Only thing that sucks is needing an account to sync your stuff around. Brave does this through a “sync chain” using a QR code/some big passcode, all without an email account. Not to mention the built-in adblocker, so less extensions are needed.
Been using Firefox on desktop since it was called Firebird. I’ve jumped to different browsers on mobile, but Firefox on mobile has gotten a lot better since the last time I’ve tried it years ago, so I switched back to it recently.
I remember my baseline was youtube back then. If the interface looked terrible, I wasn’t ready to switch. Then it started working as expected and the rest is history.
On my phone Firefox is terrible. It closes the app when I try to watch video full screen. When I reopen Firefox after the video crash all but 1/4 of the screen is black, and it doesn’t respond to clicks on the tabs button to close or open new tabs.
So if it’s a YouTube video, I try to view it in the YouTube app. Firefox will open YouTube to the home page but leaves me to find the video again within the YouTube app.
Click the navigate with GPS button inside the browser, and it opens Google maps to the last destination instead of the address you were looking at in Firefox. That made me late to 2 appointments before I figured out what was happening.
The auto fill is terrible or non-existent. The password management feature got stuck in a loop the other day and I had to force close.
Fuck Firefox. Maybe it’s better on a new phone, but my experience with Firefox has been absolutely dog shit.
I actually uninstalled Firefox a few months ago on my mobile devices because certain websites for my work were not displaying well now thankfully they have been fixed. Installed the Iceraven fork which is amazing.
Switched last night and damn, Firefox has gotten so much better. Used to be the first browser I manually installed around 2004, until Chrome released around 2008 or something. I love that it has extensions on mobile and bookmark/history sync now.
Do you mean the old, unsafe to run on the modern web, browser? Or do you mean edge, which is it’s replacement that’s just chromium with all the trackers pointing to Microsoft servers instead
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