut. If Preview lacks critical features like ad blocking and is as unstable as the previous commenter implies, it's probably not ready for that yet. (I can't comment on the bugginess, since my Preview was stuck in private mode until like five minutes ago — losing tabs was just part of the deal.)
- vanderZwan 7y ago
  Well, I agree that that is a reasonable worry - Mozilla is not exempt from fears of mismanagement (especially not after the news of the layoffs).
chrismorgan 7y ago
But they’re not stopping there: > As for next milestones, the brand new Firefox for Android will go into Beta in Spring 2020 and land in the main release later in the first half of this year. What state it will all be in by then remains to be seen, of course. (Aside: ugh, “Spring” as though everyone lived in temperate and subarctic northern hemisphere. Most of the world doesn’t. This is a very American/European way of expressing things.)
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  Imagine they forecast their release "During the harvest" or "when the bushfires stop" or something. It's just weird.

lscotte 7y ago

In addition to not supporting addons, preview also does not let you bypass warnings to access sites with self-signed certificates, and I need to do that.