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Get rid of Tablet Mode on a tablet

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Pianista
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I have a 8" Android 10 tablet with FF Focus as a default browser. Half the width of screen is taken by four buttons (back, forward, reload and trash). On the phone I only have one (trash). I'd like to have similarly simple view on the tablet with only one button in front of address bar instead of four, since on a small tablet this creates clutter (often I can't see even a short address, only a domain name fits). Is it possible to achieve?

Thank you in advance for any ideas.

I have a 8" Android 10 tablet with FF Focus as a default browser. Half the width of screen is taken by four buttons (back, forward, reload and trash). On the phone I only have one (trash). I'd like to have similarly simple view on the tablet with only one button in front of address bar instead of four, since on a small tablet this creates clutter (often I can't see even a short address, only a domain name fits). Is it possible to achieve? Thank you in advance for any ideas.
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Paul
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Hi,

It is not possible to change this at present, but perhaps it is a feature we can look to change in a future update. If you want to leave feedback for developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select either Share ideas and feedback… or Submit feedback…, depending on your Firefox version. Alternatively, you can use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

Pianista
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Paul said
Hi, It is not possible to change this at present, but perhaps it is a feature we can look to change in a future update. If you want to leave feedback for developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select either Share ideas and feedback… or Submit feedback…, depending on your Firefox version. Alternatively, you can use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

Thanks for the response, Paul (and sorry for late feedback).

There's no option to send feedback from Firefox Focus. Help menu leads to the Mozilla website, to a page describing what Firefox for Android is. Connect Mozilla is just a community forums for everything Mozilla does, I don't believe that asking there would be of any use. Which means I'm stuck. :)

Thing is, normal Firefox browser for Android doesn't have all this extra buttons that clutter Focus on a 8" screen (maybe it's better on 10", but who might be using a browser in portrait mode on a large tablet). That's why I thought it was possible to change it in Focus, as well. However, Firefox has the problem of keeping cache, cookies and general heaviness, which prevent me from using it on mobile devices as a default browser.

Thank you anyway, even though I'm hugely disappointed with the lack of solution. Cluttering UI is a really weird UX decision for a minimalist browser.