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Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?
It runs great now. Most importantly, it supports extensions like ublock.
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.
with ublock origin plugin, it's amazing
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.
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.
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.
It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.
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).
Firefox on Android is great. I migrated that first before I actually migrated back to Firefox on desktop.
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.
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.
Settings > customize. Pull to refresh is there
You change my life. Thanks!
You can enable the refresh gesture in the settings in Firefox
Thanks!
I don't really visit reddit anymore, but still end up there sometimes because of a google search. Anyway there is an extension for Firefox Android to always show old Reddit. So you don't have to log in or install the app.
Yup. I know all that. But I was talking about back then when Mobile Firefox simply didn't render reddit correctly. As soon as it did, I switched.
Using use daily. Only problem I sometimes have is the inability to upload images, so I just use duckduckgo's browser
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.