1365135 - too hard to get to share menu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Firefox Nightly 55.0a1, May 15
Samsung S8, Touchwiz

Been using Android as daily phone again and one thing that hurts after transitioning from Firefox on iOS is the extra step and crazy hand gymnastics required to share pages.

On Firefox iOS, as you scroll up/down an overlay appears at the bottom of the page providing the ability to share with one hand without first having to open the hamburger menu.

On Firefox Android (and Chrome, iOS webviews, and more), I need to open the hamburger menu first, which is very hard to reach on the top-right when using the phone one-handed.

The top-right area of the phone is one of the extreme ends of the "not ok" zones for mobile, as allowed by ease of motion of the thumb. The dots below represent the travel route of the thumb while holding a phone right-handed [1] without doing hand-gymnastics that might result in dropping the phone, and the x represents the hamburger menu in Firefox Android:

------------
|.        x|
| .        |
|  .       |
|   .      |
|    .     |
|     .    |
|      .   |
------------

We should implement the overlay from Firefox iOS.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

f? to JC.

Comment 2

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Changing component to Theme and Visual Design.

Comment 3

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

Thanks Dietrich
Part of the single hand friendly UI effort that our UX team is exploring should help with this
Flagging Jack so he's aware of your suggestions

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

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