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Fix address bar in Firefox Beta (78.0.0 beta 1, feeback/feature request)

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Once upon a time, Firefox used to offer a setting that permitted either maintaining visibility of the address bar or auto hiding it. This ability seems to have been removed now. And while the previous versions on Firefox Beta had a fixed address bar (prior to 2nd July 2020), the recent 78.0.0 beta 1 update has the address bar bouncing up an down... 1) it irritates me (I don't like stuff randomly bouncing around my screen) 2) it means I don't get to change the website address when I tap the bottom of the screen but get whatever links present itself on the website site...

There may be people who like an auto-hiding address bar, I don't. It is annoying and distracting. The solution is to make the auto-hide feature an optional setting the way it has been in the past. Let the user choose. In addition, this might then also re-enable my keyboard scroll which miss.

The tab view has changed too... - I'm not sure if I like the change (first impression negative, second view more positive - I do like the close all tabs button, at least that makes life easier) - however this is a different topic and lets see how it develops.

PS: I cannot seem to find the ideal place for feeback/a feature request brwosing this site on a phone... Or is there no dedicated channel??

Once upon a time, Firefox used to offer a setting that permitted either maintaining visibility of the address bar or auto hiding it. This ability seems to have been removed now. And while the previous versions on Firefox Beta had a fixed address bar (prior to 2nd July 2020), the recent 78.0.0 beta 1 update has the address bar bouncing up an down... 1) it irritates me (I don't like stuff randomly bouncing around my screen) 2) it means I don't get to change the website address when I tap the bottom of the screen but get whatever links present itself on the website site... There may be people who like an auto-hiding address bar, I don't. It is annoying and distracting. The solution is to make the auto-hide feature an optional setting the way it has been in the past. Let the user choose. In addition, this might then also re-enable my keyboard scroll which miss. The tab view has changed too... - I'm not sure if I like the change (first impression negative, second view more positive - I do like the close all tabs button, at least that makes life easier) - however this is a different topic and lets see how it develops. PS: I cannot seem to find the ideal place for feeback/a feature request brwosing this site on a phone... Or is there no dedicated channel??

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Hi

With the new Firefox we have made some changes to improve the browsing experience for most people. The toolbar is there when you need it and out of the way when you do not to maximise the browsing area.

I appreciate that this will not suit everyone, and this may be something that we look to improve in future updates.

You can raise a feature request direct to our developers at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/new?assignees=&labels=%F0%9F%8C%9F+feature+request&template=---feature-request.md&title=

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Hi

With the new Firefox we have made some changes to improve the browsing experience for most people. The toolbar is there when you need it and out of the way when you do not to maximise the browsing area.

I appreciate that this will not suit everyone, and this may be something that we look to improve in future updates.

You can raise a feature request direct to our developers at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/new?assignees=&labels=%F0%9F%8C%9F+feature+request&template=---feature-request.md&title=

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Thank you for your response - I'll bookmark the Github link.

The self-hiding address bar continuous to irritate me since posting the orginal post. Maybe even more... I want to open another tab - but I clicked on a random link or minimise Firefox by hitting the "square" on Android. 1.5 lines of additional text don't benefit me when the navigation frustrates me all the time... So an option (as it used to be in the past) would be best to accommodate all preferences.