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Firefox for Android UI update? Material You? (lemmy.tf)
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The UI for Fenix is dated. Some things need a little bit of love and others just don't make sense at all, like when you paste a URL, you can't see the URL or the Paste and Paste & Go options because the system pop up gets in the way.

Material Design and by extension Android moved away from pop ups and toasts and adopted elements like bottom sheets.

The custom share sheet is a nuisance and there's not even a way to get to the native share sheet.

Firefox for Android works, but it doesn't look or feel like a modern browser that was designed for modern Android.

So being that Android design has evolved so much since Fenix last got a lick of paint, I'm wondering, has anyone heard of anything in the works? Seen any commits or mockups? Screenshots? A mention on Matrix or the mailing lists?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A UI refresh is needed? Maybe.

Material You? Absolutely not. Absolutely not me, and never has been.
It can have "you" in the name when the UI becomes customizable, and not just dark/light/whatever, but the silliest things everything after Material 1 (the true Material) has brought: rounded corner radiuses and margin sizes.

but it doesn't look or feel like a modern browser that was designed for modern Android

I don't know but that's for sure it has become as slow as what people call modern android. It's literally slower with 0 addons than old firefox with loads of tabs and addons, which I still have in parallel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the things you dislike about Material You are the things that my mum loves, the larger tap areas, the ease of reading, etc.

Take Sync for Lemmy for Example or Auxio, these are beautifully designed Material You apps that look good and function well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ok, but I'm not your mum. I guess there are multiple demographics with different needs. I want to fit more on my screen, not less, and I don't want to bring a 22" display with me for that purpose.

Take Sync for Lemmy for Example or Auxio, these are beautifully designed Material You apps that look good and function well.

I'm happy that you like them.
As I said, material you will only deserve it's name when it will mandate adapting to the user. Until then, it's just a marketing name, a huge lie.