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I switched from long time chrome using to Firefox 2 weeks ago. I also installed the android app. It seems rather slow and the android app is horribly buggy. I g

I switched from long time chrome using to Firefox 2 weeks ago. I also installed the android app. It seems rather slow and the android app is horribly buggy. I gave up and switched to Brave. Now Brave on Android isn't great either but it works. I don't quite understand the appeal of Firefox other than it maybe having the same appeal as Linux Desktop or LibreOffice(being free and an open alternative).

tedivm 2y ago
I'm curious what extensions you installed and what your hardware looks like. I've found firefox to be faster than chrome, but I know others have run into issues like you describe.
- k8sToGo 2y ago
  I should probably say that performance was certainly not the number one reason, as benchmark numbers are irrelevant for human users, but I was running it on M3 Pro MacBook Pro and on Galaxy S24+ each with ublock origin and dark reader.
Loughla 2y ago
What do you use for hardware and extensions? I'm currently using Firefox on Android, and have for years and years, and have never found a bug.
- k8sToGo 2y ago
  Firefox on Android to this day does not switch to dark mode automatically https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529
mrguyorama 2y ago
I have used Firefox on android since 2018. I have never encountered a bug. Not a UI hiccup, not something doing something unexpected, not slowdowns, not crashing, not anything. I routinely open links in the default android browser (chrome now), and it literally crumbles under the weight of ads in your average article, and then open it in firefox and uBlock means it runs great and any issue I was having disappears. >I don't quite understand the appeal of Firefox It's not chromium based, so Google can't force it to grow in the direction that only benefits their infrastructure like they do so much with chrome, and uBlock is a strictly better ad blocking system than anything I have ever used. I don't think Brave is independent, as they are beholden to the Chrome team's architectural decisions and design goals. It attempts to send less tracking information to people tracking me (with a caveat that Mozilla themselves do a little first party tracking and advertising, which I consider morally less wrong than Google's entire business), and is not incentivized to make the web a worse place for the sole purpose of increasing Google's share price.

tedivm 2y ago

I'm curious what extensions you installed and what your hardware looks like. I've found firefox to be faster than chrome, but I know others have run into issues like you describe.

k8sToGo 2y ago
I should probably say that performance was certainly not the number one reason, as benchmark numbers are irrelevant for human users, but I was running it on M3 Pro MacBook Pro and on Galaxy S24+ each with ublock origin and dark reader.

Loughla 2y ago

What do you use for hardware and extensions? I'm currently using Firefox on Android, and have for years and years, and have never found a bug.

k8sToGo 2y ago
Firefox on Android to this day does not switch to dark mode automatically https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529

mrguyorama 2y ago

I have used Firefox on android since 2018. I have never encountered a bug. Not a UI hiccup, not something doing something unexpected, not slowdowns, not crashing, not anything. I routinely open links in the default android browser (chrome now), and it literally crumbles under the weight of ads in your average article, and then open it in firefox and uBlock means it runs great and any issue I was having disappears. >I don't quite understand the appeal of Firefox It's not chromium based, so Google can't force it to grow in the direction that only benefits their infrastructure like they do so much with chrome, and uBlock is a strictly better ad blocking system than anything I have ever used. I don't think Brave is independent, as they are beholden to the Chrome team's architectural decisions and design goals. It attempts to send less tracking information to people tracking me (with a caveat that Mozilla themselves do a little first party tracking and advertising, which I consider morally less wrong than Google's entire business), and is not incentivized to make the web a worse place for the sole purpose of increasing Google's share price.