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TL;DR
- Mozilla is reportedly engaged on pill UI for Firefox.
- Mozilla’s response to a consumer evaluation advised that the Firefox staff was not at present engaged on pill UI.
- Pill UI is just not a excessive precedence for the corporate, but it surely 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 possible a methods away for the browser, it seems Mozilla has a minimum of been engaged on it.
Earlier than we go any additional, let’s first clarify the confusion surrounding the problem. Earlier this month, a Mozilla consultant responded to a Google Play Retailer consumer evaluation that complained a couple of lack of pill UI. The corporate replied by stating the next:
The Firefox for Android staff would love to take a position extra in optimizing the browser for pill units. Right now, nevertheless, the staff’s focus is directed in the direction of increased precedence objects on the product roadmap. We do hope to revist this with time and sources allowing.
The response means that pill UI is a low precedence for the staff and it’s not targeted on that in the intervening time. Nonetheless, it has been found the Firefox staff 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 concerning the firm’s work on a extra strong 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 strong pill conduct 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 may see an instance of it in motion within the video Hentzschel created under.
As talked about earlier, pill UI for Firefox remains to be possible a methods away. However this data reveals that it is probably not as far-off as beforehand thought.
In associated information, Firefox for Android just lately acquired a bevy of extensions, over 450 to be precise. And extra extensions ought to change into obtainable for Android now {that a} wider consumer base can demand the identical from the extension developer.