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TL;DR
- Mozilla is reportedly engaged on pill UI for Firefox.
- Mozilla’s response to a person evaluation advised that the Firefox crew was not at present engaged on pill UI.
- Pill UI shouldn’t be a excessive precedence for the corporate, nevertheless it does have a prototype that’s obtainable.
Final week, a number of retailers — together with our personal — reported that pill UI received’t be coming to Firefox anytime quickly. Whereas pill UI remains to be doubtless a methods away for the browser, it seems Mozilla has no less than been engaged on it.
Earlier than we go any additional, let’s first clarify the confusion surrounding the difficulty. Earlier this month, a Mozilla consultant responded to a Google Play Retailer person evaluation that complained a couple of lack of pill UI. The corporate replied by stating the next:
The Firefox for Android crew would love to take a position extra in optimizing the browser for pill units. At the moment, nevertheless, the crew’s focus is directed in direction of larger precedence objects on the product roadmap. We do hope to revist this with time and assets allowing.
The response means that pill UI is a low precedence for the crew and it’s not targeted on that in the meanwhile. Nonetheless, it has been found the Firefox crew has already begun work on pill UI and will resume improvement quickly.
As noticed by net developer Sören Hentzschel, a Mozilla worker commented on Bugzilla two months in the past in regards to the firm’s work on a extra sturdy pill expertise. The worker additionally mentions making extra progress within the first half of 2024.
sadly not a lot progress on this, but. We’ve been revitalizing our app-wide design system, although, and are hoping to make use of that to make extra concrete progress on extra sturdy pill habits in H1 2024.
Along with the remark, Hentzschel additionally found a first-draft prototype on Github that provides a tab bar to the pill model of Firefox. You possibly can see an instance of it in motion within the video Hentzschel created beneath.
As talked about earlier, pill UI for Firefox remains to be doubtless a methods away. However this info exhibits that it might not be as far-off as beforehand thought.
In associated information, Firefox for Android just lately acquired a bevy of extensions, over 450 to be actual. And extra extensions ought to develop into obtainable for Android now {that a} wider person base can demand the identical from the extension developer.
