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Cool, how about working on that mobile browser you already have? I've been using it for years and it's good but apparently the lack of progress on it is because
by jimmaswell 7y ago
Cool, how about working on that mobile browser you already have? I've been using it for years and it's good but apparently the lack of progress on it is because they abandoned us users of it to focus on this thing.
When quantum came out addon capability on mobile severely regressed and never recovered. This issue to support the context menu API has been open for TWO YEARS.[0] I just want to be able to long press an image and reverse image search it like I used to, is that so much to ask? Yes, there's an addon to do it through the addon menu and then tap the image but it's not the same.
0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363016
- re4ctor 7y agoThe amount of work to improve Firefox for Android basically meant a rewrite was needed, hence Firefox Preview being the eventually replacement when it's fully ready
- mncolinlee 7y agoWe had many discussions around this. The Firefox for Android code base was not in a great condition to maintain backwards compatibility as well as accept a new rendering engine and all of the new Android Components we wanted to introduce to unify of our code bases for different Android-based products. TL;DR: There was too much cruft built up. Work should move faster now. We substantially grew our Android team in the last year.
- jimmaswell 7y agoI hope that works out then, I'm just frustrated with the state of mobile as it's been since the regressions. As someone who still thinks dropping XUL from desktop was a mistake (and maybe even mobile now that devices are more powerful) I wish it could've just stayed how it was but I'll just have to make the best of it.