763338 - New Fennec tab menu is not user friendly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[bug.zilla]

Firstly, moving the close tabs menu X to the right hand side of each tab is very helpful.

However, the way the new tabs appear (i.e. taking up the top 75% of the page with the bottom 25% being taken up by the current page) is a little clunky.

I'm probably missing the obvious but I find it unnecessarily complex and adds graphics strain on low-end devices without much benefit.

The biggest issue I have is that now only three tabs are visible vs. the old menu where five tabs where visible at any time. This just adds to unnecessary scrolling as you try and find the tab you're looking for. Real estate is at a premium already on mobile.

As I said, I'm probably missing something but I much prefer the old style (but with the close button on the right).

Many thanks.

Comment 1

[bug.zilla]

Having used this for a while now, I'm getting used to it.
I think users can live with it especially since scrolling through tabs is now a faster (hopefully that's the case with lower end devices as well).