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I love that they have moved the whole address bar to the bottom of the screen, where my thumb can reach it easily.

This is a massive UX improvement for large screens. I wondered how long it would take UX folks to make this change (along with moving app navigation to the bottom generally).

Minor aside, they don't seem to support the <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000"> to colour the address bar.

This is something I really appreciated in IE for Windows Phone. It's such a small change, but I found it much more pleasant to use. Especially if a phone has a > 5" screen.

Microsoft is really a funny beast. Sort of tangential, but I actually really like the UI in the Edge browser. Unfortunately the interface is laggy, but otherwise I found it very comfortable to use. Also the "save tabs for later" feature is really cool.

> they don't seem to support the <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000"> to colour the address bar.

Do you consider that a bug or a feature? :) Some people wouldn't want the website to mess with their app UI. I can file a Firefox Preview bug report.

Also, did Firefox for Android (Fennec) support <meta name="theme-color">? Or is this a regression in Firefox Preview?

Just for the record the default web browser on Sailfish OS (also Gecko based) has had the address bar on the bottom from day one (eq. November 2013). And I think it's predecesor (the MicroB browser on the N900 since ~2009 might have had it like this as well.

Sometimes it takes a surprising amount of time to copy these nice designs. :)

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