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Working great on Lollipop here. Prior version was crashing quite a bit.

darklajid 12y ago
I'm about to give it up on Android again. Nice browser. Better than Chrome. But the UI sucks. First they managed to have a different UI on tablets (phone: Tab button in the upper right corner, upper left on the tablet). Then they iterated and came out with a new (and soon to be if not already) mandatory tablet UI that just .. well .. it's bad. I still regularly try to open a link in a tab and hit 'share', because at some point in the past they decided that the menu on a link should be - share - open in tab - open in private tab etc. I'm a fan, use it on the desktop, wish that FxOS succeeds - but Fennec is a constant nuisance and complete UX failure for me.
- blinkingled 12y ago
  Yeah the ui is kind of hit and miss and performance not quite as good but it's getting there and we can have add ons! Wish I had the time and drive to contribute to the ux - truly appreciate having the option of independent browser on mobile device.
- babuskov 12y ago
  The main problem on Android for me is that there's absolutely no way to download a file. Chrome has Save Link As option for links, but Firefox does not. It's interesting that you can still download videos if you let them play and then hold the finger in the middle of the video until a menu pops up and you can Save it from there. So the download functionality is there, it just isn't exposed. This is a shame, because that download function works much better than the one in Chrome (with Firefox, you can pause/continue).
  - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
    > The main problem on Android for me is that there's absolutely no way to download a file. That's really odd given that Android has a proper filesystem that applications can (and do!) access.
- miraks 12y ago
  > I still regularly try to open a link in a tab and hit 'share' You can use this add-on to fix it (Yes, I'm author of it) https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/share-to-bottom https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/share-to-bottom
  - darklajid 12y ago
    I cannot even begin to express how great this looks. I hit that again and again and .. it's a papercut, but so damn annoying. Thank you. Very much appreciated. (Now, is there an addon to fix the tablet UI back to 'simple'?)
  - abrowne 12y ago
    Thanks for fixing my only niggle with Android Firefox!

I'm about to give it up on Android again. Nice browser. Better than Chrome. But the UI sucks. First they managed to have a different UI on tablets (phone: Tab button in the upper right corner, upper left on the tablet). Then they iterated and came out with a new (and soon to be if not already) mandatory tablet UI that just .. well .. it's bad. I still regularly try to open a link in a tab and hit 'share', because at some point in the past they decided that the menu on a link should be - share - open in tab - open in private tab etc. I'm a fan, use it on the desktop, wish that FxOS succeeds - but Fennec is a constant nuisance and complete UX failure for me.

blinkingled 12y ago
Yeah the ui is kind of hit and miss and performance not quite as good but it's getting there and we can have add ons! Wish I had the time and drive to contribute to the ux - truly appreciate having the option of independent browser on mobile device.
babuskov 12y ago
The main problem on Android for me is that there's absolutely no way to download a file. Chrome has Save Link As option for links, but Firefox does not. It's interesting that you can still download videos if you let them play and then hold the finger in the middle of the video until a menu pops up and you can Save it from there. So the download functionality is there, it just isn't exposed. This is a shame, because that download function works much better than the one in Chrome (with Firefox, you can pause/continue).
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  > The main problem on Android for me is that there's absolutely no way to download a file. That's really odd given that Android has a proper filesystem that applications can (and do!) access.
miraks 12y ago
> I still regularly try to open a link in a tab and hit 'share' You can use this add-on to fix it (Yes, I'm author of it) https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/share-to-bottom https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/share-to-bottom
- darklajid 12y ago
  I cannot even begin to express how great this looks. I hit that again and again and .. it's a papercut, but so damn annoying. Thank you. Very much appreciated. (Now, is there an addon to fix the tablet UI back to 'simple'?)
- abrowne 12y ago
  Thanks for fixing my only niggle with Android Firefox!