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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On my phone Firefox is terrible. It closes the app when I try to watch video full screen. When I reopen Firefox after the video crash all but 1/4 of the screen is black, and it doesn't respond to clicks on the tabs button to close or open new tabs.

So if it's a YouTube video, I try to view it in the YouTube app. Firefox will open YouTube to the home page but leaves me to find the video again within the YouTube app.

Click the navigate with GPS button inside the browser, and it opens Google maps to the last destination instead of the address you were looking at in Firefox. That made me late to 2 appointments before I figured out what was happening.

The auto fill is terrible or non-existent. The password management feature got stuck in a loop the other day and I had to force close.

Fuck Firefox. Maybe it's better on a new phone, but my experience with Firefox has been absolutely dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Firefox on android/iOS not using it's own engine but rather a modded version of chrome or something? I might be wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Only on iOS

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Then I hope you enjoy spyware.

Well… If you're okay with a unique browser ID for each installation or using a browser that contacts a 3rd party analytics company no matter your settings then Firefox is for you. Just fire Wireshark and see for yourself how much snitching Firefox does.

Also Mozilla isn't what people paint it to be, they've shady finances and are now hosting code at Github. Mozilla allegedly stands for a bunch of stuff that is be definition incompatible with hosting code on GitHub as it is

If you're serious about having a decent browser pick Ungoggled Chromium or LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just so that I can keep track of the score, I actually moved from Firefox to DuckDuckGo, because Firefox was considered not respecting privacy. This was not so many years ago.

Are we now saying today that the tables are turned? Or just that both are bad, but one is less bad?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything > Chrome/Chromium

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Everything > Chrome/Chromium

Today.

Previously, it was Firefox > Everything, so that's why I was asking.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ff forks like librewolf are based

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

ff forks like librewolf are based

Heard good things about Librewolf.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Please firefox just add the goddamn custom key bindings

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the ability to be able to Import and Export your bookmarks freely without having to use their website to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What? I just migrated all my Chrome stuff to Firefox without using any website.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

(An additional point I should have mentioned last time, I'm speaking about the mobile version, not the desktop version.)

Last time I checked you need to have one of their accounts to export/import bookmarks and stuff. I would be totally glad to be wrong about this though, if I can export all my stuff from DuckDuckGo and import it into Firefox mobile.

Edit: Five minutes after replying I found this article giving hope for the future of Firefox mobile.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At this point, there's no real clear winner. All browser companies have some sort of shit to them. It's really a matter of which bowl of shit you're willing to tolerate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mozilla is not a browser company, it's a browser non-profit organization (well, the structure is a bit more complicated, but it is ultimately governed by a non-profit organization).