Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.
What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.
I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I’m tired of fixing the task bar icons.
Could’ve gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)
Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.
Good. Let’s all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.
Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it’s nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I’m using Privacy Browser on Android, and it’s great, bit I’d rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it’s still a problem
I didn’t know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That’s why my voyager app keep reloading some images.
Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install ‘Stop Auto Reload’ addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn’t reload the images.
Thanks for the tip! I might give that a go
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Honestly, it’s hard to say. I’m using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it’s ahead of all the other alternatives I’ve tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).
You don’t get Google suggestions and that’s moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.
You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go
It has currency conversion, but it expects specific format
Nice, thanks!
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i’ve been having issues with autofilling credentials from saved passwords on firefox android
This is well known problem, you need to restart the phone itself or kill the services… I don’t know why they haven’t fix this yet for such long time
Definitely doesn’t happen for me, that’s annoying.
I find DuckDuckGo for Android is a decent option, albeit chromium based.
News Flash:
Every single browser for Android has Chromium under the hood… Including Firefox.
For that reason alone is why I’m using Samsung Internet with AdGuard Content Blocker on my Galaxy A series.
Uhh that’s not true? Firefox for Android is Gecko based and doesn’t use chromium.
Maybe you’re confused with iPhones? Firefox for IOS is WebKit based, because that’s what apple mandates. That’s why it doesn’t support extensions. But on android there’s no such restrictions.
No. I’m not sure where you’ve gotten your information from, but that is incorrect. Firefox on my Android phone shows that it’s the Gecko engine:
Like the other commenter mentioned, you’re probably thinking of iOS where every browser is WebKit under the hood.
Firefox is open source, so if you still feel that you are correct in your assumption, and you can view it here - there is no Chromium code. Also, chrome specific URLs don’t work (eg
chrome://flags) which would be in a Chromium based browser such as Brave.Where did you get that misinformation from? I think you may be confusing Android for iOS where all iOS browsers are using WebKit - Safari’s engine. That is about to change though.
Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!
Welcome back!
There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it’s evolving pretty well at this point.
What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn’t. You do not control what Chrome does
Not many of us control what Firefox does, either… 🤷
Signed, a long time Firefox zealot
I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.
What did you switch to from gmail?
Migrated my own domain email to Proton.
If you’d like to see the pros/cons of different email providers, here’s a link for the best privacy-friendly options :)
Welcome back!
How are the developer tools lately? That’s the only thing keeping me on Chrome at work. Otherwise, I’m using Firefox on my phone and personal computer.
I prefer them over chrome’s
I haven’t used them in a few years and found them a lot worse than Chrome at the time. I’ll have to give them a try at work this week so I can hopefully fully switch over.
welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.
I suspect I’ll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn’t be long now.
Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367
Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this…but not chrome?
