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by k8svet 793 days ago
I can't help myself...

Firefox View poorly duplicates functionality found in other places of the browser already. Meanwhile, the rest of the product just languishes.

Here's a fun thought: You have Firefox Android setup to sync with your Mozilla account. You have made the questionable decision to have 300 tabs loaded into that session. You made further questionable decisions to place your phone on a precipice about a ceramic tile floor. Cut to a few hours later, you're performing "new Android phone setup".

How do you recover those tabs? (No no no, there's three different ways of viewing Synced Tabs in Firefox Desktop and none of them let you bulk save as bookmarks; and no, Firefox for Android can't replicate them over or help you at all either). The answer, after 6 years of users asking about this, is to enable internal debug features and run a user script from some Gist on GitHub. .... seriously.

Meanwhile in addition to the new, disjoint Firefox View, there's the disjoint hodge-podge of functionality duplicated between the sidebar, library view, and Firefox Account "menu".

Firefox's product development and vision is one of the most infuriating of any product, open source or otherwise, that I use.

Also, the new Firefox View has the same completely BAFFLING padding that the settings and addon pages have expect its /not even consistent/!!? Just shrink the browser window and watch as 90% of websites out their properly adapt and adjust, but nope! not Firefox's own internal "new" pages.

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you can "open all tabs from other device here" to bring all tabs from your mobile to your PC