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> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
This from someone who has had Firefox as my default browser on my computer since I unzipped Phoenix off a CD which came bundled with a computer magazine.
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I tried to use Firefox on Android recently. It felt like my phone was about to melt; I wasn't able to stick with it.
May I ask which phone do you have? I used Firefox as my primary browser for at least all of 2016 on a Samsung Galaxy S2 (a 2011 phone) and on a Sony Xperia Compact since fall 2016. No problems with performance. Opera has a much better text reflow on zoom but that's all. Chrome, no difference, but I never used Chrome much so I might be missing something.
"...and Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience..." As a daily FF on Android user, I am not sure what he is finding issues with. I wish he would elaborate so his issues can get fixed.
I have a Nexus 6 updated with the latest OS version and FF. I spend about 90% of my browsing time on HN, LinkedIn, and a couple of miscellaneous other news sites. I observe the following problems: Loss of UI, where the only thing I see is either a white or black screen. Swiping up or down as if to scroll or refresh "peels back" some of this to reveal the web page underneath, but it doesn't become functional unless I…
I notice you specifically mention LinkedIn. I don't use that site but I did read their recent web development blog post when they admitted that they had a CSS download of 3.5MB that was causing issues for mobile users. Apparently they've fixed that now, would be interesting to see if that was a cause.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin is amazing. Best mobile browsing experience on any platform for me.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
I try Firefox on Android about every six months and it is consistently worse than its competitors. Its address bar behaviour is erratic, websites render desktop versions or "basic" versions where I would get a more functional version on chrome, it feels heavy and scrolling still sucks. This from someone who has had Firefox as my default browser on my computer since I unzipped Phoenix off a CD which came bundled with…
Sounds like user-agent sniffing, considered pretty bad practice.
I use Firefox Android daily and it's consistently more useful than Chrome;
* Firefox Sync lets me send tabs between all my devices
* I can run a scriptblocker, which has saved me from atleast two Script Injection attacks
* I can set DDG as search engine
* I can open tabs in the background which is useful when people post links with commentary or multiple links
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Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin is amazing. Best mobile browsing experience on any platform for me.
I can confirm. I recently wanted to try Chrome for Android but after several vibrating ads I migrated back to Firefox.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.