Does anyone here know how to get the old menu UI back on mobile?
I can't get used to the new one. It's not ergonomic at all imo.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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What do you dislike about the new one?
Mostly that my eyes (and hand) have to change focus and that there's a more button. The new short menu takes up the same amount of space as the old one while showing less.
But it's mostly the firs reason I gave. It really breaks the flow.
Maybe Firefox is going to improve performance in android? Also PWA support on android would be great. PWA support is what's kept me stuck with Brave.
I've got to be honest, the occasional glitch in Firefox Android is more than worth the price of not seeing the ads and consent banners that Chrome would have forced me to look at.
Firefox on Android totally does support PWA's though, since 2018 even actually.
Really? Then maybe its just an issue with waterfox. I will try Firefox later this day. Some PWAs that I regularly use with Brave just showed up as add to home screen on Firefox and show up with title bar.
And here Mozilla is, trying to send everyone they can away
Man it's so funny how the only company that even thinks about allowing you to not have AI, gets so much shit from people.
OK you don't like AI, you can turn in off. They added an option for that. Meanwhile Chrome is automatically downloading 4gb worth of models without your consent. Same with basically each other browser.
Folks are free to use whichever distro they like, Librefox, Waterfox, but remember that without Mozilla foundation the very engine would stop working. Then these forks will not work anymore. Then where will you go? Chromium? Safari?
It's important to keep companies accountable, but nothing is ever black and white.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Yeah I get the feeling like 70+% of people here will never understand that.
Yeah - people love to shit on Mozilla while posting from fucking Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
I like Vivaldi
I've been looking in my laptop and PC (both running CachyOS) for that download Chrome is pushing, and haven't been able to find it in any of them. I'm not saying it's not happening, I'm saying that it seems like some Linux distros are immune to that crap.
I think you have to enable it now too, they heard people weren’t fans and responded.
I like that.
People seem to care more about synthetic benchmarks than using a browser that gives them much less tracking and ads. Remember when chrome was popular because its so fast? I never noticed a difference between that and Firefox in ordinary web pages, except Googles, since they are intentionally making it slow for Firefox.
And with all that going on, people still picked chrome. :)
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Nice but it's kinda wierd how people decided to use these browsers after this new law was passed, I mean it's so easy to install apps on smartphones right now but people needed this choice screen to choose another browser of their liking? I would guess it's probably old people that switched that didn't know how to install browser without it, I googled but couldn't find any prove of this tho so it's just my guts
It's laziness. Most people just take the path of the least resistance.
Once you show them the screen, any choice is the same amount of work so they will select what they really want. But without the screen, 90% of people will be good enough with the default option. Or, they might even be mildly uncomfortable with that option, but not enough to do something about it.
It’s laziness. Most people just take the path of the least resistance.
we all do in many parts of life
I didn't say it's a bad thing. If someone tried to pay attention to every little choice they make, they would be exhausted before the morning coffee.
What kind of browser I use is important to me, since I am a geek. But I don't pay attention to many things that more socially adept people would consider important.
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We tend to overestimate people's skill in tech. The average user uses what came installed, doesn't like installing and experimenting apps, uses a browser while logged in to google, taps yes on everything, will install apps when sites ask for it, without even noticing, and will register in every site or app that asks for it, and even give their real email, name, etc
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Now if only Apple will let Firefox run its own rendering engine instead of Safari’s.
Like, that’s the only thing I don’t get. Other apps which are not web browsers, fine. Use Safari. But an actual web browser? FFS, let them use their own engine.
You can! There's a browser called reynard and it's based off gecko web browser but you still need to sideload them, it isn't available in App Store :-(
The main goal for this browser is to make web browsing usable for older iOS, I find it pretty neat so I wanted to share this!
its just that Apple forces Webkit to all Apps on the app store.
Orion has gotten around that, somehow. Not sure what kind of wizardry they’ve pulled, but they managed to get both Firefox and Chrome extensions working on iOS.
That's Apple's explanation why, but it has flimsy justification. There is no technical reason why Firefox mobile can't use the Gecko rendering engine on Apple iOS. So, unlike every other graphical OS I've ever heard of, you can't really pick your browser. You can only play dress-up with Safari and pick its outfit.
I'm no apple fan, but I will note that their Tight AF control over the apps nets them a very very small power draw and ram footprint. I don't think they're pushing safari because they don't want you to have a choice, I think it's control over their own perf that they're looking for in this case
That argument seems flimsy when I can still download Trash Match Casino Deluxe: Extra Ads Edition from the app store.
I doubt it. There's a lot of money in surveillance capitalism and I don't buy for a minute that Apple are too good to do that or any stupid excuses.
Now if Mozilla would finally get a CEO who is not driven by stupid capitalistic bullshit, I would actually start using Firefox again.
Until then, I stick to WaterFox.
Does WaterFox allow using Mozilla accounts to sync bookmarks and tabs between devices or have some equivalent option?
It does, it's only flaw is that is uses Brave's ad hijacking thing
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