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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.

What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.

I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it's going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I'm tired of fixing the task bar icons.

Could've gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)

Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find DuckDuckGo for Android is a decent option, albeit chromium based.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

News Flash:

Every single browser for Android has Chromium under the hood... Including Firefox.

For that reason alone is why I'm using Samsung Internet with AdGuard Content Blocker on my Galaxy A series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Uhh that's not true? Firefox for Android is Gecko based and doesn't use chromium.

Maybe you're confused with iPhones? Firefox for IOS is WebKit based, because that's what apple mandates. That's why it doesn't support extensions. But on android there's no such restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are the developer tools lately? That's the only thing keeping me on Chrome at work. Otherwise, I'm using Firefox on my phone and personal computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer them over chrome's

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome back!

There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.