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A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by anotheryou »

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?

"nightly for developers" it's so you can make your stuff work in upcoming versions. I think it's fair to start early. Stick to beta if you want to develop extensions before they are implemented.

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by blendergeek »

gruez wrote: post #140
blendergeek wrote: post #139

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How do you do that? I have been wanting to run my own sync for a long time but haven't been able to figure it out.

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run... was the guide I used

Okay. Thank you. Do you run your own accounts server or just use Mozilla's?

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by propogandist »

s5ma6n wrote: post #13
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?

For me personally, uBlock (and other extensions) is the only reason I am using Firefox on Android. If this feature is removed, I will either go back to Samsung Browser or check something else.

Samsung browser is a piece of garbage that is constantly phoning home, like all other pre-installed Samsung apps.

Look into Kiwi Browser. It's a chromium based android browser that supports extensions https://kiwibrowser.com/

I've been using it alongside FF for Extensions, but it's nicer (+faster) than FF and has features like pull down to refresh a page, native web-app support etc.

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by jonny383 »

useragent86 wrote: post #118
jshevek wrote: post #34

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If you are checking something else, I recommend Brave. I've switched from Firefox to Brave and I am mostly satisfied.

HN mods should investigate the systematic downvoting of pro-Brave comments. It happens on every discussion of browsers.

They keep getting voted down because comments like "just use brave" don't actually add anything relevant to the discussion about the subject article.

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by craftinator »

jaynetics wrote: post #123
BlackLotus89 wrote: post #111

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> Tab management is much more intuitive and easier on the thumbs It's worse if you have many tabs and the compartmentalisation feature is not flexible enough to be used with many tabs. Oh and the missing preview image is annoying when I'm looking for a site, because it's easier to look for a tab by looking at it then reading every title > the URL bar being at the bottom is jarring at first but soon becomes much easie…

> when I want to edit an url I first have to click on the bottom and then at the top as well. Another annoyance is how it never disappears. I get that it would be less intuitive to have a bar at the bottom disappear when scrolling down a page and reappear when scrolling up, but the way it is now, with the bar always there, some websites are simply unusable in landscape mode on a regular phone. All in all, a great and…

As this release is nightly, feedback like yours will go a long way to fix these annoying UI issues

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by silon42 »

vorticalbox wrote: post #94
silon42 wrote: post #53

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I've tried Fenix a few times, and even without getting into extensions, it seemed like a regression in many ways.

How so? I loved the layout and the collections rather than book marks

I like the collections a lot, the layout not so much (moved url to top, but it only moves it for browser page, not the collections page.

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by no_identd »

skinkestek wrote: post #134
tablethnuser wrote: post #107

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I had bought into the Firefox ecosystem down to their password manager and would have paid for premium services. Remove the ability to adblock on mobile and I'm pulling out of the entire ecosystem. What a betrayal. They don't even have any skin in the ad game

As someone who was deeply disappointed when they broke all old extensions before fixing the new API (but had nowhere to go as Chrome had always had neutered extensions compared to Firefox) I hope they'll fix the extension interface first this time.

Try Basilisk, by the same people who made Pale Moon, but with less feature stripping.

Re: A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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Post by jeena »

blendergeek wrote: post #143
gruez wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run... was the guide I used

Okay. Thank you. Do you run your own accounts server or just use Mozilla's?

I use still Mozillas but have planned to replace it some day.
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