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It'd be cool if the Android version of Firefox got some UI love to bring it back to where it was before they force-updated folks to the "phone only" UI.

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I fond it to be pretty buggy, often the address bar will disappear and not come back when scrolling. Also they really need to add pull to refresh.

Pull to refresh is working for me both on nightly and release. What is not working for you?

On Android? I just opened FF on my phone (v109.2.0) and pull to refresh does not work

Pull to refresh is currently only enabled in Firefox Nightly on Android. There are still some open bugs to be fixed related to pull to refresh gesture breaking some websites.

Mmh, ok I could have sworn is was working for me on normal Firefox as well. Thanks for the correction.

Pull to refresh was one of the reasons I moved to Firefox on Android. I hate it.

I can't count how many times I just wanted to scroll up and ended up refreshing the page.

How about - hear me out - have an option to enable or disable it? Crazy idea, I know.

(I'm not aiming that comment at you, but rather at developers making software less and less configurable)

Indeed! I don't know now, but Chrome didn't have that option at the time.

>It'd be cool if the Android version of Firefox got some UI love to bring it back to where it was before they force-updated folks to the "phone only" UI.

Since this is open source, everybody should be able to adjust the UI to their liking. However, there are too many obstacles for this to be a valid option. What would be needed to make this possible? I think Firefox could become much more popular if the users could collaborate easily on designing the interface.

What project where "the users collaborated to design an interface" has ever lead to a good design?

VIM

First and foremost, a complete redo of how the project is run. But if you want to take that on, you know where to find Mozilla's issue tracker.

Is there a way to have tabs at the top of the browser? I like that about Chrome on my tablet, I can just hit the tabs at the top to swap, whereas on Firefox you need to hit the Tabs icon at the top right that brings up the switcher, then find the one you want and click that.

No, not since the phone-only-ui release. Vivaldi's quite decent though.

Did you even try looking? Settings > Customize > Toolbar. The settings list is not long on Fx mobile and the ability to change the position has been there since the day of the UI refresh.

I'm not sure you read the whole question.

The question was not about bottom vs top, iiuc. It was about having the tabs always visible vs behind a tab button. As far as I can see, there is no way of doing that.

Not that I would want it, myself, since my current counter is 48 tabs and I don't want a bunch more hit regions when I'm thumb-browsing.

It appears I did miss a part of the question. My tab count is ∞ because I'm over 99 and tabs are unloaded. At that rate, if I were on a tablet or something, I'd prefer access to TreeStyleTabs or the like anyhow because horizontal becomes a squished mess. I assume the ctrl+tab as well as alt+{1-9} shortcuts still work.

You can swipe over the address bar to switch tabs like you can switch apps by swiping across the bottom of the screen. Maybe this helps?

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