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Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 25 2020, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-way-back dept.

maxwell demon writes:

Mozilla seems to be hell-bent on alienating users, as they did it again:

An update to the Android flavor of Firefox left fuming punters thinking a bad experimental build had been pushed to their smartphones. In fact, this was a deliberate software release.

A Reg reader yesterday alerted us to an August 20 version bump that was causing so many problems, our tipster thought it was a beta that had gone seriously awry. "To sum it up, on 20th of August, Firefox 79 was unexpectedly forced on a large batch of Firefox 68 Android users without any warning, way to opt out or roll back," our reader reported. "A lot got broken in the process: the user interface, tabs, navigation, add-ons."

Meanwhile, the Google Play store page for the completely free and open-source Firefox has a rash of one-star reviews echoing similar complaints: after the upgrade, little seemed to work as expected.

Among the complaints are a missing back button, frequent browser crashes, and extensions not working.

Sounds like a buggy release for sure. But:

Unfortunately for our source, and the other Firefox for Android users, this isn't a mistaken release or a broken beta build: it's the new version of Firefox for Android, and it's set to hit the UK today, August 25, and the US on the 27th.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 26 2020, @02:35AM (6 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday August 26 2020, @02:35AM (#1041947) Journal
    Because there is no overall "reverse " each track is independent. How hard is it to wrap your head around the concept. Get in bulldozer or hydraulic shovel. There is no single reverse OR forward, just a lever to lock the two controls together. Same as many tractors don't have a single brake - just two independent brake pedals that you can lock together with a pin or lever. Or just step on both of them at the same time - the pedals are side by side for that reason. Stop thinking of cars and trucks:
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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday August 26 2020, @02:58AM (5 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday August 26 2020, @02:58AM (#1041964)

    Swoosh.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:44AM (4 children)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:44AM (#1041979) Journal

      I, for one, am flummoxed! I don't know how they do it

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      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @07:57AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @07:57AM (#1042028)

        Some people have one track minds others have no track minds...

        • (Score: 4, Funny) by PiMuNu on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:18AM (2 children)

          by PiMuNu (3823) on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:18AM (#1042047)

          Some have two track minds that you can lock together with a pin or lever.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:31PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:31PM (#1042081)

            Keep moving forwards, no retreat no surrender.