Edit: I figured it out. The problem wasn’t permissions or Firefox itself, but my launcher. I’m using OLauncher, 'cause I rather like it’s text-lookup interface, but as it doesn’t make use of a traditional “home screen” Firefox won’t allow me to create an entry there.

Apparently, it’s a much-desired feature request

I think it may have been renamed to “Install” in previous versions, but neither appear anymore, and I don’t see any permissions denied so I’m assuming that can’t be it.

A screenshot of my Firefox permissions, showing nothing denied

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Is this a beta version? I have the latest FF mobile but my interface looks different than this…

    EDIT: I found a way to change to it in the “secret settings” menu (tap FF logo a bunch of times in “settings > about firefox”)

    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I wonder if it’s some kind of A/B test or something. Or they got too much negative feedback and rolled it back. I saw this UI for like a week or two on my previous phone but when I got a new device and installed FF it was back to the old UI. Not on beta or nightly channels or anything, just standard releases from Play Store.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      They redesigned the menu a while back, afaik it’s been rolled out in the main release already. But perhaps they have a gradual rollout to gauge bugs and feedback.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Here’s my build info:

      146.0.1 (Build #2016132551), 86bb7f6af6312ba3c0161085f854bcdff68f1a91
GV: 146.0.1-20251217121356
AS: 146.0.2
OS: Android 15