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Is it me or this article is really vague? What's the new experience, exactly? Also, I started using Firefox on my Android phone because of 2 reasons: block ads

Is it me or this article is really vague? What's the new experience, exactly? Also, I started using Firefox on my Android phone because of 2 reasons: block ads and Google seems to be more and more for-profit and not for-users. And I love Firefox with one exception: when I press a link on another app Firefox doesn't open but gives me a small notification on the bottom the screen saying the tab opened in Firefox. I find this really annoying as I wouldn't press a link if I didn't want to browse it right away.

ohazi 7y ago
That feature is called tab queue, and it can be disabled in settings.
- zwirbl 7y ago
  And it is one of the reasons I use FF on Android
- geek-advised 7y ago
  Oh, I didn't know what's called. Thank you.
- dmos62 7y ago
  I personally find this feature brilliant.
- thinkingemote 7y ago
  What is tab queue? Is that the new feature or is that the old feature that gp was complaining about? What are the new features?
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    It's the feature they were complaining about. It's useful if you're in some other apps (e.g. a feed reader) from which you want to open several links in a row, which you then work through in order afterwards within Firefox. Disabling the tab queue means tabs get directly opened again.
- tiii 7y ago
  IIRC a double tap on a link opens the browser.
hd4 7y ago
It's not you, I only opened the article to see if they had dealt with input lag and just lag in general and I get 6 paragraphs of unwanted marketing speak until I even get close to something resembling actual changes. If anyone from Mozilla is reading this, just get to the facts next time, don't insult us by throwing a ton of marketing babble at us, we don't care.
- kuschku 7y ago
  Firefox Preview is the complete review that fixes input lag and UI responsitivity - if they managed to bring all of that to today's nightly release, that's not clear.
- endothrowho333 7y ago
  That marketing babble is there for the same reason the majority of YouTube videos are >10 minutes and filled with the same filler: Google's ranking algorithm. For YouTube videos it's mean watch time. Filler babble pumps up those numbers. For Google, it's mean read time. Filler babble also pumps up this number. However, it also ranks higher directly because it's considered a "long form" piece instead of a soundbite, and because it's more unique than similar pages (f.e compare all news outlets covering the same story -- it's all relatively the same). Blame Google, for its algorithms that are directly shaping our communications and culture. Hell, blame all tech companies that use algorithms to determine culture (see: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Quora, and yes, HN). Whether this is good or bad, is someone else's argument to write. Mozilla, and every other website owner, must play the game in order to drive organic traffic to its pages through search engine optimization. Otherwise, you might not be reading this article right now, and it would be solely shared by word-of-mouth from people who check the site or are on a newsletter.
  - psv1 7y ago
    > Blame Google, for its algorithms that are directly shaping our communications and culture. Hell, blame all tech companies that use algorithms to determine culture > Mozilla, and every other website owner, must play the game No. Mozilla and every other contributor still have a responsibility for what they put out there. Google and Facebook messing up the overall environment doesn't let individual contributors off the hook.
llarsson 7y ago
If you click the link a second time, it launches Firefox for you. At least, that's my experience.
lscotte 7y ago
Sounds like you turned on the tab queue option, try turning that back off.

ohazi 7y ago

That feature is called tab queue, and it can be disabled in settings.

zwirbl 7y ago
And it is one of the reasons I use FF on Android
geek-advised 7y ago
Oh, I didn't know what's called. Thank you.
dmos62 7y ago
I personally find this feature brilliant.
thinkingemote 7y ago
What is tab queue? Is that the new feature or is that the old feature that gp was complaining about? What are the new features?
- Vinnl 7y ago
  It's the feature they were complaining about. It's useful if you're in some other apps (e.g. a feed reader) from which you want to open several links in a row, which you then work through in order afterwards within Firefox. Disabling the tab queue means tabs get directly opened again.
tiii 7y ago
IIRC a double tap on a link opens the browser.

hd4 7y ago

It's not you, I only opened the article to see if they had dealt with input lag and just lag in general and I get 6 paragraphs of unwanted marketing speak until I even get close to something resembling actual changes. If anyone from Mozilla is reading this, just get to the facts next time, don't insult us by throwing a ton of marketing babble at us, we don't care.

kuschku 7y ago
Firefox Preview is the complete review that fixes input lag and UI responsitivity - if they managed to bring all of that to today's nightly release, that's not clear.
endothrowho333 7y ago
That marketing babble is there for the same reason the majority of YouTube videos are >10 minutes and filled with the same filler: Google's ranking algorithm. For YouTube videos it's mean watch time. Filler babble pumps up those numbers. For Google, it's mean read time. Filler babble also pumps up this number. However, it also ranks higher directly because it's considered a "long form" piece instead of a soundbite, and because it's more unique than similar pages (f.e compare all news outlets covering the same story -- it's all relatively the same). Blame Google, for its algorithms that are directly shaping our communications and culture. Hell, blame all tech companies that use algorithms to determine culture (see: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Quora, and yes, HN). Whether this is good or bad, is someone else's argument to write. Mozilla, and every other website owner, must play the game in order to drive organic traffic to its pages through search engine optimization. Otherwise, you might not be reading this article right now, and it would be solely shared by word-of-mouth from people who check the site or are on a newsletter.
- psv1 7y ago
  > Blame Google, for its algorithms that are directly shaping our communications and culture. Hell, blame all tech companies that use algorithms to determine culture > Mozilla, and every other website owner, must play the game No. Mozilla and every other contributor still have a responsibility for what they put out there. Google and Facebook messing up the overall environment doesn't let individual contributors off the hook.

llarsson 7y ago

If you click the link a second time, it launches Firefox for you. At least, that's my experience.

lscotte 7y ago

Sounds like you turned on the tab queue option, try turning that back off.