A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

Post by input_sh » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

squiggleblaz wrote: post #12

BadOakOx wrote: post #8

I have Firefox Preview installed on my phone and it is set as my default browser, but I still keep the original Firefox for Android, because: - Preview is missing support for Add-ons. This was a huge advantage of Firefox for Android (for me this means, that I cannot use uBlock.. the built-in ad blocker is good, but uBlock is better) - There are limited settings available in Preview. (e.g. what I am missing a "downloa…

I also have Firefox Preview installed on my phone. It's set as default but I basically don't use it, because: * Preview lacks support for ad blocking. * For some reason, every time I open a link in Firefox Preview, it goes into "Private" mode and there's no option to stop that from happening. I think it used to ask me, and one time I said "Private" and ever since then it's been in private mode - it asked me every tim…

Post by squiggleblaz » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:33 AM UTC

myrion wrote: post #15

severine wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because millions of people are using it and can't change easily? It's not that I don't get your point, but the amount of Android 4.x that I encounter is really big, maybe it's my humble environment, but still.

All of the 4.x versions together make up just over 10% of Androids used, according to Google. Pretty much every single 5.x version has a bigger share. It's reasonable to give that up if it makes development easier / the end result more secure, imo. Edited to ask: why is switching not easy? Even cheap phones come with far newer versions these days...

Post by ekianjo » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:34 AM UTC

severine wrote: post #6

lol768 wrote: post #3

Given https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5315 and https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5630 are still open, does this represent a regression in supported functionality for nightly users?

Definitely. I don't understand how Mozilla doesn't understand that extensions, particularly content blocking (and specifically Ublock Origin) are definitional of what Firefox is and should be.

Post by ohazi » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

jonny383 wrote: post #9

If Firefox pushes this before implementing support for extensions (namely uBlock or other ad-blocking / privacy extensions) then Firefox is well and truly toast on Android. Correct me if I am wrong but the only reason non-tech people use Firefox on Android is to block ads. Perhaps this is a push from Mozilla to try and get some search revenue flowing again?

Post by geek-advised » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

ohazi wrote: post #20

geek-advised wrote: post #16

Is it me or this article is really vague? What's the new experience, exactly? Also, I started using Firefox on my Android phone because of 2 reasons: block ads and Google seems to be more and more for-profit and not for-users. And I love Firefox with one exception: when I press a link on another app Firefox doesn't open but gives me a small notification on the bottom the screen saying the tab opened in Firefox. I fin…

That feature is called tab queue, and it can be disabled in settings.