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• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

I've been using Firefox on desktop and mobile exclusively for a number of years now. I will say the experience isn't perfect but it's better than using a browser made by a company that is actively hostile to its users.

It is important to take note that you will experience issues with some websites. For example, https://astro.build/ Try scrolling quickly up and down on this page on Firefox vs Chrome (on mobile).

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What were the main pain points?

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random performance issues

Menu doesn't open in landscape mode

Tab overview page not working consistently - this one is hard to capture right now but what happens is when you have a large amount of tabs open (say over 30), when you hit the tab overview button it doesn't take you to the currently open tab in the list, instead it takes you to the very top. This is not the normal behaviour. If you open and close it a few times it will randomly work properly 1/10 times.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh on Android I thought mostly for Desktop.

Thank you for sharing. I experience more issues with mobile equivalent apps than their desktop counterparts

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry for not clarifying. I tried to on other comments but this is also a post about Firefox Android specifically so I sometimes left that part out.

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