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Great, another way for Mozilla to burn money on some also-ran project where they have no expertise. Meanwhile, FF Mobile is still largely broken, and the deskto

Great, another way for Mozilla to burn money on some also-ran project where they have no expertise. Meanwhile, FF Mobile is still largely broken, and the desktop versions seems to be getting slower with each version.

Xunjin 4y ago
I want to avoid being the “jerk one”, but do you have any bench/topics which support your claim? I won't deny that FF Mobile is way slower than chrome when it needs to deal with tons of ads that uBlock Origin solves greatly.
- beeboop 4y ago
  Unlikely, parent commenter has a history of stating facts without any substance
- Melatonic 4y ago
  I have found the total opposite - Chrome Mobile slows to a hault with tons of tabs open
waboremo 4y ago
This gets repeated so much without anyone ever backing it up, it might as well have been a bot post.
tirpen 4y ago
I use Firefox mobile every day and have had no problems with it at all, what makes you call it "largely broken"?
- datkam 4y ago
  They block most extensions by default.
  - kome 4y ago
    so what. the other mobile browsers don't even have extensions... just thanks to firefox you can have a sane web experience on an android. because it supports ublock origin.
    - datkam 4y ago
      So what? They intentionaly block them... Thats what.
      - kome 4y ago
        because if they let random extensions go wild they would break so many rules of google and apple stores; they are the problem. not mozilla.
        datkam 4y ago
        Thats not the excuse they were giving...
    - lannisterstark 4y ago
      [flagged]
  - thiht 4y ago
    Do you need anything more than uBlock Origin on mobile, really?
    - datkam 4y ago
      I don't know why a pocket computer should be less capable... Because it is smaller?
- vorpalhex 4y ago
  Daily Firefox mobile user. It is buggy as hell. Back behavior is weird in several edge cases (open app, swipe to another app, swipe back, select tab, go back - boom, app closes). On top of that there is a regression where it loses scroll location on tabs in the background sometimes. Not sure the root cause here and it happens inconsistently for me. Slowness has gotten worse. I think this is tied to something with rendering because it happens on static sites. I start getting the first paint but the text just takes forever to load in. We are several years in and they support.. 14? extensions now. If you are not quickly onboarding extensions then let me freely load what I want without fighting collections. Either commit or do not. The only feature that has been added is a new splash screen on browser updates on desktop. Thanks I guess? I really just want to read my webpages, not pick an accent color. I am starting to use Brave on desktop a bit more every day. I worry about their previous dabbling in crypto but Firefox is becoming too subpar.
  - aembleton 4y ago
    > Back behavior is weird in several edge cases (open app, swipe to another app, swipe back, select tab, go back - boom, app closes). Just tried on 111.0 and I can't recreate that. Not seen it either. My main gripe with Firefox Mobile is not being able to drag down to reload the page. That just feels how it should be and I keep forgetting it doesn't work on Firefox.
    - jonas-w 4y ago
      You can enable it in the nightly version but i wouldn't recommend it. It doesn't work that good.
Melatonic 4y ago
No idea what you are talking about - I find Firefox desktop working better than ever and never run into issues with Firefox mobile on Android. I even run the dev nightly version on both so I can have a completely separate browser (and separate profiles) for testing.

Xunjin 4y ago

I want to avoid being the “jerk one”, but do you have any bench/topics which support your claim? I won't deny that FF Mobile is way slower than chrome when it needs to deal with tons of ads that uBlock Origin solves greatly.

beeboop 4y ago
Unlikely, parent commenter has a history of stating facts without any substance
Melatonic 4y ago
I have found the total opposite - Chrome Mobile slows to a hault with tons of tabs open

waboremo 4y ago

This gets repeated so much without anyone ever backing it up, it might as well have been a bot post.

tirpen 4y ago

I use Firefox mobile every day and have had no problems with it at all, what makes you call it "largely broken"?

datkam 4y ago
They block most extensions by default.
- kome 4y ago
  so what. the other mobile browsers don't even have extensions... just thanks to firefox you can have a sane web experience on an android. because it supports ublock origin.
  - datkam 4y ago
    So what? They intentionaly block them... Thats what.
    - kome 4y ago
      because if they let random extensions go wild they would break so many rules of google and apple stores; they are the problem. not mozilla.
      - datkam 4y ago
        Thats not the excuse they were giving...
  - lannisterstark 4y ago
    [flagged]
- thiht 4y ago
  Do you need anything more than uBlock Origin on mobile, really?
  - datkam 4y ago
    I don't know why a pocket computer should be less capable... Because it is smaller?
vorpalhex 4y ago
Daily Firefox mobile user. It is buggy as hell. Back behavior is weird in several edge cases (open app, swipe to another app, swipe back, select tab, go back - boom, app closes). On top of that there is a regression where it loses scroll location on tabs in the background sometimes. Not sure the root cause here and it happens inconsistently for me. Slowness has gotten worse. I think this is tied to something with rendering because it happens on static sites. I start getting the first paint but the text just takes forever to load in. We are several years in and they support.. 14? extensions now. If you are not quickly onboarding extensions then let me freely load what I want without fighting collections. Either commit or do not. The only feature that has been added is a new splash screen on browser updates on desktop. Thanks I guess? I really just want to read my webpages, not pick an accent color. I am starting to use Brave on desktop a bit more every day. I worry about their previous dabbling in crypto but Firefox is becoming too subpar.
- aembleton 4y ago
  > Back behavior is weird in several edge cases (open app, swipe to another app, swipe back, select tab, go back - boom, app closes). Just tried on 111.0 and I can't recreate that. Not seen it either. My main gripe with Firefox Mobile is not being able to drag down to reload the page. That just feels how it should be and I keep forgetting it doesn't work on Firefox.
  - jonas-w 4y ago
    You can enable it in the nightly version but i wouldn't recommend it. It doesn't work that good.

Melatonic 4y ago

No idea what you are talking about - I find Firefox desktop working better than ever and never run into issues with Firefox mobile on Android. I even run the dev nightly version on both so I can have a completely separate browser (and separate profiles) for testing.