this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
65 points (97.1% liked)

Firefox

17811 readers
56 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

TL;DR (From Android Authority)
• Mozilla responded to a review mentioning the lack of tablet UI optimization for Firefox on Android.
• Mozilla confirmed that its team is not working on optimizing the tablet experience at the moment.
• Mozilla did, however, say that it hopes to revisit tablet optimization when time and resources permit.

all 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

There's a tablet UI on the way. This is a simple case of someone not checking the new mockups

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure what needs optimizing. It's fine on Pixel Tablet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That's disappointing, really.

The lack of even something like keyboard shortcuts just makes Firefox feel really really unfinished on tablets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I maybe biased (typing from Fold 4), but this seems to be important to me, doing this makes Firefox seem like a laggard and behind the chromium world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Regardless, this is important.

This means that, for tablet users, the option is between Chromium on Android or WebKit on iOS, unless they're using a Windows or Linux tablet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I use Firefox everyday on my Samsung tab and works fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't expect much of anything from Firefox mobile except slowness and bugs tbh. I still use it because of the add-on support but there's tab bugs that have existed for three years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is this company's focus even

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I say dumb.