What's wrong with Firefox???
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Mostly can't sign in to lemmy.world for some reason but otherwise I'd some change for a bit.
I've signed in a few times to lemmy.world using Firefox over the last week.
Sorry for being the annoying "not for me" guy. ;-)
That's odd; I could sign in with lemmy.dbzer0.com without issue.
Maybe it's an issue with the beta? Have you tried regular FireFox?
I'm using Firefox Nightly with zero issues here. Love being able to use any addon I want on my phone.
Maybe try Jerboa for Lemmy?
You're probably gonna have to tell us what it is that you want and what it is that you don't like about Firefox Beta.
Firefox non-beta
Mull is a Firefox hardened browser that works perfectly out of the box.
I couldn't download files from a site I use because they apparently remove the referral information from requests even when you're navigating inside the same site (doesn't bring much privacy because anyone looking at the logs of that site can see the same IP moving from one page to the other).
Still a good browser, but like other projects that try to bring the Tor Browser changes to the normal web, it can break a few things.
I find Kiwi Browser essential. It's one of the only ones that you can install chrome extensions onto.
Using Kiwi because it supports Twitter control panel and old reddit redirect extensions.
What kind of features are you looking for? I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary mobile browser for a while now and have been very happy with it.
Iceraven. Its based on Firefox. I don't like some of the UX peculiarities of Firefox but it works alright.
Ohh will check it out. it seems to fit my bill a bit.
IMO Samsung Internet is one of the best Android browsers out there. Give it a try!
I think it offers alot of great features if you use a samsung phone. However the adblockers are not as good as ublock on firefox!
Therfeore I use both!!
It's not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
Dark Mode for websites is a wonderful feature! I have a Note20U so the note access is awesome. The font seems to also render better than Firefox.
However, there are sites I can not stop ads on when using SI. Also no way to filter elements out. These are cases when I usually prefer Firefox.
Librewolf on desktop, Mull on android, doesnt matter on iOS
I think brave is pretty alright. Yes the crypto stuff is hella cringe and its chromium based but it works like charm.
Don't forget that the browser has access to all of the data that you see on your display and everything you type in. All of it. So he careful who you trust. Is it a community software, is it non-profit, is it for profit, does it have a sustainable funding / business model.
What's wrong with FF beta?
iceraven
Ungoogled chromium on desktop, Bromite on android
Even though I'm quite eager to try new softwares, for browser I usually return back to Firefox or brave browser.
Only recently when I tried Vivaldi browser, I don't feel the urge to return to Firefox/brave.
I use normal firefox and firefox clear/klar as the default browser(I really like firefox clear)
It's not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it's chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
It's worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don't test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla's web engine instead of Google's
there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support
I'd love some examples!
Understandable! I know Firefox nightly and fennec, the f-droid compiled version of Firefox both have the ability to use any Firefox extensions, though setting it up is a little more work than one might need to expect. You have to first create an extension group or category on desktop (I dont remember exactly what Firefox calls it) and then you can load that group of extensions as a custom supported list of extensions on your mobile devices. Its not very technical, just requires setting up the group on your desktop first.
There may be other forks that have full extension support, and I'm kinda thinking there are, but those are the two I'm thinking of off the top of my head. But if you look up the forks of Firefox for android/mobile, I'd guess that most or all of them probably have extension support in the same way.
Otherwise, the official app has a short list of extensions that mozilla has tested that you can enable or disable, including ublock origin :)
Hope this helps!
Edit: the extension groups are referred to as " collections" so thats the option you'd be looking for on desktop. Here's a handy link on setting it up from Mozilla :) it should be the same no matter which version/fork of firefox you're looking to enable custom extensions on!
Unfortunately Brave's own blocking engine isn't capable to block as much as uBlock Origin, which Firefox supports on Android. But then Firefox might not work well on all sites... it's a trade-off. Firefox works on the sites I use though, so that's what I've been using.
Til about mobile extensions on Firefox mobile
And we can create our own custom extension list which then allows us to use more than just the short list of add-ons enabled by default:
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-now-supports-custom-add-on-collections/
Not every extension works well on mobile though, but many do. I have a few for youtube, twitter, reddit, etc.
It's worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don't test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla's web engine instead of Google's
I like Brave on my Android phone, too. I use the browser and its search engine (which is OK, DDG and Bing gets me better / different results).
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