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Firefox for Android UI update? Material You? (lemmy.tf)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Material Design was awesome, IMO. Really cool haptics, clean fonts, simple recognizable shapes, a UI that had style but didn't get in the way.

Material You otoh... Oh boy. An insanely wide font, rounded corners and excessive whitespace galore so even tablets feel like 4" phones again, everything has the same color and expression and just looks the same. It's the least design a design could be. Like they fired everyone but one intern who then just gave up.

[–] xcjs 1 points 1 year ago

I'm exactly with you on everything you said.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the concept of a unified look between apps. IMO Google hit the right spot in design. Apps should always look familiar and easy to use based on your experiences with previous apps, something which is only possible through a unified design like Material You.