Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
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Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#2I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, both desktop and mobile. It works very well and I never have problems with it. It blocks ads on mobile and chrome doesn't.
As far as I have seen, it's fast. I don't notice a difference on the rare occasion I open chromium to check and see that some application will look the same for a client as it does for me.
But I guess it's always true: people go out of their way to complain, but not to compliment.
I should write a "I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, happier than I would be with any other browser" blog post and see if it gets any attention.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#3Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt...
It's sad.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#4Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt... It's sad.
Is there any more context to this? Because the tweet is vague and assuming it's about posts like this seems like a bit of a jump unless you've got further info about it
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#5I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, both desktop and mobile. It works very well and I never have problems with it. It blocks ads on mobile and chrome doesn't. As far as I have seen, it's fast. I don't notice a difference on the rare occasion I open chromium to check and see that some application will look the same for a client as it does for me. But I guess it's always true: people go out of their way to complain, but…
That's a bit harsh. Every point they raised is valid: the UX changes have been weird and inconsistent, the lack of history searching is frustrating etc
I still use ff, I certainly won't be using Chrome as I appreciate my add-ons too much.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#6Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt... It's sad.
The way things are going, Firefox will have to drop their rendering engine for Webkit. What they're doing now is unsustainable.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#7I have no issue with it at all. As with my desktop Firefox instances I have an embarrassing number of tabs, and have no complaints whatsoever.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#8Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt... It's sad.
Is there any more context to this? Because the tweet is vague and assuming it's about posts like this seems like a bit of a jump unless you've got further info about it
Here is some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb/firefox_de...
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#9Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt... It's sad.
That person doesn't work at Mozilla or on free software at all anymore. It was a bad tweet, but it's past the time to reasonably hold that against Mozilla.
Mozilla has a lot of problems, and it would be better to blame them for the problems that are still around rather than a bad tweet from months ago by someone not employed at Mozilla any longer.
Re: Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
#10I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, both desktop and mobile. It works very well and I never have problems with it. It blocks ads on mobile and chrome doesn't. As far as I have seen, it's fast. I don't notice a difference on the rare occasion I open chromium to check and see that some application will look the same for a client as it does for me. But I guess it's always true: people go out of their way to complain, but…
That's a bit harsh. Every point they raised is valid: the UX changes have been weird and inconsistent, the lack of history searching is frustrating etc I still use ff, I certainly won't be using Chrome as I appreciate my add-ons too much.
Chrome is also adding bizarre ux choices on mobile. The tipping point for me was nested tabs (tab groups) with no way to disable them. I've been a happy Android Firefox user since then.