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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[-] daddyjones@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?

[-] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

It runs great now. Most importantly, it supports extensions like ublock.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Firefox on Android is fine, except they insist upon disabling about:config on the main branch of the browser for some damn stupid reason. You have to use a nightly or beta build to be trusted with your own config that much.

Personally, I ended up switching to the Fennec fork over this.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, it's alright.

You can install an ad blocker in it, so it's automatically better than Chrome.

With that and a few cookie popup removers, it's almost like the web is usable again.

[-] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

with ublock origin plugin, it's amazing

[-] maniac@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Using use daily. Only problem I sometimes have is the inability to upload images, so I just use duckduckgo's browser

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 10 months ago

Firefox on Android is great. I migrated that first before I actually migrated back to Firefox on desktop.

[-] RunAroundDesertYou@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

For me it is great on a smartphone but pretty underwhelming on my android tablet. It doesn't scale websites properly on the larger screen and doesn't support a tab list on top anymore (like Firefox on desktops).

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes. It used to suck, say, 10 years ago. My baseline was Youtube and Reddit (back then, okay?) Could I watch Youtube videos the same way as with Chrome or Android browser? No? Then, not ready. Did i.reddit.com open fine? No? Not ready.

Then it happened. And I switched and it has been wonderful ever since.

The only thing that I miss is the "pull down page to reload" gesture [EDIT: THANK YOU ALL! I'VE ENABLED IT - GREAT!!!!]. ~~Not sure why Firefox hasn't implemented that yet. Patents?~~ And also, when a video is in an iframe, it won't respect the "block autoplay" feature. The rest is dandy.

[-] eatfudd@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Settings > customize. Pull to refresh is there

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You change my life. Thanks!

[-] camelbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I don't really visit reddit anymore, but still end up there sometimes because of a google search. Anyway there is an extension for Firefox Android to always show old Reddit. So you don't have to log in or install the app.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yup. I know all that. But I was talking about back then when Mobile Firefox simply didn't render reddit correctly. As soon as it did, I switched.

[-] cujo255@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

You can enable the refresh gesture in the settings in Firefox

[-] markpaskal@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Its ok but I regularly have to swipe the app away and re open it when it displays a blano screen instead of the website.

[-] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Works mostly great. Addons like uBlock Origin and Super Agent (auto reject all cookies) is great for your mobile experience.

I noticed Youtube site sometimes has weird framerates. But since Google removed premium lite subscription, I refuse to use the Youtube app and just view with uBlock in browser, even with the framerate issues.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's great but they are two, reported, bugs that annoy me.

First, it sometimes gets stuck half way between dark and light mode.

Second, sometimes it gets stuck starting to load a page. The webciew gets stuck but not the chrome. If you switch tabs the same page will appear. If you enter a new page it will never load. A force close fixes it but it's annoying.

Using beta is imperative since it enables add-ons . However the bugs are also in stable.

[-] Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.

[-] Sheldan@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

I am, sometimes there is an issue with videos in Fullscreen, where the video plays just somewhere to the top and off screen, besides that it's fine.

[-] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I recently made the switch. Make sure to install whatever add-ons you need, turn on the "open links in apps" setting, and turn on the "pull to refresh" setting. Import your bookmarks and you can still use the Android password manager. It's not 100% as smooth, but it's pretty close.

[-] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The main problems I have with it now are sometimes there are still issues with loading between browser and apps. Like it might open multiple tabs trying to open an app, and it leaves the app redirect pages open in your tabs list. Additionally, sometimes (like 3% of the time) website scaling doesn't always work, especially on older sites or those made with janky CMS's, and I've also rarely had problems with some dynamic content like inline forms and graphs.

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