Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.
What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.
I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I’m tired of fixing the task bar icons.
Could’ve gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)
Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.
The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch.
Trying to read basically any news article on your phone without an ad blocker is a nearly impossible task these days.
The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch why I’ll never switch, unless I have a gun pointed at my head.
@deersindal I have a paid lifetime subscription to Adguard, so ads aren’t a thing on my phone at all, for pretty much any app.
Same here. I’ve never had an issue with Adguard or any reason not to trust it but because it’s a small Russian company dealing with encryption I don’t feel comfortable openly recommending it. I personally think it’s great and run it everywhere.
@MaxHardwood TIL. Never thought about where Adguard is written.
You can use adblock with chrome on android too.
Go to settings > privacy and security > use secure dns > and enter custom dns provider from adguard or nextdns or whatever you like.
Adguard
https://dns.adguard-dns.com/dns-query
Nextdns
I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.
Same. Only thing I miss is being able to set a predefined selection of websites to open at start. As far as I can tell, the current version only has the option to reopen tabs from last session.
Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it’s nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I’m using Privacy Browser on Android, and it’s great, bit I’d rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it’s still a problem
I didn’t know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That’s why my voyager app keep reloading some images.
Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install ‘Stop Auto Reload’ addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn’t reload the images.
Honestly, it’s hard to say. I’m using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it’s ahead of all the other alternatives I’ve tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).
You don’t get Google suggestions and that’s moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.
You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go
i’ve been having issues with autofilling credentials from saved passwords on firefox android
News Flash:
Every single browser for Android has Chromium under the hood… Including Firefox.
For that reason alone is why I’m using Samsung Internet with AdGuard Content Blocker on my Galaxy A series.
Uhh that’s not true? Firefox for Android is Gecko based and doesn’t use chromium.
Maybe you’re confused with iPhones? Firefox for IOS is WebKit based, because that’s what apple mandates. That’s why it doesn’t support extensions. But on android there’s no such restrictions.
No. I’m not sure where you’ve gotten your information from, but that is incorrect. Firefox on my Android phone shows that it’s the Gecko engine:
Like the other commenter mentioned, you’re probably thinking of iOS where every browser is WebKit under the hood.
Firefox is open source, so if you still feel that you are correct in your assumption, and you can view it here - there is no Chromium code. Also, chrome specific URLs don’t work (eg chrome://flags) which would be in a Chromium based browser such as Brave.
Weirdly I haven’t had this issue much yet. I have had issued where the tab would kinda / break in sense that the tab would become useless and nothing can be done (eg. It will just show blank or some other tabs content)
Maybe try whitelisting Firefox from battery optimisation. It should help as some OEMs do aggressive background kill for apps.
Yeah I tried that but no luck. I’ve seen suggesions it relates to RAM management but there’s no settings available for that.
Good. Let’s all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.
Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!
