Firefox 94 for mobile features new useful features such as 'group tabs by topic' and 'automatically organize abandoned tabs'



The mobile version of the web browser Firefox 94 released by Mozilla on November 2, 2021 includes 'Return to last opened tab', 'Show recently saved bookmarks in home', and 'Recently searched tabs'. Introducing features that allow you to easily restart interrupted browsing, such as 'Group by topic.'

Firefox brings you a new homepage making it easier to jump back in to the stuff you care about on your mobile devices

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/firefox-brings-you-a-new-homepage/

Firefox 94 for iOS and Android adds new features for bookmarks and tabs | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/firefox-94-for-ios-and-android-adds-new-features-for-bookmarks-and-tabs/

In a blog post on November 2, Mozilla said, 'Today we are launching a new Firefox home page on Android and iOS, which is designed for online interaction on the go, which is constantly interrupted by everyday life.' And introduces the new features added in Firefox 94 for mobile. With new features, the mobile experience on the go is simply summarized on the Firefox home screen, allowing you to quickly and intuitively restart interrupted browsing at halfway timings.

The new features announced by Mozilla are:

◆ Return to the last opened tab
It's not uncommon for an errand to interrupt you while you're reading an article. In Firefox 94 for mobile, an item called 'Jump back in' has been added to the home screen, and you can now select whether to return to the last open tab or search for a new page on the home screen.



◆ Display recently saved bookmarks on the home screen
When I find a website that I'm interested in while browsing, I often say, 'I don't have time to read it now, but I just bookmark it for later reading.' In the past, I used to search for websites from bookmarks and browser history each time I read them back later, but a new 'Recently Saved Bookmarks' has been added to the Firefox 94 home screen, and the website can be accessed immediately from the home screen. You can now open it. For users who share an account with the desktop version of Firefox, bookmarks saved in the desktop version will also be added to the home screen of the mobile version of Firefox.

◆ Organize tabs opened in recent searches by topic
When you're digging into a particular topic, such as 'Travel Destination Candidates' or 'Reputation for New Devices You Want to Buy,' you may find yourself opening a bunch of tabs. Finding the topic you're looking for in a chaotic stack of tabs can be a hassle, but Firefox 94 for Android has added a new feature that groups open tabs by topic and makes them accessible from the home screen. Tab grouping will be maintained for 14 days, and it seems that the grouping will be canceled after more days. Mozilla states that this feature has not been added to the iOS version and is only available on the Android version.



◆ Automatically organize tabs that have been left for a long time
Mobile browsers tend to keep a large number of tabs open, and it's not uncommon to find that the total number of tabs is 100 or more, but the large number of tabs that remain open is psychologically overwhelming. It will end up. Therefore, in Firefox 94 for mobile, tabs that have not been accessed for 14 days will be moved to 'inactive state' to prevent browser tabs from becoming cluttered.

◆ Customize your Pocket feed

Pocket , a web page management tool operated by Mozilla, can also be used to view pages saved in the desktop version of Firefox on the mobile version of Firefox. In the new Android version of Firefox 94, a user-requested 'feature to customize Pocket articles for each area of interest' has been added. Although iOS users can continue to use Pocket, the customization function is not available at the time of article creation.



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