Although the absence of a global menubar in GNOME by default did influence this particular decision, the main factor was the increasing difficulty to maintain the firefox patch that enabled the feature. The patch was quite large (several thousands LOC) and heavily relied on internal APIs that have been changing significantly in the past few releases.
I appreciate this is a functional regression for users of Unity and other desktop environments with a global menu bar, but this is a trade- off that had to be made to ensure timely updates for future firefox releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890049 Title: global menu bar no longer supported after 20.04 upgrade Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: 1) version: 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500 2) Ubuntu Release : Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 3) What I expected to happen: In Unity DE. menu bars are integrated with title bar or top panel when maximized 4) What happened instead: Menu bar doesn't integrate. Takes too much vertical space. Problematic because I have made a jump to wide screens around 2012. I guess decision makers at ubuntu still enjoy 4:3 screens and thus don't see the value in DEs that optimize vertical space. But it would be really nice to have a hand here. ---- The current workaround is to disable the menu bar, which leaves me at the mercy of the hamburger menu. The hamburger menu is an implant from old Mobile App Design. But nowadays even Mobile App UX designers decry the Hamburger menu and in a desktop it makes little sense. Firefox is a good example because the menu bar has sections like History which are a lot richer than what's available to be accessed from the hamburger menu. It's really just not possible to have as many menu options and categories as a menu bar in a hamburger menu. And access is less efficient -> more mouse movement -> more mouse clicks. So I have to choose between wasting space unnecessarily with a menu bar that does not integrate with the top panel OR losing a lot of access to options and settings by removing the menu bar and using the hamburger menu instead. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1890049/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
