Firefox Photon new Overflow menu and Customize mode

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There has been overflow menu under the ‘>>’ icon since a long time in Firefox browser, that appears on toolbar only when your browser window is narrow to display all toolbar icons. Till now to save space on the toolbar or to make it tidy and clutter-free, you used to move unnecessary icons to old hamburger menu or customize window, which not the case in Firefox 57 as the photon menu is no longer customizable.

 

In Photon customize mode:  The overflow menu will be shown for the placement of icons and it has been set as destination instead of hamburger menu.

 

 

You can now pin icons to overflow menu permanently and unpin them later whenever you want.

When you upgrade from Firefox 56 to Firefox 57, which ships Photon, all icons (including webextensions’) that existed on hamburger menu will show up in the overflow menu.

 

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Firefox 57 Photon Onboarding Tour

For users installing Firefox 56 for the first time Mozilla to show onboarding overlay which appears when you click on the fox icon in about:home or new tab page, which contains 5 tours for existing non-photon features such as private browsing, add-ons, Customize, one-click search and Default Browser.

 

Photon team to add additional tours to onboarding overlay in Firefox 57 with which they ship Photon design. These tours will introduce new photon features. Users who don’t want to see the tour will be allowed to hide the tour with a checkbox. At present, you can check the photon onboarding tour in latest Firefox Nightly.

 

 

Do note, currently, Nightly has Photon UI enabled by default, so if you want to see non-Photon designed Firefox 56 tour, you need to flip the preference ‘browser.photon.structure.enabled’ value to false.

 

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