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I have Firefox Preview installed on my phone and it is set as my default browser, but I still keep the original Firefox for Android, because: - Preview is miss

I have Firefox Preview installed on my phone and it is set as my default browser, but I still keep the original Firefox for Android, because: - Preview is missing support for Add-ons. This was a huge advantage of Firefox for Android (for me this means, that I cannot use uBlock.. the built-in ad blocker is good, but uBlock is better) - There are limited settings available in Preview. (e.g. what I am missing a "download images only over wifi" option.)

squiggleblaz 7y ago
I also have Firefox Preview installed on my phone. It's set as default but I basically don't use it, because: * Preview lacks support for ad blocking. * For some reason, every time I open a link in Firefox Preview, it goes into "Private" mode and there's no option to stop that from happening. I think it used to ask me, and one time I said "Private" and ever since then it's been in private mode - it asked me every time till I said "Private" and thereafter it's never asked me again. This means I can only use Preview for the links that transiently get opened, because I can't even find the normal tabs without closing Private browsing.
- input_sh 7y ago
  Settings - Default Launcher - there's a checkbox that you can uncheck to not open random links in private tabs.
  - squiggleblaz 7y ago
    For clarity, that's Firefox Preview Settings not Android Settings. I would probably appreciate being asked since I tend to forget to close things - better to say "i want this tab only transiently, close it some time in the somewhat distant future (but, preferably, keep both transient and permanent tabs available)". Being asked to open it private is almost that. Still leaves me with ad blocking which is probably the third most important feature of a web browser after the ability to parse and render HTML.
    - Vinnl 7y ago
      I don't think that's intended behaviour by default: I've never set this up, and links open in my regular session.
      - squiggleblaz 7y ago
        I've always assumed that, at some point, I must have fumbled and pressed "set as default" one time when it asked me. I regularly drop my phone, and fumbles that get me into settings I don't want happen occasionally. But it definitely used to ask me every time.

squiggleblaz 7y ago

I also have Firefox Preview installed on my phone. It's set as default but I basically don't use it, because: * Preview lacks support for ad blocking. * For some reason, every time I open a link in Firefox Preview, it goes into "Private" mode and there's no option to stop that from happening. I think it used to ask me, and one time I said "Private" and ever since then it's been in private mode - it asked me every time till I said "Private" and thereafter it's never asked me again. This means I can only use Preview for the links that transiently get opened, because I can't even find the normal tabs without closing Private browsing.

input_sh 7y ago
Settings - Default Launcher - there's a checkbox that you can uncheck to not open random links in private tabs.
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  For clarity, that's Firefox Preview Settings not Android Settings. I would probably appreciate being asked since I tend to forget to close things - better to say "i want this tab only transiently, close it some time in the somewhat distant future (but, preferably, keep both transient and permanent tabs available)". Being asked to open it private is almost that. Still leaves me with ad blocking which is probably the third most important feature of a web browser after the ability to parse and render HTML.
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    I don't think that's intended behaviour by default: I've never set this up, and links open in my regular session.
    - squiggleblaz 7y ago
      I've always assumed that, at some point, I must have fumbled and pressed "set as default" one time when it asked me. I regularly drop my phone, and fumbles that get me into settings I don't want happen occasionally. But it definitely used to ask me every time.