Firefox is dead to me until they bring back a proper tablet UI. No tab bar is a deal breaker.

Maybe it’s more about the taste, the texture, the subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.

If this doesn’t get stopped, then these rules are pointless. But I guess the same could be said for other recent acquisitions that did go through fine with only minor tweaks.

I also switched to Vivaldi everywhere for this reason. So I can sync tabs on all my devices. I wouldn’t have even been looking for a new browser if not for the poor tablet experience on Android FF. But I’m really happy with Vivaldi now. Over the years I occasionally check in on ol’ Android tablet Firefox, but still no tablet UI since they removed it many years ago (yes, older versions of Android Firefox already had a tab bar).

At some point just seeing the progress bar increase a notch might be enough.

Good thing you only needed 75% of that 1 minute porn video, or you’d have had to wait even longer.

It’s still not a good experience on Android tablets/foldables, just a stretched phone UI and no tab bar.

Main downside for me is that playlists fall out of sync with YouTube, so i can’t really use it alongside Revanced or YouTube in the browser. But i agree, it’s a good app, particularly if one can use it exclusively.

She also limits their use of the web browser app, where they could sign into Facebook?

They still will.

From the thumbnail i thought the phone was wearing a puffy jacket.

ZenFone isn’t small, it’s the same size as a regular iPhone/Pro, not the Mini, so I can’t see it proving anything about small phone demand that couldn’t equally be applied to a regular iPhone or S23 etc. It also isn’t discontinued.

It’s not so surprising they all have +6" phones, since there are no smaller options available, irrespective of price.

Same experience when i was using the Jelly 2, people loved it when i pulled it out to pay with NFC.

As a UX designer, EU please save us from Adobe!

But there is the possibility they could capture almost the whole small phone market, instead of competing against titans for a piece of the big phone market. I also don’t see how this is not still a big market that is being ignored. So many random trash phones that must be getting pitiful sales numbers, but they can’t make anything in a small size, like they used to do in huge numbers just half a decade ago?

I get that the Mini might not reach numbers acceptable for Apple, but for some random Android manufacturers, those same numbers would be huge, and they have basically no competition right now. The first company to offer something decent in that size bracket would have that whole market to themselves.

But no, i think they all just dream that they might beat Google and Samsung for the same 6.3-6.8" market and be rich.

I agree with everything you wrote, except as a designer I wanted to point out that the lack of scope limitation is not usually due to design, but rather product and marketing who drive new features, because their job is to increase new customers, and improving life for existing customers is a far second – only so far as potential new customers may be impacted (reviews, comparisons with competitors, or churn). So long as they can mostly keep existing customers they will always fight against spending development time on improving their experience, when they could add a new point to the feature list for marketing.

The issue is the drive for infinite growth is counter to a human-usable quality-focused UX (with a focused scope and focused target audience).

I actually pay for Premium at the moment, but still would need to sit through baked in sponsored messages, and YouTube Shorts or other internal YouTube big banner service advertisements. So i still have uBlock (and sponsor block) anyway to remove that stuff. At which point… Why am i paying for Premium again? They made their site awful to use regardless of if you pay, unless you use adblocking and other extensions.

I get it, and i guess the fault is on Google for not providing an alternative for such apps. Still a hack though, because such things don’t belong in the user’s notifications.

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