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As a Firefox fan who has recommended it in my circles in the past, I'm disappointed by the new privacy and user experiences. I see it as many steps back from t

As a Firefox fan who has recommended it in my circles in the past, I'm disappointed by the new privacy and user experiences. I see it as many steps back from the old experience. I hesitate to recommend this new mobile version to anybody. They claim this is "the most private mobile Firefox so far". But DNS-over-HTTPS is disabled. There is no way to enable or configure it because there are no network settings at all in the new Settings page. DoH was a simple solution to government censorship in my country. Now, users will probably switch to Brave because it has a built-in VPN. The UX too irritates... 1) I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons. I had to switch to dark theme just to be able to see those buttons. 2) The top sites list uses smaller icons with website titles as captions. If a website uses the title "Breaking News", that becomes its caption. It's difficult to tell from the favicon and such titles what site it is. The captions are single-line cropped with ellipses making it even more difficult to guess which website it is. What I don't understand is why the release was rushed with such drastic changes instead of some kind of UX A/B studies to get feedback over time. Their reddit sub is rather hostile to any feedback and reminds me of stackoverflow nastiness. It's almost like Mozilla is trying to shed its user base.

dblohm7 6y ago
> Their reddit sub is rather hostile to any feedback and reminds me of stackoverflow nastiness. “Their” Reddit sub is not an official forum any more than this HN thread is.
papaf 6y ago
1) I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons. I had to switch to dark theme just to be able to see those buttons. I have this problem too and I am using the default phone configuration. Its bizarre that professional Android developers would make the extra effort of breaking the navigation buttons on a product that is unfinished because of time constraints.
aasasd 6y ago
> I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons This doesn't happen for me on Android 10, and I haven't seen such a mode on any screenshots, so it seems to be a bug. Neither the new nor the old version have options for ‘fully-full-screen’ display where the top and bottom bars would be hidden. However, Mozilla isn't known for speedy fixing of bugs—probably doubly so with its current troubles. So I wouldn't raise hopes up even if this behavior is reported in the tracker.

dblohm7 6y ago

> Their reddit sub is rather hostile to any feedback and reminds me of stackoverflow nastiness. “Their” Reddit sub is not an official forum any more than this HN thread is.

papaf 6y ago

1) I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons. I had to switch to dark theme just to be able to see those buttons. I have this problem too and I am using the default phone configuration. Its bizarre that professional Android developers would make the extra effort of breaking the navigation buttons on a product that is unfinished because of time constraints.

aasasd 6y ago

> I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons This doesn't happen for me on Android 10, and I haven't seen such a mode on any screenshots, so it seems to be a bug. Neither the new nor the old version have options for ‘fully-full-screen’ display where the top and bottom bars would be hidden. However, Mozilla isn't known for speedy fixing of bugs—probably doubly so with its current troubles. So I wouldn't raise hopes up even if this behavior is reported in the tracker.