Secondly, the faux-tab appears regardless of whether I sign into my Firefox account (and thus am actively using the browser on other devices to pickup tabs from). It’s telling me I should care about tabs I’ve closed more than ones I’m actively browsing - and I don’t.
It’s a feature looking for a problem, almost.įirst up, making Firefox View the first thing in the tab strip? That’s a bit entitled. It feels unasked for, and worse: it feels kinda naggy. I’m sure they’ve done research that tells them that (some of) their users are clamouring for a dashboard on their desktop to let them pickup tabs from other devices more easily on desktop.Īnd on that score, Firefox View should be pretty helpful.īut it doesn’t feel helpful. Now, the folks at Mozilla are an awesome bunch. It’s a jab in the eye to remind me that Firefox for Android and iOS exist and, hey, I should be using them.įirefox View feels like a solution in search of a problem Which is presumably the motivation for putting Firefox View so clearly in-view.
On mobile Firefox isn’t even an afterthought: it is no-where in terms of marketshare or (more importantly for this rant) mindshare. Its desktop marketshare continues to plummet year on year, and is now pegged at sub 5% in America - for the one-time rival to Internet Explore. Also: it’s very widely used - Firefox is the browser zeitgeist, innit.īut out in the wider world? There, Firefox fares a lot worse. In FOSS-world, this browser is still a big deal I can pretty much count on a lone hand the number of major Linux distros that don’t ship it as their default browser. This is a dashboard-style overview showing your 3 most recently closed tabs, plus sections to “pickup” tabs you’re gawking at on your other devices, and promotion for more limited-edition “colorways” (no idea, lol).Īs a Linux user I take for granted how omnipresent Firefox is. The unexpected addition (that masquerade as a pinned tab) is for new feature (in testing) called Firefox View. I run beta builds of Firefox on my desktop and noticed something unexpected had recently prepended itself to my browser’s tab bar.
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