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Restoring the recently-removed Navigation Bar in Firefox Mobile? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Stovetop@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Woke up this morning to find that Firefox Nightly has finally removed the separate navigation bar on mobile, apparently due to an overwhelmingly negative user response. But it was a feature I really enjoyed using, being the closest non-Chromium setup I could find similar to Samsung Internet, and would like to re-enable if possible.

Does anyone know if there are any extensions or other add-ons for FF mobile which enable any sort of nav bar layout or similar? Or is my only recourse to grab the previous version of the APK and stay on that until I can find a better alternative?

Example screenshots included if anyone is not sure what I am describing.

Standard Firefox:

My old setup in Samsung Internet:

Firefox Nightly when it still had the nav bar (RIP):

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[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why did it get a negative response? It's great

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah coming from "normal" Firefox mobile it took me a minute to get used to it but this morning I immediately noticed it was gone and now I want it back :(

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Like other stated. It used up too much space. Most of want it did can be done via Android or gestures if you have them.

Even the redesigned menu us a bit annoying since it takes one extra button press to get to extensions onto of an upward swipe.

As far as perhaps pitting it for you, try via the Secret Menu, of the mobile version of the Developer Mode.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always set the address bar to the bottom of the screen so I get everything (search bar, tabs button, backwards, etc) in an accessible place.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

oh so thats why i dont have it anymore

one day it was just gone and the release notes was about bug fixing, and i got really confused (i think i just didnt use ff for a while or it updated a bunch of versions at once)

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still have it. Just checked and the things are still there.