Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?

Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by chias on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:52PM (#15773457)

My primary issue with Firefox on Android is that in portrait mode, the URL bar has enough width for about five characters -- the rest being taken up by the back / forward buttons to the left, a magnifying glass icon, the QR code icon, a microphone icon, the refresh button, the tabs button, and the "three-dots" options menu. Typing a URL into a text-field that can display five characters at a time borders on ludicrous, and I have no idea how anyone thought that was reasonable to ship that as the default UI.

Other than that, I'm loving the mobile Firefox.

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Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by jamy015 on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:24PM (#15774091)

I'm not sure how your Firefox ended up like that. Mine has the QR button, mic button and X button when entering a URL, or the reader button, tab button and menu button when viewing a page. The back/forward and refresh buttons are inside the menu ('three dots').

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Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by chias on Saturday November 25, 2017 @09:16PM (#15779113)

Interesting -- it was a fresh install on a Nexus device that had never had Firefox on it before. I'll explore the UI options.

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Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by muxator on Saturday November 25, 2017 @03:56AM (#15775108)

Firefox 57 has introduced the possibility of dragging the URL bar text to scroll it.

It's just a mitigation, but at least it's an ergonomic improvement.

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