PSA (Android) if Firefox is your default browser, webapp wont install.

MimicJar, 10 months ago

I use both Firefox Beta & Firefox Nightly daily for Voyager (depending on the device) and both have worked great for me. I just tested Stable and it was similarly fine.

Obviously if folks are having performance issues it’s reasonable to test out other browsers (Chrome included), but I’ve never noticed any issues.

rbits, 10 months ago

I want to do this, but is there any way to have links open in Firefox instead of Chrome? I don’t want to use Chrome for links, only for Voyager

DrM, 10 months ago

With all those comments saying it worked for them I want to say that for me as well, using chrome is significantly faster than Firefox on Android. Firefox is laggy and slow, while on chrome it works perfectly fine

Teknikal, 10 months ago

I’m on mull browser which I think is basically Firefox and haven’t had a problem.

throws_lemy, 10 months ago

I don’t see any problem with Mull browser, I can install Voyager and use it 🤔

monty, 10 months ago

Yes for me, Brave works significantly better than Firefox for installed app. I also tried ungoogled chromium, and that seems quite buggy.

wilberfan, 10 months ago

Interesting. I just tested it in Fennec, and it will create an icon on the home screen–but when pressed it opens a TAB in Fennec–that’s not the same thing, is it?

[edit] In Kiwi browser, it opens properly–ie, as it would as an app.

Imhotep, 10 months ago

My problem is l can’t log in on android. Connection error. Works fine on ios

ramble81, 10 months ago

That’s odd. I just went straight to the menu in Firefox and hit install, no problems and it’s my default browser.

honest, 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure this just adds it to your home screen without installing it.

gabriell, 10 months ago

For me it works on both my phone and tablet.

lotanis, 10 months ago

That is most of what “installing” it does. I’ve installed it using Firefox Android and the main difference is that in the task switcher it’s its own tasks rather than just being a tab in the browser.

Feliberto, 10 months ago

That’s weird, I’m self hosting wefwef and using Firefox as my default web browser, I had no trouble with the install button.

astropenguin5, 10 months ago

Can confirm, that’s how I installed it a while ago on Firefox on android

The “add to home screen” button is directly in the 3 dot menu tho which is nice