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Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Re: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Post by Manishearth »

pricechild wrote: post #24
engendered wrote: post #16

Is this a reasonable complaint? Why would you be browsing the play store from Android in a browser? If you try to open it in the Chrome browser, it just forces you to the play store app, which rather makes sense. Every platform and browser requires support and attention, and in this case they chose not to support an edge case that really makes no sense, and simply causes usability issues (so how do you install an app…

There's more to the play store than apps. It annoyed me no end when trying to buy a Nexus 5 that it constantly tried to redirect me to the app... which doesn't sell them!

This. One thing I hate about app versions of webapps is that they aren't always full feature compatible (and sometimes there's no way to even get the desktop site)

Re: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Post by venomsnake »

0942v8653 wrote: post #59
andrewgjohnson wrote: post #49

Can you browse the App Store on iOS using Firefox? Seems like a bit of a red herring issue to be honest.

As one commenter said, you can use it in Chrome on android. And until recently (it's in development now) it was mozzila's decision not to make Firefox for iOS.

Did apple allowed foreign engines? Or everyone still pretends that re skinned safari is a different browser?

What about asm.js and the likes

Re: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Post by Manishearth »

engendered wrote: post #16

Is this a reasonable complaint? Why would you be browsing the play store from Android in a browser? If you try to open it in the Chrome browser, it just forces you to the play store app, which rather makes sense. Every platform and browser requires support and attention, and in this case they chose not to support an edge case that really makes no sense, and simply causes usability issues (so how do you install an app…

Uh, I don't think Firefox actively ignores URL intents, it just prompts about them. Which is what it's supposed to do.

Re: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Post by k-mcgrady »

josteink wrote: post #14

Hi Google. Remember those non-evil days where you said you cared about web-standards and actually acted according to those claims? Those days were great. Feel free to get back to those.

Although I don't support what they're doing I can guess the response here based on past responses:

They are using new technology that's currently only available in Chrome but available to other browsers to implement and therefore they are pushing the web forward.

I'm not sure if that applies to this specific case but that's usually the excuse.

Re: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

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Post by Steuard »

0942v8653 wrote: post #59
andrewgjohnson wrote: post #49

Can you browse the App Store on iOS using Firefox? Seems like a bit of a red herring issue to be honest.

As one commenter said, you can use it in Chrome on android. And until recently (it's in development now) it was mozzila's decision not to make Firefox for iOS.

What would it mean to make Firefox for iOS? My understanding was that iOS requires all browsers to use the same rendering engine under the hood, so "Firefox" there wouldn't be much more than a different skin for Safari. (Has that changed?)
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