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I'm curious on some thoughts regarding how this compares with Firefox for Android. I'm a happy user of it. Firefox Sync is particularly nice as it allows me to
by feanaro 6y ago
I'm curious on some thoughts regarding how this compares with Firefox for Android. I'm a happy user of it. Firefox Sync is particularly nice as it allows me to sync my tabs between the desktop and my phone. I feel like syncing through Mozilla is a distinct advantage than going through Google for privacy reasons.
Taking this into account, are there any advantages of Bromite? Why would someone prefer it over Firefox?
- CameronNemo 6y agoCompatibility, better performance Disclaimer: happy Firefox on android user
- riedel 6y agoIt provides a webview. Would love to have a Firefox one.
- eco 6y agoThere is GeckoView. It's what the current Firefox is built on and can be used by any Android app as a replacement for web view.
- kbrosnan 6y agoNot quite. It can be used when any app calls the Android custom tab API. It is not a drop in replacement for Android's Webview. See https://geckoview.dev https://geckoview.dev
- brmgb 6y agoI used Bromite for a while and went back to Firefox with Ublock. From my experience, the privacy enhancement breaks enough websites to negatively counter balance the compatibility benefit of being Chrome based. Of course, you might view things differently if you actually value said enhancements.
- zamalek 6y agoI tried it out but sadly the Android pluggable password managers, so I had to switch back to Firefox for that reason.
- burundi_coffee 6y agoDoesn't firefox for android use goolag analytics?
- zecg 6y agoThe new mobile firefox has no option to save pages anymore. Used to download them into PDF for reading later.
- cf100clunk 6y agoI prefer a real time choice of browser, so I use Bromite and Bromite System Webview but actually do most of my www activities with Firefox for the benefit of great extensions and the Sync feature. I test Firefox Beta regularly too.