Does your phone not come with a back button? How do you navigate "back" in Android? The lack of back button seems to be a common complaint, and I just can't understand it. EDIT: "I just can't understand it" means I'm evidently lacking information about how other people use their phones, so I'm hoping someone who does understand can explain it to me.

I get that feeling but android does not have the full functionalities either. If you do a longpress on the backbutton in either browser on either platform, you will get your history. I don't think android has that longpress for the backbutton.

Previous mobile FF on android had this functionality. They removed it with the update.

Long-pressing the back button to get the history actually works in the Nightly version. I didn't realize that the Stable version doesn't have this feature.

The issue is probably me, by using non-Android stuff most of the time but having an Android tablet. So I have a „back“ button on my iPhone, on my Desktop Firefox (and Chrome and so on), but I can‘t have one on my Androit tablet.

So I‘m the one that usually swipes (that somehow doesn‘t work either...) or click the back button (because that‘s what I‘m used to do). Even feeling dumb not realizing there‘s this „back for everything“ physical button on Android, it feels unnatural to me to use that one.

> How do you navigate "back" in Android?

That's the "leave this Activity" button, personally I strictly don't use it navigating within an app because it's never clear if it's been overridden or not.

For mobile browsers, I always use "open in new tab" so I don't need to go back and can avoid guessing.

No, you are completely right. Android has a back button in the main UI. Even better if the gesture navigation is activated. The browser does not need to copy that.

But Firefox Preview had a bug where often enough the back functionality did not work. I hope that is fixed, if not that might explain some of the complaints.