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Change in back button behavior?

blackdog420420
blackdog420420
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A long press of the back button used to bring up the recent history of the browser, and let me select which link I would like to go back to. Now after an update to firefox 56 I believe. I have to hold the back button to view the list. Requiring two handed operation. If the button is released the menu disappears. How do I restore the previous behaviour?

A long press of the back button used to bring up the recent history of the browser, and let me select which link I would like to go back to. Now after an update to firefox 56 I believe. I have to hold the back button to view the list. Requiring two handed operation. If the button is released the menu disappears. How do I restore the previous behaviour?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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In Firefox 57, I'm seeing something different: after long pressing the back button, a little diagram shows up at the bottom of the screen showing the history of the tab. There is a separate list for the forward button. Interesting that this keeps changing.