* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
new promise: Firefox for Android, underinvestment in UX you'll definitely hate and 12 potential extensions exclusively approved by a committee of parasitic boomers too far gone to be competitive on the contemporary labour market.
Absolute garbage. However way this cut, one team or otherwise, they clearly didn't have the SLIGHTEST clue about the primary value prop of their main product for its users. Today's Mozilla is organizationally incompetent, and I genuinely worry (user for decades) that this time it truly is beyond rescue. That the situation on Android has persisted for almost a year already tells you all you need to know: Mozilla appears not to even possess the nervous system to respond to the obvious pain and misery of its users from that disastrous Android UI rewrite. They seem utterly deaf and dumb, almost like it were already a cadaver. Reminds me of Yahoo
Firefox for Android doesn't allow sideloading,[2] and only has an advantage because Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions at all in its official relases.
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ
[2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/11308 (closed without adequate resolution in https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14034)
I'm aware, and that's great, but since those come with their own caveats, yabuts, exceptions, eccentricities and bugs, I don't consider any of those useful solutions to that problem for me.
Simple Gesture works amazingly well and you can avoid the tabs menu all together with it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-gestur...
It just mustn't collide with the "pull down to refresh" so you might want to remap the gestures not to include down without an up before.
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Now I just need to find a way to quickly open new tabs in fore- and even more important: background. Long press for anything frequent is just infuriating.