Firefox 80 Resurrects the Back Button on Android

Sep. 4, 2020

Mozilla started rolling outFirefox 79or ‘Firefox Daylight’ as they call it, in late July andmade it widely availablelast month. The Firefox community apparently didn’t like the update and started to flood the app’s reviews with 1-star ratings. The most common complaints among users are thelack of a dedicated back button and missing extensions. Mozilla has addressed the former with the latest Firefox 80 update.

With Firefox 80, you have the beloved back button, which can also be used to view the tab history upon a long-press. Take a look at the official changelog below, although other features are already part of Firefox 79:

In a separateblog post, Mozilla has provided an update on the state of extensions in Firefox Daylight. According to Mozilla’s Caitlin Neiman, the company had to launch the redesigned Firefox ‘in order to get the new browser to users as soon as possible’. Neiman also says the step was necessary to ‘limit resources needed to maintain two different Firefox for Android applications’.

Mozillapromises to bring more recommended add-ons in the coming weeks. For now, the browser supports just nine popular extensions. The company is also working to let users install extensions directly from the Firefox add-ons website.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.