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Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by izacus »

iamrohitbanga wrote: post #231
JaRail wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you mean? I wasn't aware the assistant really did anything with Chrome. Certainly it renders some search results using the android webview. But otherwise, it launches any pages you click in whatever browser you want. Inside of Chrome, what assistant features are there? The voice recognition is part of the keyboard so all apps have that. Genuinely not sure what you're referring to.

Hmm I see. I think I was getting confused since I searched for browser app in settings and ended up setting browser app as well as Voice and Assist app as Firefox as they are in the same submenu. If I choose Voice and Assist app as Firefox instead of Google then active edge, Ok Google does not work. May be I could just try setting browser app to firefox. Let me give this combination a try for a few days. Browser is f…

Yeah, the assist app and default browser aren't really related settings.

"Assist app" settings determines which app can respond to assistant invocations (ok google, long press home, squeezing the phone...) and grants special assistant privileges to app.

Default browser is another setting :)

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by piyush_soni »

vmarsy wrote: post #206
piyush_soni wrote: post #93

Feedback : When you are making a new Firefox for Android, please fix this small problem but personally a big annoyance : I should not need to open a whole new page before trying to open a new tab. Just add a plus button next to the address bar, that's it. Currently the workflow just disturbs me in all Firefox browsers for mobile - you have to click the tabs button, then the 'Plus' button (or click the settings menu a…

I'm confused about your comment, just was pleasantly surpised by testing this new Firefox Preview, that only one click was required to open a new tab: 1) Tap the tabs button 2) You're already on the new tab, so either a) Search in the search bar: this opens your search results in this current new-tab (you can also type an address there and search see your recent history) b) Click on one of the links saved in a "Colle…

Thanks. For the old Firefox for Android that's not the case, but for the new one that's an improvement (I actually didn't notice in my quick stint with it). However, they can further improve it by having the focus on the address/search bar by default. It's currently still two taps before I can start typing. Having to tap two times is my major annoyance with almost all the mobile browsers.

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Post by mncolinlee »

lucideer wrote: post #222
Certhas wrote: post #190

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Until it's provided I would assume that it's a gross misrepresentation/exaggeration.

Other than putting Google Analytics on all Mozilla properties as sibling commenters have already mentioned (link to info on that here [0]), there is also the following: - as I mentioned in another comment, Firefox Preview comes with Google as a default search engine (not a huge issue) and with "search suggestions" enabled by default (which sends everything you ever type to Google). - Even if you disable search sugges…

Safe Browsing in Firefox is nothing more than a flat list of malware-laden sites your browser downloads. It compares your current site against the list to warn you if a match occurs. It does nothing else whatsoever. Even the most basic search of technical details would show that. Firefox code is also open to be read.

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Post by zmmmmm »

jdc wrote: post #286
zmmmmm wrote: post #267

I keep using Opera because of a few small affordances that any browser could implement (and some do, but only Opera does all of them). The main one is text-reflow on zoom. It seems so ridiculous that I have to either stare at microscopic text or pan back and forwards just to be able to read things. Surely actually reading the contents of pages is a primary feature of a browser? The other one I just can't understand i…

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3262

Thanks!

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by mncolinlee »

metalliqaz wrote: post #114
throwupaway123 wrote: post #102

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This is still a preview, it's nowhere near a finished product. Extensions come after MVP https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...

(minimum viable product) Isn't it strange that the big flash announcement comes before MVP?

This release is what they termed MVP. Everything after it is post-MVP. It means minimum viable product. In my personal opinion, a lot more functionality was included than what most would call an MVP.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by option_greek »

JaRail wrote: post #208
pcwalton wrote: post #182

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Actively being worked on at the moment.

I feel like this is a running joke at this point. I've been waiting on this since getting a mbp in 2003. I swear it has been under development the whole time. Or, at worse, blocked by rendering engine updates. People always seem hopeful the next major rendering update will make it usable. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789906 Bug opened seven years ago. It looks like the only real updates in the last ye…

I think at this point all the mac issues can only be solved if someone does a kickstarter specifically for mac and hires a bunch of developers and contributes the resulting code to upstream.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by mncolinlee »

owaislone wrote: post #244
mncolinlee wrote: post #63

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> Only thing I miss is the ability to open tabs in background. Long press the link.

I meant send links from any app to firefox and switch to firefox at a later time to find them ready to be read.

I didn't know about that feature. Feel free to request it on GitHub.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by matz1 »

Qub3d wrote: post #167
rando9297 wrote: post #123

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Last time I checked, Raymond Hill's website didn't even have a donation button. This is an incredibly generous stance for him to take but if he doesn't want money himself maybe he could collect funds for a charity. I really feel I owe someone for this software.

Raymond outlines his reasons for refusing donations on the ublock wiki, if anyone is curious: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-... One thing he (rightfully) points out is that the real power of ad-blocking solutions comes from the community-maintained blocking lists. In theory one could manually block every url they run across, but in practice we can use these tools (or a tool like pi-hole)…

Can't he just accept donations while also maintaining the same 'no expectation' attitude ?

Isn't it what donation is ?

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by mncolinlee »

dbtx wrote: post #254
silverwind wrote: post #229

Why does the link to the preview release go through a tracking site and not directly to the Play Store?

Why did I hope that app.adjust.com was somewhere that I could get the .apk without having anything to do with the Play Store?

You can grab APKs on GitHub, but you'll need to update manually if you do so. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases/tag/v1.0.0
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