Disable auto-hide url bar and pull-to-refresh
The auto-hide URL bar:
- consistently creates problems with fixed position elements such as footers because the window height calculations are broken - consistently conflicts with the pull-to-refresh mechanism when the url bar is on the top and auto-hiding - creates cognitive and physical issues for some users and complicates actions such as refreshing, bookmarking, and navigation - the old about:config pref to disable auto-hiding now doesn't work.
Pull-to-refresh:
- is incredibly hair-trigger and over-sensitive - consistently triggers in unexpected situations such as when scrolling to the top of pages quickly (not even at the top), lists of items such as webmail (eg. gmx.net), and lazy-loaded/lazy-drawn content - is even broken on this support page when trying to scroll the text box up to edit content I've typed in. - risks the loss of user data not retained through refreshes. - there is no UI to disable this and no obvious about:config pref.
Both of these features are making my experience with Firefox preview unbearable and I deeply regret updating from the old android UI. If that isn't a strong enough statement I don't know what is.
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This feedback is for Firefox Preview on Android. I can't see any explicit product attached to this and the category I wanted to file in presented only a white screen.
Admins please feel free to move into an appropriate category.
This post is in the Firefox Preview forum which is the correct place to post.
Pull to refresh will be disabled on the next build.
about:config is not going to be a way to interact with the Firefox UI. Those prefs will not work. There is an existing request to have an option for a static URL bar.
Thanks for the reply. I noticed in the discussion around pull-to-refresh that it's only disabled because there's bugs. Will there be a way to disable it altogether when it's re-enabled in the builds following that?
Hi
I am not aware that if is going to be, but if it is, it will be tested to provide the optimal user experience.
My firefox just updated to this version and have this exact problem. The stupid adress bar keeps autohiding. Had this disabled in previous version and now i cant even disable it because the stupid decision to remove about:config. Why is there even nightly/beta?
Im all for option to disable it simply, but about config is usefull even for non gui things. Like the fact that now instead of opening a intranet subdomain it just searches google. Again on desktop can be disabled. Mobile version, you are out of luck.