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uBlock is the sole reason I use Firefox over Chrome on Android.

tannhaeuser 10y ago
Not only does FF Mobile support uBlock, I find it to be an excellent day-to-day mobile browser in its own right actually. Compatibility and performance gap vs mobile Chrome is much smaller than on the desktop for the sites I visit (or is even non-existent).
- vanderZwan 10y ago
  There's also the part where youtube videos keep playing if you move to another tab or app
  - diminish 10y ago
    That's how I listen to music and talks on the go :) Ublock origin and that.
  - dredmorbius 10y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746830#13751653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746830#13751653
  - bubblethink 10y ago
    You can use newpipe (find it on f-droid) as an alternative to the youtube app. It has some other benefits too. It seems to block ads as a side-effect. You can also fix the stream quality. It has a few limitations too, but it's better than playing them in firefox, and even the youtube app for my use cases.
  - tehbeard 10y ago
    Just tried it out on my phone (android), and there's no notification tray widget to pause the audio? Is this just not a default setting? An add-on I can get? Or just not something you can do? So worst case scenario is: 1. Wake the screen. 2. Unlock phone. 3. reopen Firefox, because I've checked texts/email/social feed whatever after starting the music. 4. find the tab playing music. 5. Navigate to whatever in that tab controls the audio . 6. pause it. vs. what I've come to expect from other apps (inc. Chrome, despite it pausing audio even when you swap tabs!) of getting a small widget in the notification drawer with at the very least a play/pause button I can hit after waking the screen.
  - photon-torpedo 10y ago
    I wonder how accidental that feature is. It's certainly not something that Firefox can advertise, since other apps which did that have been kicked out off the Play Store. Also, I also found that feature to be not very reliable since Android 6, which quite aggressively puts background apps to sleep (at least on my phone with "only" 2GB of RAM). I find that any extensive use outside Firefox will make the background playing stop rather quickly.
  - always_good 10y ago
    Sounds amazing. It annoys me every day that I can't put on a Youtube video and then continue listening to it while I do something else with my iPhone afaict. If I didn't want that, I would pause it first.

Not only does FF Mobile support uBlock, I find it to be an excellent day-to-day mobile browser in its own right actually. Compatibility and performance gap vs mobile Chrome is much smaller than on the desktop for the sites I visit (or is even non-existent).

vanderZwan 10y ago
There's also the part where youtube videos keep playing if you move to another tab or app
- diminish 10y ago
  That's how I listen to music and talks on the go :) Ublock origin and that.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746830#13751653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746830#13751653
- bubblethink 10y ago
  You can use newpipe (find it on f-droid) as an alternative to the youtube app. It has some other benefits too. It seems to block ads as a side-effect. You can also fix the stream quality. It has a few limitations too, but it's better than playing them in firefox, and even the youtube app for my use cases.
- tehbeard 10y ago
  Just tried it out on my phone (android), and there's no notification tray widget to pause the audio? Is this just not a default setting? An add-on I can get? Or just not something you can do? So worst case scenario is: 1. Wake the screen. 2. Unlock phone. 3. reopen Firefox, because I've checked texts/email/social feed whatever after starting the music. 4. find the tab playing music. 5. Navigate to whatever in that tab controls the audio . 6. pause it. vs. what I've come to expect from other apps (inc. Chrome, despite it pausing audio even when you swap tabs!) of getting a small widget in the notification drawer with at the very least a play/pause button I can hit after waking the screen.
- photon-torpedo 10y ago
  I wonder how accidental that feature is. It's certainly not something that Firefox can advertise, since other apps which did that have been kicked out off the Play Store. Also, I also found that feature to be not very reliable since Android 6, which quite aggressively puts background apps to sleep (at least on my phone with "only" 2GB of RAM). I find that any extensive use outside Firefox will make the background playing stop rather quickly.
- always_good 10y ago
  Sounds amazing. It annoys me every day that I can't put on a Youtube video and then continue listening to it while I do something else with my iPhone afaict. If I didn't want that, I would pause it first.