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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.
by eadmund 9y ago
> 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.
- Nexxxeh 9y agoFirefox on Android with uBlock Origin is amazing. Best mobile browsing experience on any platform for me.
- Boulth 9y agoI can confirm. I recently wanted to try Chrome for Android but after several vibrating ads I migrated back to Firefox.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoInteresting, I've only ever seen these on Pornhub... ;)
- Mediumium 9y agoInteresting, I've only ever seen Pornhub on Pornhub... ;)
- tazard 9y agoI regularly switch between Firefox + ublock and Firefox Focus. Both are great in my opinion, just for different purposes.
- ac29 9y agoScrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.
- TheChaplain 9y agoNo issues here, and I use it daily on a 2+ year old S7. Currently >20 tabs open with Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere addons. No stuttering or delays.
- nucleardog 9y agoI use it on a Jelly Pro. A $125, 2.something inch phone running a MediaTek 6737 at all of like 1.3GHz with some barely passable GPU. Scrolls fine. I mean, I'm sure if I went and pulled out a high framerate camera and checked it's running at a mere like 15FPS or something completely unusable, but it's never been bad enough to catch my attention. And on a really low end phone being able to install uBlock Origin certainly means that Firefox solves a lot more issues than it might potentially create.
- taneq 9y agoWeird, what device are you using? I used it on my Nexus 5X and now on my non-Edge S7 and it's fine, maybe some slightly-perceptible judders but certainly fluid enough to be usable.
- khedoros1 9y agoI use it as my main browser on a phone that was mid-range when it was released 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been pretty happy with it.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoIt's perfectly fine on my Moto X Play.
- sam_goody 9y agoI'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.
- tomcooks 9y agoCare to share the model name? Interesting price
- thaumasiotes 9y agoI tried to use Firefox on Android recently. It felt like my phone was about to melt; I wasn't able to stick with it.
- pmontra 9y agoMay 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.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoOneplus 3
- boudin 9y agoOn my oneplus 3t Firefox works like a charm. Only scrolling definitely is not as smooth as chrome or webview based alternative but it's working really well otherwise. I was using it on a phone with 1GB of ram before (a moto G3) and it was definitely another story, but chrome was as bad, so I was still using Firefox.
- batiudrami 9y agoI 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 a computer magazine.
- zaarn 9y ago> websites render desktop versions or "basic" versions where I would get a more functional version on chrome 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
- ce4 9y agoThe "open tabs in background" is a really nice feature. I love it for adding stuff to read from other apps to read it later, eg from chat or email.
- barbs 9y agoSame here - works perfectly on my S5 with LineageOS installed
- jhasse 9y agoLinks which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/
- ealhad 9y agoOn my phone (I use Lineage), I have control of what app opens what link.
- jhasse 9y agoI mean a link inside Firefox. Search on google.com in Firefox for a YouTube video and click the result. It will open in Firefox, not the YouTube app.
- wazoox 9y agoAnd playing it with youtube means you got the ads. No thanks. In fact, I convinced some people to use Firefox to watch youtube on Android precisely because of this: get rid of really annoying ads.
- jhasse 9y agoI'm using NewPipe, so I won't get any ads. https://newpipe.schabi.org/ https://newpipe.schabi.org/
- commoner 9y agoIn 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 name> 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.
- jhasse 9y agoThat'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.
- nedp 9y agonot gonna say it is best to use bleeding edge but since releasing their photon ui on ff58 nightly for android it was the best experience i had :)