I felt the same way about mobile firefox, it was the reason i kept using brave despite their shady reputation. But this looks clean! thanks for sharing
Try Fennec F-droid and IronFox, they are quite safe.
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I try to use IronFox as much as possible, but most of the time Vanadium loads pages quicker.
Aside from my Pixel 7a, the rest of my phones and tablets are either old or originally low-spec budget models. This forces me to use Chromium-based browsers like Cromite since the performance penalty for Gecko-based ones becomes very apparent.
And Cromite is my example of how the problem with Chrome is not the rendering engine tech, but the motivations of pthe people driving it. Cromite is an excellent alternative to gecko.
Back when I was very young, my software development philosophy was build your software on an Amiga 3000 and test it on an Amiga 500. Why? So that you can make it as efficient as possible while building it on the most user-friendly tools.
I still don't understand why this is not a thing. Just because memory is cheap and CPUs are fairly cheap does not mean we should just go blindly using it all up so we can spend more money on the next more powerful set of CPUs and ram.
Memory is not cheap anymore, and won't be for quite a while.
Admittedly, I've not been in the market recently. It is, however, the counter argument most frequently used to ignore the advice I stated.
I was just entertaining the idea of getting a more current S76 Pangolin today, went to see how much it would cost me to get the most basic build and upgrade ram myself, and just bringing it up to 32gb of DDR5 was over $350.00. I guess I'm keeping my Gazelle a bit longer.
Completely agree. I find it especially inelegant that we still have such a thing as boot times to wait through, despite improvements by orders of magnitude in processing power and disk throughput. Android devices are a huge offender in this aspect, though I guess few people care since a full shutdown is rarely done.
I use Fennec and Nightly on Android, mostly because of extensions. On desktop, I've been using Vivaldi.
Personally I feel that XUL Gecko > Vivaldi Chromium > Current Gecko. Especially since Vivaldi's built in tracker and ad blocker is really good and Chromium feels much smoother than current Gecko. I do hate that it's propping up Chromium market-share, but at least I can set up Vivaldi to use their own custom user agent.
I feel that Gecko/Firefox lost so much with the switch away from XUL and to WebExtensions.
Pardon my ignorance, what's a XUL Gecko?
The old extension platform before the switch to WebExtensions. I was just saying Firefox pre-Quantum was better than post-Quantum (after the switch to WebExtensions and away from XUL extensions).
I see. Thank you for a clarification!
I mostly use Firefox because it lets you bookmark a page without overwriting an existing bookmark. I have a lot of bookmarks and they sometimes need to be in multiple folders, but Blink-based browsers only let you create duplicates by manually copying a bookmark and pasting it elsewhere.
I'm finding certain security features being lacking from Firefox to be annoying. I should be able to set JIT javascript compiliation and DRM to be opt-in on a per-site basis considering the security risks in those codebases, especially considering the weaker security of the Gecko engine.
I'm also concerned about the prospect of the only browser engine besides Webkit being Blink, but if that were my only issue I could spoof my user agent.
I've been using fennec and it's mostly ok.
The same could be said of Ironfox or even Waterfox...
I'm going by what's on f-droid.
Ironfox can be added to F-Droid with its repo haha
I used Firefox for decades, and now test out forks like Librewolf and Fennec. Sometimes I use Vivaldi if I go chromium.
I usually go for budget phones, whilst my home laptop is 10 y.o. Never had an issue with performance.
Well. I did when I overused redundant extensions, but now I know better:)
I use Brave everywhere and it just works. You can even have two tabs side by side in one window, which is great for me because I can have an opened test in one tab and an AI chatbot in the other.
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