Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by Beldin on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:58AM (#24158746)

I tried. Tab switching was - for me - horrible compared to Chrome (chrome:swipe down, swipe address bar down, select tab you want from carousel).

I kept looking if i missed this obvious feature. I tried to live without it, but Firefox mobile's tab switching just turned out to be a deal breaker for me.

If anyone had some tips: please!! I'd vastly prefer using FF on mobile.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by 3PS on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:02PM (#24159666)

Tab switching on Firefox Nightly is much better as of a week or so ago. You can now swipe left and right on the address bar to go between tabs, just like in Chrome. It's particularly nice when the address bar is on the bottom.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by sharmi on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:44PM (#24160883)

Cool. Long time firefox user here and that was a useful discovery for me

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by Beldin on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:30PM (#24162239)

Thanks! That convinces me to give it a shot.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by yrro on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:12AM (#24158946)

This has been reworked in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi.... The URL bar is now at the bottom of the screen, including the tab switch button which is now always within reach of your thumb.

On the other hand, I didn't have a problem with tapping the tab select button in the non-beta app, where it's in exactly the same position as it is in Chrome...

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by soco on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:20PM (#24159855)

Oh how I hate the new Firefox experience on Android. I'll still use it because hey it's Firefox, but it's really eating me up...</digression>

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by zentiggr on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:11PM (#24161275)

URL bar on the bottom sounds amazing :) I'm all in favor of moving all toolbars, search fields, any sort of interactive controls to the bottom on mobile interfaces. So much easier than having to reach to the top of the screen at random, even if it isn't always thumbable.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by metiscus on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:29PM (#24159957)

The position is configurable. There is a setting that will allow you to move it back where it "belongs".

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by yrro on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:05PM (#24162603)

Good point, address bar on the bottom may not even be the default. I think it makes great sense though. Looking forward to the current Firefox Beat replacing the main Firefox app so I can free up a lot of space on my phone... :)

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by mindfulhack on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:27PM (#24159935)

This is the problem with the whole industry right now.

How Google win - and they do it with many of their products - is that they bother to make their products just superior enough to the competition, that you basically have no choice but to use their product, unless you want a deliberately inferior experience.

It's not just Chrome vs. Firefox, which I'm very sad about. Another big example for me is on my iPhone. Google's GBoard is simply superior to anything else I've ever tried, and yet I know it's spying on absolutely everything I'm typing on the device (pre-encryption), at all times, and it even bullies me into staying online if I want the keyboard to work fully properly. (It's slower and the prediction stuff doesn't work half as well if I'm in flight mode for whatever reason.)

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