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byklipclop ( 6724090 ) writes:
I always find it interesting that users who consume free IT services and software have such petty complaints. Maybe start contributing to the ecosystem/community instead of downloading updates the day of and providing useless feedback and ratings.
bylgw ( 121541 ) writes:
I always find it interesting that users who consume free IT services and software have such petty complaints.
I would happily pay for a good browser! And that's not hypothetical. I still have my receipt/license for Netscape Navigator.
And these aren't petty complaints: a browser without a back button is fundamentally broken.
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byklipclop ( 6724090 ) writes:
I use FF mobile and had no idea a back button was available. (You can just use your phones back button) Petty complaints by freeloaders I tell you!
bylgw ( 121541 ) writes:
My phone's back button isn't even displayed by default. It is not a place on the screen where I can click, without doing some dance to bring it up. Also, why are you simping for Firefox? What an odd thing to lust over.
bymodomario ( 2691091 ) writes:
How do you go back in any other app then? Hell if you don't use gestures but do use a nav bar that's too cumbersome to bring up then how do you close em for that matter? And what are you "simping" for since chrome doesn't have it either to my knowledge?
bylgw ( 121541 ) writes:
The lack of a fixed back button on the phone just sucks. I alwats have to make random gestures until it appears, hoping I don't accidentally click on something. I just want a browser with a basic, non-fucked UI.
bythegreatbob ( 693104 ) writes:
Having more than one way of accessing a function in a program is usually not a bad thing (there are limits to this, of course), especially when one of those ways is universal across devices with varying input schemes. While outdated and bordering on esoteric, take Amazon FirePhone for example - no back button, hard or soft. Gestures only, unless you stuff CM on it, as I did. Also allows for some degree of redundancy - physical buttons wear out, and the location of soft buttons near the edge of a touch scree
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bygbjbaanb ( 229885 ) writes:
Its worse than that on FF mobile now, you can pin sites to the home screen (like the desktop version) and click them, it works as expected - opens a tab with that page in it. you can use the back button and go back to the home screen as expected. You can click the pinned sites icons and open new tabs, etc.
only the newly opened tabs stay open, back button takes you to the home screen. I only just realised this, by noticing I had 20 tabs open all with the same few sites I visit on mobile.
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