Some feedback: If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default. As far as I can this one does not block ads at all. Good initial experience but please block ads.
it already blocks trackers by default
Reinventing Firefox for Android
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Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#82Some feedback: If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default. As far as I can this one does not block ads at all. Good initial experience but please block ads.
No, these are not the same and oughtn't be conflated. I'm perfectly happy seeing ads that aren't targeted to me personally based on my browsing history.
Ads on, say, Stack Overflow or HN or whatever, that target nerds ("great hosting!", "3d printing tech!", "legos!") would be perfectly doable without tracking each of us personally.
Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#83Now if they could just fix Firefox Mobile's abysmal tab management. Chrome Mobile's tab screen is a stack of pages in the Z-axis with the one closest to the user being the most recent tab and so on. Firefox Mobile's is a grid with the number of rows and columns being variable depending on screen dimensions. Figuring out which ones you opened in what order is not immediately apparent. It also suffers from the frankly amateur Android programming mistake of varying the swipe limits directly with the width of the screen, so going from portrait to landscape on a 19.5:9 phone screen means dismissing a tab suddenly requires you to swipe over twice as far as it does in portrait mode.
More than once I've found myself saying "oh my god, go away!" after trying and failing three times to swipe an unwanted tab away before remembering I have to drag the damn thing halfway to Timbuktu to dismiss it.
Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#84I have been using Firefox on Android since 2013. It's been constantly improving. I am so glad that it exists so that I am not forced to use a browser (Chrome) that doesn't respect me or my privacy and has every incentive to fuck me over.
Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#85>At Firefox
You mean, at Mozilla.
This whole branding campaign to shove everything under the "Firefox" umbrella is silly.
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#86I've been using Firefox on Android for about a year now, and it is great, except one major problem. Google news site (news.google.com). News I believe uses my entire phone's RAM and starts swapping (I am totally guessing, does Android use swap?) because the app will become unresponsive for about 2 full minutes while the page is rendering. Closing and re-opening a tab in this state actually breaks the app FYI (all oth…
Memory management on Android is awful. My music player routinely gets killed; I've tried all options available to me to prevent this.. It's just too difficult for Android to work out "you're listening to music, even though there's no visible ui, so I won't kill it". I understand that there is a whitelist of music apps which don't get killed - so intractable is this problem - but the one I use (Rocket Player) isn't on it.
Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#87Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does. (uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
Indeed, it's very disappointing to see such a long article without any mention of their plans for addons. It isn't even clear that they're not going to replace Android Firefox with Fenix before getting extensions working. As far I know this issue is the most recent source of information: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574 It says «We are currently finalizing the transition plan».
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Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#88Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does. (uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
It's a preview release. Addons are coming as well as ad blocking. It's not the same thing, but the built-in tracking protection incidentally blocks a portion of ads.
That's good to hear. Can you point to where Mozilla says they will support addons and ad blocking in Fenix?
Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The target of a preview is not people expecting it to be feature complete, so no, you're not the target.
Tell me how am I supposed to test add-ons on this Firefox as a developer before the release then. Edit : And again, most of my work if not all related to Firefox, I do on the Nightly build. I expect things to break, but this preview ( of which there have been builds for a while already ) is a non-starter.
Why are you assuming that addons will be added in the GA release, and not some version prior to the GA release?
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#90I can't find any info about Sync (especially with my own back-end) which is one of the main reasons I'm using Firefox everywhere.
Sync works fine, at least for bookmarks and history, but I cannot choose what to sync, the check boxes are greyed out: https://i.imgur.com/atDU75z.png
It's not implemented yet. Coming soon.