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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
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How is it for mobile though? All of my web interaction is through my android
UBlock Origin mobile. Enough said.
uBlock Origin mobile with the EasyList annoyance cookie notices filter enabled. Never see an annoying cookie notice again.
This article is actually specifically about mobile! Yes it's great. :)
I like Firefox on Android, but my chief complaint is strange scrolling behavior and refresh rate issues.
Excellent? It allows ublock origin so tjatsbautomaitxlsly a boost for performance.
I don't know what's more impressive, that terrible auto correct or that I can actually tell what you were going for there (hurray for context clues)
Autocorrect had no hand in that I'm afraid. That mess is all me. My keyboard usually handles that kind of thing pretty well. Multiple words even
By any chance do you use SwiftKey? I can string together multiple misspelled words and it almost always figures me out.
Nailed it! That's why I can't switch.
It was the distinct lack of autocorrect 😜 For years now I have disabled autocorrect for this reason. Yes, I still make some small mistakes here and there but it forces me to be careful with what I type and to quickly check before I send. That way I don't have a situation where I've typed something expecting autocorrect to save me but it doesn't.
I’ve used it very briefly and had no problems.
Honestly, the differences between browsers performance is almost nothing. I’ve been a long time Firefox user and only ever encountered a compatibility issue once, but that was on a 3rd world countries government webpage for a small neighborhood.
It was more likely that it was a bug.
ive switched to firefox for desktop windows for about 1 year now. Firefox is really capable and as swift as chrome. You also get a sense of less intrusiveness. Firefox also has the multi containers widget, though for me it breaks down after a while. The big difference now between firefox and chrome are things like automatic subtitles for anything running in chrome. So if a youtube or other video has no english subs, Chrome can do it. And soon, Chrome i going to go AI too. I'm not sure how firefox will survive that onslaught. I suspect mozilla will have a firefox fork partnering with a major competitor of google (eg: MS).
I’ll admit that those features are useful, but it’s not enough for me to switch to chrome and give Google more control over the web.
It’s like giving up the house to play with some toys.
Plus it's something extensions can do
Some websites are much worse than others. https://astro.build/ as an example. Try scrolling up and down on that website on Firefox vs Chrome (mobile).
The only difference I see is that Firefox allows me to scroll faster. What am I supposed to see?
it seems everyone has had completely different results! I've uploaded my experience here: video
for me if you look closely, ff hitches and lags on scroll while chrome scrolls perfectly smoothly
It doesn't accurately recognize tap on input gestures on Android. It's super frustrating to paste text. Chrome has no problem here 😞
FF is great for mobile with the exception of PWAs. They abandoned support for web apps - they work but performance is terrible. It's a massively requested feature so hopefully they'll add support soon. I use a chromium browser (Vanadium) for web apps but have links open in FF.