Mozilla to ship Firefox 89 with a redesigned interface, Proton on June 01. The organization has decided to hide the compact density option for new users and remove the Page Actions menu from the address bar as part of the redesign.
According to beta release notes, the new Proton UI brings
- floating tabs, new icons, streamlined menus,
- updated info bar, and modals,
- lighter iconography, a refined color palette,
- and more consistent styling throughout and simplified browser Chrome and toolbar.
Every major UI change may drop some features. Adapting to UI change isn’t easy and doesn’t happen overnight.
Some of the users didn’t like Firefox interfaces such as Australis, Photon, this can also happen with the upcoming Proton.
The company can’t please everyone, but, some of you may miss the Page Actions Menu badly with Firefox 89 release.
RIP Page Actions Menu
Mozilla introduced the Page Actions menu with Firefox 57.
Clicking on the three-dot icon in the address bar shows up various options to share content.
You can save the page to the Pocket, Pin a tab, take a screenshot (this was moved to toolbar now), copy or email a link, share content via various Windows 10 apps.
The Page Actions Menu has been removed in Firefox 89 beta and Nightly 90 versions. The change could reflect in the release.
One of the Firefox channel handles on Twitter confirmed, this was part of the redesign.
“The Page actions menu was removed in our redesign and all its items moved to other places in the interfaces,” Mozilla said.
Mozilla may have hinted us this happening before by removing Screenshots from the Page Action menu. Now the menu itself was gone.
You can find Screenshots, Email links, and Save page options in Customize dialog.
Depending upon your requirement, drag the necessary items to the toolbar.
If you’ve used items in Page Actions Menu in Firefox, then you may miss it. Are you? Let us know in the comments below.
why did you remove page action menu add it back
I didnt do that someone havking the system
Please stop doing unpleasant things to the UI on purpose. There is no reason to make these changes.
Bring back page actions please.
Where do I find this (You can find Screenshots, Email links, and Save page options in Customize dialog) in the new Firefox? I would really like to be able to email links quickly, (like page actions).
Yet another idiotic move by Mozilla that NOBODY wanted!
Of course users want all the commands available in a single, easy-to-find drop-down menu spread all over the place so they’re no longer centralized, and we have to search all over the place for them.
In case you can’t tell, that’s bitter sarcasm.
And they made it worse in v90.
In v89, you could get the page actions menu back just by going to about:config and typing Proton in the filter bar at the top, and disabling everything that came up with PROTON in it. Bam! Everything back to normal; no more headaches from Mozilla designers being prima donnas.
But no, not even that works!
“The Page actions menu was removed in our redesign and all its items moved to other places in the interfaces,” Mozilla said.
Well, not all, I’ve been unable to find Copy Link anywhere, and had to resort to installing an extension. Copying from the address bar via right-click gives different results if you’ve disabled URL encoding (for copying foreign language URLs for example). The Copy Link button was very useful.