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Having multiple small tutorials like these will make it easy for anyone who wants to move to Firefox. The more the merrier. That said, I still can't get used to

Having multiple small tutorials like these will make it easy for anyone who wants to move to Firefox. The more the merrier. That said, I still can't get used to Firefox. It's fine on desktop, and using profiles is not too much of a big deal for me. But on mobile, Firefox is not as intuitive as chrome is to me. On my phone I have Chrome, which I only ever use if a website fails on all other browsers, I have Brave as my daily driver, and Firefox because I want to make it my default. I just can't navigate as easily on Firefox as I can on Chromium browsers. An example, when I use HN, I open links on a new tab and I can swipe the header left or right to navigate from tab to tab. Easy breezy. On Firefox, I have to click on the tab menu, figure out where I am, and read titles to know where I am going. Every single time I forget, I end up clicking on many tabs before I find where I am going. Don't know if this feature in Firefox's pipeline, but that's the only thing stopping me from making the switch.

mdibaiee 7y ago
That's a good idea to propose to Mozilla for the new "Firefox Preview" which is a new version built from the ground up. They are open to innovations on that version and so far they already have made some experiments there. You might want to try it out and leave this idea as a feedback on the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...
sundarurfriend 7y ago
> That said, I still can't get used to Firefox. Ironic username, then.
matsemann 7y ago
Firefox for android supports addons, though, so can be customized to do anything. I can't believe people use Chrome om Android when you can have Fx with ad blocking! For your problem, I use an addon called "simple gesture" that allows me to add all kinds of gestures/actions.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Assuming it's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gesture/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur...: any ideas why does it need to "access my data for all websites" and "access the clipboard"? Curiously the blurb recommends "Quick Gestures" which presumably is a different gesture addon.
  - matsemann 7y ago
    - access data: probably because the gesture is actually done inside the page you're viewing, so it has to be able to capture that - clipboard: it was a feature requested, for gestures to be able to work with the clip board: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gesture/reviews/1449456/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur... So just recently added for that reason
- sir_brickalot 7y ago
  Here is a very (un)unique problem: I have HNapp.com bookmarked on Android desktop bcs I'm trying to avoid native apps and support "the web". But each time I click the bookmark it opens a new tab in FF. After a few days I have 40+ open tabs. Anyone found a way to avoid that? (Plus: The back button often/always opens an old cached version of, lets say, page 1.)

mdibaiee 7y ago

That's a good idea to propose to Mozilla for the new "Firefox Preview" which is a new version built from the ground up. They are open to innovations on that version and so far they already have made some experiments there. You might want to try it out and leave this idea as a feedback on the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...

sundarurfriend 7y ago

> That said, I still can't get used to Firefox. Ironic username, then.

matsemann 7y ago

Firefox for android supports addons, though, so can be customized to do anything. I can't believe people use Chrome om Android when you can have Fx with ad blocking! For your problem, I use an addon called "simple gesture" that allows me to add all kinds of gestures/actions.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Assuming it's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gesture/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur...: any ideas why does it need to "access my data for all websites" and "access the clipboard"? Curiously the blurb recommends "Quick Gestures" which presumably is a different gesture addon.
- matsemann 7y ago
  - access data: probably because the gesture is actually done inside the page you're viewing, so it has to be able to capture that - clipboard: it was a feature requested, for gestures to be able to work with the clip board: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gesture/reviews/1449456/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur... So just recently added for that reason
sir_brickalot 7y ago
Here is a very (un)unique problem: I have HNapp.com bookmarked on Android desktop bcs I'm trying to avoid native apps and support "the web". But each time I click the bookmark it opens a new tab in FF. After a few days I have 40+ open tabs. Anyone found a way to avoid that? (Plus: The back button often/always opens an old cached version of, lets say, page 1.)