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[–] TrickDacy 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing way less than 1% of people would use mobile extensions. I personally do but I don't think most people use chrome on mobile because of the lack of full extension support on mobile Firefox (which btw is coming). I think people use chrome because "everyone else does".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@TrickDacy @parpol I just wish that in 2023, Apple would relinquish their claw-like grip on mobile browsers on iOS. Give me ACTUAL Firefox, please.

[–] TrickDacy 4 points 1 year ago

Preaching to the choir

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People use whatever 'Internet icon' came with their device and live their ignorant, but happy life :)

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah many do. Unless they find out they can hop on a bandwagon, such as with Chrome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think you're underestimating how valuable tab groups are to people. I would make a full switch if Firefox could offer that feature on mobile in any reasonable way. Since it's already a desktop extension, I'm just waiting for them to be made available on Android

[–] elbarto777 5 points 1 year ago

I think you're underestimating the diversity of browser users out there.

The majority simply doesn't care about extensions. They just use whatever is already installed on their phones, as long as it's useable enough.