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IMHO it's definetly a hard break with the past design.
But it looks more mature and not as 'shy'.

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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For whatever it's worth, you can enable a movable tab bar in Firefox Nightly for Android.

This will force the tab and omnibar to the top of the screen, however.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Woah I was literally just commenting that I miss that expanded toolbar layout. Unfortunately that option isn't visible yet in my Nightly, but this indicates that it might not be gone forever, awesome!

Edit: Just enabled Secret Settings and now I have back my beloved toolbar! It's a bit chunkier than it used to be, but still neat.

Edit 2: ah, and no back/forward buttons, that's a shame. I'd prefer those over the bookmark button.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, bookmark feels like something no one needs with any regularity.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the Secret Settings it was named something like "Composable toolbar", so perhaps we'll get the ability to customise the contents later.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just because it's the toolbar rewritten in Jetpack Compose rather than the old one which was written with XML and used a custom parser.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Ah! That makes sense

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neat! seems I need to update!

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also some new secret settings for the new toolbar.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ah! That may be why I don't see it 😓