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Mobile is where the war is being fought. A better browser can ship with hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Firefox-next with ad blocking and better support

by jeswin 9y ago

Mobile is where the war is being fought. A better browser can ship with hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Firefox-next with ad blocking and better support for parallelism is just what phones need. Users will use what came with the phone.

chinhodado 9y ago
Firefox's performance on Android is horrible though. I tried switching to it a few times but always have to switch back because of performance issue.
- acjohnson55 9y ago
  Agreed. It's the browser I'm using right now, but it's got some big problems. It's draining my battery and it interferes with chromecast.
  - phillc73 9y ago
    I've been using Brave[1] on my Android phone for the past two months. It's been brilliant. A much better experience than Firefox, which was a bit slow and some pages loaded as a white screen. I'd love to use Brave on my desktop too, but their lack of plugin/extension/add on support cripples it a little. There's a couple I just can't live without. Using Iridium[2] on the desktop instead. [1] https://www.brave.com/ https://www.brave.com/ [2] https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://iridiumbrowser.de/
- pmontra 9y ago
  It doesn't has text reflow after zooming, which Opera has. For all the other features I don't see anything horrible. It used to be slow at drawing pages but it's not anymore. I've been using it since Opera changed hands and it's nice to have uBlock on the phone too.
- sirfz 9y ago
  It's the default browser I'm using right now on Android. Performance is still not on par with Chrome but it did improve since the last time I tried it a few months ago. The ability to install extensions surpasses anything else for me so I'm sticking with FF.
- bryanlarsen 9y ago
  I find Firefox on Android to be much faster than Chrome. The browser itself may or may not be faster, but the uBlock Origin plugin makes it scream...
  - angry_octet 9y ago
    And saves battery and data. The absence of plugins on ios/safari and android/chrome is a severe deficiency. It is also interesting that adblocking firewalls get denied by the app stores...
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kuschku 9y ago
How do you get Firefox on devices? If OEMs want to use the Google Play store on any single of their devices, they have to make Chrome the default browser on all of them.
- magicalist 9y ago
  > In practice this means that the position of packages in node_modules is computed internally in Yarn, which causes Yarn to be non-deterministic between people using different versions. I believe Chrome has to be installed, but it clearly doesn't have to be the default. Just see all the Samsung phones with the default Samsung Internet Browser as evidence.
- dmitrygr 9y ago
  Open play store and install it unlike iOS, android supports setting any browser as default. You can then even completely disable chrome
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Again, 90% of users out there will never change the browser, not even if the default is IE6 (as the browserchoice case showed). As long as Chrome is preinstalled, it will win.

by jeswin 9y ago

chinhodado 9y ago

Firefox's performance on Android is horrible though. I tried switching to it a few times but always have to switch back because of performance issue.

acjohnson55 9y ago
Agreed. It's the browser I'm using right now, but it's got some big problems. It's draining my battery and it interferes with chromecast.
- phillc73 9y ago
  I've been using Brave[1] on my Android phone for the past two months. It's been brilliant. A much better experience than Firefox, which was a bit slow and some pages loaded as a white screen. I'd love to use Brave on my desktop too, but their lack of plugin/extension/add on support cripples it a little. There's a couple I just can't live without. Using Iridium[2] on the desktop instead. [1] https://www.brave.com/ https://www.brave.com/ [2] https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://iridiumbrowser.de/
pmontra 9y ago
It doesn't has text reflow after zooming, which Opera has. For all the other features I don't see anything horrible. It used to be slow at drawing pages but it's not anymore. I've been using it since Opera changed hands and it's nice to have uBlock on the phone too.
sirfz 9y ago
It's the default browser I'm using right now on Android. Performance is still not on par with Chrome but it did improve since the last time I tried it a few months ago. The ability to install extensions surpasses anything else for me so I'm sticking with FF.
bryanlarsen 9y ago
I find Firefox on Android to be much faster than Chrome. The browser itself may or may not be faster, but the uBlock Origin plugin makes it scream...
- angry_octet 9y ago
  And saves battery and data. The absence of plugins on ios/safari and android/chrome is a severe deficiency. It is also interesting that adblocking firewalls get denied by the app stores...

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kuschku 9y ago

How do you get Firefox on devices? If OEMs want to use the Google Play store on any single of their devices, they have to make Chrome the default browser on all of them.

magicalist 9y ago
> In practice this means that the position of packages in node_modules is computed internally in Yarn, which causes Yarn to be non-deterministic between people using different versions. I believe Chrome has to be installed, but it clearly doesn't have to be the default. Just see all the Samsung phones with the default Samsung Internet Browser as evidence.
dmitrygr 9y ago
Open play store and install it unlike iOS, android supports setting any browser as default. You can then even completely disable chrome
- kuschku 9y ago
  Again, 90% of users out there will never change the browser, not even if the default is IE6 (as the browserchoice case showed). As long as Chrome is preinstalled, it will win.