Firefox for Android does not support Material UI, has a low minimum API level, and generally seems lacking in features. Why is that?

Edit 1: also the downloading function is super unstable, I lost several files due to firefox starting the download then stopping and removing the download for no reason.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    131·
    2 years ago

    Is “generally lacking in features” relative to desktop Firefox or other mobile browsers?

    Also idk why you’d want Material UI. Not even chrome uses it AFAIK.

        • zarenki@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          Not OP, but the one thing that bugs me most is that Firefox Android does not have a tablet UI. Other browsers like Chrome have a tab bar and other desktop-like UI features when run on Android tablets.

          But on phone I’ve never run into a case of wanting a feature that it lacks.

          • jmcs
            4·
            2 years ago

            I’m in the same boat as you, but it seems that Mozilla is finally going to try to improve the tablet UI this year: https://www.androidpolice.com/firefox-tablet-ui-being-developed/

            Edit: I went down the rabbit hole and enabled the tab strip in Firefox nightly and I can confirm that they already implemented a huge chunk of what’s needed for a proper tablet UI and IMO do it much better than Chrome.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’ve never noticed any issues probably because I almost never use a web browser on my tablet, I use it almost exclusively for video streaming. That’s too bad the tablet experience is subpar, maybe file a feature request or vote for an existing one?