Quick new tab button on mobile

[calalilly]

It'd be helpful to have a new tab button next to the address bar on mobile for easy access.

Currently, opening a new tab requires two clicks - one to open the tab window, and another on the "+" button to open the new tab. This also requires interaction with two different parts of the screen that are far apart from each other (top right vs bottom right), which is hard to do one-handed or in a hurry, especially on larger phones.

I'm a heavy tab user, and the option to have a "+" button directly next to the address bar would make it easier to open a new tab quickly.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: New tab with Ctrl+t in android 

[levlies]

This would be a really nice feature

[drkalo]

A really desired feature that could be activated in settings. On a large tablet I use another browser and the only reason I avoid Firefox is the crippled tab management. A tab bar with a plus (add new tab) button would be a much much appreciated feature. This is present in all other major browsers - Opera, Chrome, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Edge, etc.

[prax_is]

It's crazy to me that I have to click twice to open a tab, none of the other mobile browsers require this. Please consider adding this feature!

[MultiKoopa]

Just switched to Firefox on Android today. I am shocked this isn't a feature. Please add it!

[HeikkiLevanto]

This is my main gripe with Firefox on Android. The "Home" button is totally useless for me, I do all my browsing in new tabs. I would be really glad if there was an option to swap that to a "New Tab" button.

All in all, I love the configurability of Firefox on my desktop Linux, and miss it on my phone.

[madrian]

Navigation is so bad on FF on Android. Really, we need to tap twice to open a new tab?

[connel]

I think the problem with relying on upvotes to prioritise work like this, is that people will just move browsers.

I know this only has around 30 votes atm but it will be impacting way more people than that. It's an awful UI.

[Estournet]

This definitely deserves an upvote. We could replace that Home button with a "New tab" button with a setting (or even an about:config setting if you don't feel too confident with it)

[HeikkiLevanto]

About:config is not available on the standard Android Firefox, so a regular setting would be better.

That said, if the new-tab button was behind about: config, I might well switch to Firefox Beta, just to get it.

[Kamito]

How is this not a feature already? It's crazy to me that they don't have this. Their tab management is severely lacking and makes me want to switch browsers

[fgcblue]

I know bringing up other browsers isn't helpful but coming from chrome mobile, this would be very useful

[boyo]

This would be very useful for users coming from different browsers (Chrome has this) that are used to new tab creation being a fast action.

This would also be consistent with the desktop experience which has a new tab button next to the rightmost tab. Desktop app also has a shortcut (ctrl+t) since this operation is so common.

I can easily see reusing the homepage icon for this. The homepage icon seems to be phasing out in general for browsers (I don't even see it on the desktop app for firefox).

[レオ]

i'd love this so much PLEASE 😞 i just switched to firefox and everything's fine on desktop but this tiny detail on mobile is such a pain...