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I know that HN demographics is biased to using and getting info about IT, but I believe that people that use Firefox on Android are not common and most have som
by ajot 6y ago
I know that HN demographics is biased to using and getting info about IT, but I believe that people that use Firefox on Android are not common and most have some kind of interest on IT. It wonders me how they could not hear about the new Firefox for Android, it's been ~a year since Mozilla announced it, and news about how it's development was going on (and that Firefox Fenix was the Stable version somewhere a month ago).
- teekert 6y agoI indeed heard about it, a long time ago, yesterday's update took me by surprise though.
- tsimionescu 6y agoI work in this domain and am using exclusively FF for Android, but I've never been interested in following their development. Either way, I don't think that being surprised is the problem. Having a browser update break extensions is the problem - I would bet a lot of people only use FF because Chrome doesn't support extensions (I know that's why I use it anyway), so essentially the update is breaking the only important functionality. Thankfully, I don't have automatic updates enabled, so I can still wait and see how broken this really is and how long it will take to fix it.
- rurp 6y agoFirefox is the biggest reason I don't have automatic updates enabled on my phone. The amount of pointless UI and functionality breaking changes they have made over the years is crazy. The fact that they are laying people off after all of this wasted effort makes it even worse. The only reasons I use FF are extensions and that it's not Chrome. The former is mostly gone. The latter is enough to keep me around for now but it's getting old.