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I'm considering trying FF on mobile and I am curious what QoL features are missing? Thanks!

nine_k 6y ago
From my perspective, none of them. The browser is reasonably fast, and you can still share bookmarks and logins with other installations if you create a Mozilla account (or host your own sync server!). But, from my perspective, just having uBlock Origin installed in the extensions is a huge differentiator, that gives most pages a lot of speedup. Stylus can also be helpful to fix some suboptimal mobile designs.
- me_smith 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing! I think I will give it a go.
Sevaris 6y ago
One of the things that annoys me on a daily basis is how FF handles the address bar. In Brave, if I click on the address bar. It gives me a button to copy the link. If I have a link copied, there's a paste button. If I use FF, I have to go through the whole monkey dance of clicking on the address bar, tap holding the address until the copy menu shows up, then I can copy. Then there's absolutely infuriating stuff like the address bar and tabs disappearing when scrolling, which is fine, but it can be really fucking annoying trying to get it to show up again. It doesn't respond properly, sometimes I'll have to scroll back up a whole page before it does anything and all I wanted to do was switch tabs, so I have to scroll back down when I come back. Makes me want to punch an FF developer.
- matsemann 6y ago
  Just longclick the address bar without clicking it first, it then gives you the choice to copy, and even paste&go in one click. You could always make it not to hide when scrolling. I btw use gestures to switch tabs via an extension, works great.
  - Sevaris 6y ago
    No reason to downvote me, asshat. You could always go fuck yourself. I don't want it to be shown when I'm scrolling. It takes up a fuckload of space. I do want it to fucking show up again when I need it, and not when I scroll up and down a dozen fucking times before it shows up. Assholes.
    - dang 6y ago
      Your last several comments have broken the HN guidelines. I actually banned you for this, but decided to unban you because your earlier comment history seems fine. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
- me_smith 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing your perspective. I think I will give FF a try. I can understand why the address bar / tabs disappearing while scrolling would be annoying but I'll see if it is enough for me to revert.

From my perspective, none of them. The browser is reasonably fast, and you can still share bookmarks and logins with other installations if you create a Mozilla account (or host your own sync server!). But, from my perspective, just having uBlock Origin installed in the extensions is a huge differentiator, that gives most pages a lot of speedup. Stylus can also be helpful to fix some suboptimal mobile designs.

me_smith 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! I think I will give it a go.

Sevaris 6y ago

One of the things that annoys me on a daily basis is how FF handles the address bar. In Brave, if I click on the address bar. It gives me a button to copy the link. If I have a link copied, there's a paste button. If I use FF, I have to go through the whole monkey dance of clicking on the address bar, tap holding the address until the copy menu shows up, then I can copy. Then there's absolutely infuriating stuff like the address bar and tabs disappearing when scrolling, which is fine, but it can be really fucking annoying trying to get it to show up again. It doesn't respond properly, sometimes I'll have to scroll back up a whole page before it does anything and all I wanted to do was switch tabs, so I have to scroll back down when I come back. Makes me want to punch an FF developer.

matsemann 6y ago
Just longclick the address bar without clicking it first, it then gives you the choice to copy, and even paste&go in one click. You could always make it not to hide when scrolling. I btw use gestures to switch tabs via an extension, works great.
- Sevaris 6y ago
  No reason to downvote me, asshat. You could always go fuck yourself. I don't want it to be shown when I'm scrolling. It takes up a fuckload of space. I do want it to fucking show up again when I need it, and not when I scroll up and down a dozen fucking times before it shows up. Assholes.
  - dang 6y ago
    Your last several comments have broken the HN guidelines. I actually banned you for this, but decided to unban you because your earlier comment history seems fine. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
me_smith 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I think I will give FF a try. I can understand why the address bar / tabs disappearing while scrolling would be annoying but I'll see if it is enough for me to revert.