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Comment by jackewiehose | Hacker News Reader

I got the update today and I hate it. The new UI just requires more tapping, has less features and rendering isn't even faster! The whole web-experience actually feels more messy because uMatrix is missing.

I don't get it. Firefox mobile was how old? Two years? Is that the new standard of software-development where you ditch your source every few years and rewrite from scratch?

I'm very disappointed.

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> Firefox mobile was how old? Two years?

I think the old Firefox for Android (Fennec) has been around for at least 10 years, not 2.

Do you use favorites much? How do go to your next site of interest?

In the previous version I had all my most visited sites as toplevel-bookmarks (which were displayed in the new-tab-page) and a bookmark-folder with "maybe-read-later"-bookmarks. That was never very good on mobile because there was no way to reorder bookmarks.

Now I have my most visited sites in the new "top sites" section and the rest goes to bookmarks. Works for me but there is also absolutely no benefit to before (bookmarks are even less accessible). And you still can't reorder any bookmarks/top-sites/collections nor export/import them.

But why fix old bugs or implement requested features when you can just start completely new and ignore the users. That's definitely more fun for the programmers.

So indeed there is no other way to open a new site than by opening a new tab first. Don't you find that annoying? Or do you navigate back constantly?

I find it annoying. The whole update brought nothing but annoyances.

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