Duckduckgo browser for Android was the only one I could run on an old Nexus after I lost my reg phone. I kept using it on the new replacement phone and it nicely blocks all embedded social media junk letting you individually select what you want to see like one of those lazy news stories where it's a dozen tweets embedded.
Why I use Firefox
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Re: Why I use Firefox
#52It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
I use it for 95% of my browsing, with exactly the extensions you mention, but I do have to recognize it's stability is rough at times. Every now and then I run into a site that fails hard, crashing the entire UI on my Pixel 6 Pro. Admittedly I haven't tried disabling extensions and finding the root cause. I just switch to Chrome for that task.
I use Firefox on mobile every day (with uBlock Origin and Tampermonkey extensions), and I don't recall it ever crashing on me. Pixel 6a, and a Xiaomi thing previously.
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#53Gecko is my least favorite feature of Firefox because it doesn't properly handle websites like github where it doesn't show the full page forcing you to reopen the page in a new tab and close the bugged one. If Firefox doesn't have the resources to properly handle common sites they should just I switch to Blink to leverage a better maintained browser engine. It would also let Firefox invest more resources into differ…
Would you have more details to share? I don't experience such issues on github. Clue: do you have some unusual addons which could change the behavior of Firefox?
I've only hit it on mobile and I've hit it on a few other sites and trying with Chrome, the full page renders everytime. The only addon I have is ubo.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be true, if in practice all the finances of Mozilla didn't come from Google. So it's like Google wearing a mask.
Google is paying because Firefox is popular. It is a chicken & egg problem.
Google is paying because if they didn't, Microsoft or somebody else might.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#55It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
And soon, thanks to the European Union, it's going to be great on iOS too. Now browsers will be allowed to use their custom engine (they were forced to all use Safari up until now), so thank you EU for the new DMA!
This assumes vendors will bother if only EU users can benefit. Maintaining two significantly different branches is a lot of work.
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#56> Mozilla says that they can’t (decrypt my data on their servers), and I trust them. I don't. I still neuter Firefox (LibreWolf, mostly.) and disable all the sync nonsense.
One can self-host the sync server. I do this and it works great across Android and a Linux desktop, including live showing which tabs are open.
Sync can be self-hosted but the equally necessary auth-service is centralised at Mozilla. This does not make sense from a technical perspective and is reason for me to not use Firefox sync. I used to run is predecessor and liked the services it provided so I'd like to run the whole current stack as well but alas.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#57It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
If you use Google (even occasionally), don't forget to install the Google Search Fixer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
Thank you for this! I wondered why image search is barely usable on mobile Firefox - turns out it's just Google hampering the competition!
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#58On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements
Extension name?
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#59I never used Chrome, so i don't know if it has a picture-in-picture player. But if it doesn't, you are really living in the past. It's so incredibly convenient. p.s.: I googled, there is an extension that does the same for Chrome, but not natively.
I am pretty sure chrome supports PIP and I fiddled with it using JS but for some reason it's not on by default
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#60Firefox removed tab grouping for some reason. I think the only feature I miss in FF from Chrome. And Tab group saving.