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I feel like anyone on Lemmy who isnt yet using Firefox is the kind of person who isnt going switch now because an article told them they should
edit: it seems I had a stroke (not seriously) while writing this message, and have since edited it so it makes sense
Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Using use daily. Only problem I sometimes have is the inability to upload images, so I just use duckduckgo's browser
Firefox on Android is great. I migrated that first before I actually migrated back to Firefox on desktop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It runs great now. Most importantly, it supports extensions like ublock.
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).
You guys switched away from Firefox?
Switched away to Vivaldi and Opera on desktop years ago due to better design and ability to swap between workspaces. Trying to migrate back to Firefox for ethical reasons. Desktop design still lags behind but privacy is great.
Look at how Vivaldi and Arc do tab management.
How many of these apply to ungoogled-chromium?
A lot of the privacy aspects mentioned in the article would apply but the extra features(like facebook container) would not. The extension support is also an issue since the extensions themselves have their own privacy policies, so if you get any which are hosted on google owned chrome web store all your privacy cautiousness goes down the drain unless you're using a vpn.
Firefox addons also have their own privacy policies but you can simply choose the ones with open source licenses so it should be rather simple to be more protected.
TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.
And no, extensions aren't helping, their UX is so much worse.
That's just a make or break feature for me.
So I tried to find what tab groups are but most of the results are feature request threads so apologies if this isn't what you want.
Waterfox will soon be adding some sort of tab grouping feature akin to what tree-style-tab extension does. Here's the blogpost about it https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-x-treestyletab/
Again I'm not sure if that type of grouping is what you're looking for but if it is consider watching out for the feature release. Longtime waterfox user and haven't had many complaints, Alex has quickly responded to the two issues I made in the github including a feature request that got added within a week (ability to unload tabs with right click).
Not OP, but this is one of my long-time desires too. I'm pretty sure they mean Tab Groups implemented in the way Chrome does natively. Currently no extension on Firefox can do it on the tab bar because no extension can modify the tab bar.
When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it's already on because of Facebook container.)
Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it's been there for quite a while.
Not really, though the functionalities are adjacent and I could see how one would make that mistake. I do indeed use container tabs, and they're a killer feature.
Tab groups are merely organizational, allowing you to reference, store, close, and save groups of tabs en masse; by contrast, container tabs don't do ANY organization at all; you can't group them all together, move them all to a new window as one, bookmark them all, close them all, etc.
Interesting, thanks. Seems like the containers could be expanded into the tab group functionality without too much trouble.
True, and I would love the ability to link them, but I think having them linked by default would be confusing to users who don't need containerization. "Wait, I already logged in to that!"
I would love tab groups
