Reinventing Firefox for Android • Hacker News Board

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by patrickbolle » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:12 PM UTC

diafygi wrote: post #14

My ideal for mobile: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Containers Now: Firefox + uBlock Origin (no Containers) Upcoming: Firefox (no uBlock Origin, no Containers) Seems like we're moving backwards, no?

This is a preview version (as mentioned a billion times in the article). Addons are planned by the end of 2019. This is for testing.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by sagischwarz » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:12 PM UTC

jeena wrote: post #10

I can't find any info about Sync (especially with my own back-end) which is one of the main reasons I'm using Firefox everywhere.

Sync works fine, at least for bookmarks and history, but I cannot choose what to sync, the check boxes are greyed out: https://i.imgur.com/atDU75z.png

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by sergiosgc » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

jeena wrote: post #10

I can't find any info about Sync (especially with my own back-end) which is one of the main reasons I'm using Firefox everywhere.

You can probably use Firefox Lockwise [https://lockwise.firefox.com/] to sync passwords.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by djaychela » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

diafygi wrote: post #14

My ideal for mobile: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Containers Now: Firefox + uBlock Origin (no Containers) Upcoming: Firefox (no uBlock Origin, no Containers) Seems like we're moving backwards, no?

Do you know for sure that's the actual roadmap for the new version?

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by steve19 » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

Still no pull to refresh. They really don't want users to adopt their browser. Literally every single other mobile Web browser supports it.

Yet Mozilla has some ideological stance that it breaks web interaction (with what, the 0.0001% of browser that target Firefox above Safari or Chrome on mobile).

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by steve19 » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

briffle wrote: post #17

nwah1 wrote: post #15

Main thing I don't like about Firefox for Android is the lack of support for containers. I want to use sites like Facebook within a container.

I love containers, but the lack of ability to sync them really annoys me. Every time I get a new computer (or re-install, or setup a VPN to test with, etc) I have to manually create all my rules to always open my bank stuff in a special container, and always open my work sites in their container, etc. It seems like these rules should just sync.

Me too. It is classic Mozilla. They have such big blind spots. Even after the certificate debacle, which wiped containers for some people, they still appear to have no plans to sync them.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by AgloeDreams » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

steve19 wrote: post #25

Still no pull to refresh. They really don't want users to adopt their browser. Literally every single other mobile Web browser supports it. Yet Mozilla has some ideological stance that it breaks web interaction (with what, the 0.0001% of browser that target Firefox above Safari or Chrome on mobile).

In fairness, that is pretty non-standard and is only done on Android as I understand.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by Ultramanoid » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

patrickbolle wrote: post #21

diafygi wrote: post #14

My ideal for mobile: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Containers Now: Firefox + uBlock Origin (no Containers) Upcoming: Firefox (no uBlock Origin, no Containers) Seems like we're moving backwards, no?

This is a preview version (as mentioned a billion times in the article). Addons are planned by the end of 2019. This is for testing.

Like others have said, uBlock Origin ( or solid alternative; uMatrix, etc ) at this point is a prerequisite for any browser.

I am not testing something that puts me in danger and throws me into the festering garbage dumpster that internet is these days without it. It's like testing a car that doesn't have brakes yet.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by abdulmuhaimin » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

I dont envy Mozilla. The demographic that they're targeting are really hard to please.

Re: Reinventing Firefox for Android

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Post by Touche » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

Some feedback: If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default. As far as I can this one does not block ads at all. Good initial experience but please block ads.