The old Firefox browser for Android had a library of thousands of extensions, but the new browser offers only nine. Missing extensionsĪnother common complaint from long-term Firefox users is that their favorite browser add-ons have gone missing. The spokesperson said Mozilla is “listening closely to user feedback and making adjustments to meet their needs based on new information,” which sounds like a U-turn may be on the cards. “Bookmark folders are now randomly mixed up with other individual bookmarks, so good luck finding anything if you had hundreds of favorited pages,” writes another one-star reviewer on the Google Play Store.ĭefending its decision to de-emphasize bookmarks, a Mozilla spokesperson said: “During our research, we found that most mobile users wanted a less cluttered home screen, and they also more often interacted with top sites and open tabs, and less often with bookmarks.”
The Collections feature lets you group saved sites into categories, such as work, recipes etc, but at first blush it’s difficult to work out what the benefit of this is over the bookmarks folders that most users would have spent years curating. Bookmarks are now shunted into the settings menu, with Mozilla introducing a new bookmarks-like feature called Collections. Many others are annoyed that they can no longer access their bookmarks from the new tab screen. The removal of the back button is a common complaint, with users divided over the decision to move the address bar down to the bottom of the screen by default, although it can be easily switched back to the top. The new user interface is also causing angst amongst Firefox’s loyal users.
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