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One thing I'd love to see is some Android Tablets that are ROM friendly.
New hardware releases have slowed to a trickle and what is being released isn't very compelling.
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Buggier, less features, and even less people using it. Also not available on F-Droid IIRC. Has this changed?
> and even less people using it. Are you sure about this? In my circle most people seem to know/use WhatsApp and Signal.
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Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
the trouble is to get your friends to use it. A vast portion of my daily communication runs over Whatsapp. A realistic migration would entail convincing 25+ people to switch apps. Network effects are powerful.
I think I'll add "Telegram" to the profile pic as well.
> 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.
Also, the Brave browser is a great FOSS option. It's a chromium fork that only adds privacy/adblocking features and doesn't require google services.
Unfortunately not on F-Droid.
> 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.
I tried this for a while and I consider the experiment failed. No closed source means no Whatsapp, etc. Let's face reality, no-one is using XMPP ;) In the end I started the policy "Prefer open-source software on Android", which works pretty well: * Note taking using orgzly * Tasks using opentasks ( https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks ) * File Sync using Syncthing * Contacts, Calendar using davdroid & nextcloud * Firefo…
Me too, that's why I'll go for a two phone solution. One main driver (FOSS) and another one for the crap ;)
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Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.
I'm use FF a ~$35 one year old Huang, with more than 100 tabs open, and have had no issues. Not so with the default browser.
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In the current version of Firefox for Android (59), you have 2 options to open a link in an external app: 1) Long-press the link, and choose "Open in App". (This won't work if the destination is hidden behind a redirect, as in Google search results. Use DuckDuckGo, instead.) 2) Navigate to the address, and press the Android icon in the navigation bar.
That's too cumbersome for me, as 1) doesn't work with redirects (as you said) and 2) only works when the page has finished loading.