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Maybe all the features still missing in the Android Firefox played some role ? Stuff like no print support, no keyboard shortcuts or no tab-bar on tablets ? N

Maybe all the features still missing in the Android Firefox played some role ? Stuff like no print support, no keyboard shortcuts or no tab-bar on tablets ? Not to mention general extensions support being a shit show as well, with basically just a very small curated list of extensions (mainly add blockers) being supported out of the box. All of these features were supported by Firefox on Android until ~2 years ago, when they did a rewrite and then ignored requests to bring this functionality back ever since. A couple links to the Android Firefox open issues: keyboard shortcuts - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3729 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3729 print support - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217 tab bar in tablet mode - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2344 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2344 tablet UX improvements - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/4498 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/4498

dmos62 4y ago
> no print support Um, somewhat tangential, but I built a statically generated CV in html, presuming that I could effortlessly print that to a PDF using a browser. Not so. Web page printing is extremely broken in every browser, and I tried them all. And, every browser had different defects. Chromium seemed to have the least horrible print functionality, but it was still really really broken. It's probably ok if you want to have a copy of some article content where presentation doesn't matter, but if it's something that you want to have a specific layout or design, tough luck.
- tehbeard 4y ago
  Silly question, but did you just use the same CSS as for the screen, or also make use of the various `@media print {...}` related CSS properties (for things like page breaks, switching to more traditional print units instead of px and rem etc)
  - dmos62 4y ago
    I didn't switch distance units, but I did try out more or less everything else. Print-specific css properties weren't well supported or well implemented. Dealing with page breaks was particularly annoying.
gaudat 4y ago
I switched to Iceraven [0] last year and never looked back. It is a fork of the new Firefox for Android but with a much longer list of extensions and about:config support. I specifically need the latter to route traffic through a local proxy before. [0]: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser Oh and it is written in Kotlin. Maybe I should learn it just to try hacking more features in.
- m4rtink 4y ago
  Interesting, thanks! Will definitely try it out as well! :-) Still, sad that people have to invest their time to do this, instead of Mozilla providing it as default functionality by default. :P
- petodo 4y ago
  Why not use Kiwi Browser? No limited list of extensions, all extensions just work.
  - m4rtink 4y ago
    That's also one of the few options if you want to run a browser with web extensions on Android, yeah. Most extensions do work, but its not 100%. Also its Chromium/Blink based, so one needs to use the Chrome extensions + at least for a while it looked like its not maintained, but I might have missed something.
    - petodo 4y ago
      it was abandoned for while, now regularly updated
      - m4rtink 4y ago
        Thanks for the heads up - tried it yesterday and it indeed looks much better now! :-)
- wizeman 4y ago

dmos62 4y ago

> no print support Um, somewhat tangential, but I built a statically generated CV in html, presuming that I could effortlessly print that to a PDF using a browser. Not so. Web page printing is extremely broken in every browser, and I tried them all. And, every browser had different defects. Chromium seemed to have the least horrible print functionality, but it was still really really broken. It's probably ok if you want to have a copy of some article content where presentation doesn't matter, but if it's something that you want to have a specific layout or design, tough luck.

tehbeard 4y ago
Silly question, but did you just use the same CSS as for the screen, or also make use of the various `@media print {...}` related CSS properties (for things like page breaks, switching to more traditional print units instead of px and rem etc)
- dmos62 4y ago
  I didn't switch distance units, but I did try out more or less everything else. Print-specific css properties weren't well supported or well implemented. Dealing with page breaks was particularly annoying.

gaudat 4y ago

I switched to Iceraven [0] last year and never looked back. It is a fork of the new Firefox for Android but with a much longer list of extensions and about:config support. I specifically need the latter to route traffic through a local proxy before. [0]: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser Oh and it is written in Kotlin. Maybe I should learn it just to try hacking more features in.

m4rtink 4y ago
Interesting, thanks! Will definitely try it out as well! :-) Still, sad that people have to invest their time to do this, instead of Mozilla providing it as default functionality by default. :P
petodo 4y ago
Why not use Kiwi Browser? No limited list of extensions, all extensions just work.
- m4rtink 4y ago
  That's also one of the few options if you want to run a browser with web extensions on Android, yeah. Most extensions do work, but its not 100%. Also its Chromium/Blink based, so one needs to use the Chrome extensions + at least for a while it looked like its not maintained, but I might have missed something.
  - petodo 4y ago
    it was abandoned for while, now regularly updated
    - m4rtink 4y ago
      Thanks for the heads up - tried it yesterday and it indeed looks much better now! :-)
wizeman 4y ago