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

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      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
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      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.

    • Maniac@lemmy.world
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      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
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      10 months ago

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

    • RunAroundDesertYou@lemmy.world
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      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).

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      10 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.

    • Mark@lemmy.ca
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      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.

    • Delusion6903@discuss.online
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      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.

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      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
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      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.

    • Sheldan@mander.xyz
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      10 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
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      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.

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        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.