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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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I've been using Firefox as my primary on both desktop and mobile for about 6 years now, and it's usually pretty great. Desktop rarely has problems. On mobile there are a good number of sites with issues though, because devs don't usually test against it as has had a low number of users. But hopefully this revitalized movement to switch will make them have to care. And that said, 99% of the time these sites are still mostly usable, unless the broken thing is important like say a login screen ๐
I've only had like 1 issue on desktop in the last like 5 years. Mobile I've bumped into a few hiccups with forms, sliders, and other elements not working properly. If I can't resolve the issue by requesting the desktop site I go to my computer or Chrome in an absolute emergency.
That said, I'd take a (waaay) sub-1% failure rate any day in exchange for having the joy of uBlock Origin on my phone. If you're on Android, I can't recommend Firefox enough thanks to the add-on support.
The opposite is true. A friend tells me some site is not working for them and they're using Chrome. I open it on Firefox and yup, works fine.
Of course, it's way more serious when the site doesn't work on FF.
@ZephyrXero Interesting. I've personally never had any problems on Android. I use Iceraven since it has more extensions and the only issue so far has been that initial load is often slow (because of the extensions I use).
Iceraven?
Fork of android firefox
A fork of firefox with more extensions available than the standard mobile firefox app.
I have been using fennec and yeah the load is slow only when i have all the extentions enabled but overall a great browser
I have been using in desktop for about a year and it's been great. I had tried mobile a while back and had some issues but with Google's proposals I'm willing to try again.