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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

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[–] Scolding7300 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What were the main pain points?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not OP but one thing I am missing, especially in mobile, is grouping tabs.

Chrome auto groups your tabs, so if I open 5 Amazon links looking for something they are already sorted.

For some reason Firefox doesn't seem to get this feature

[–] Scolding7300 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, although I forgot that feature ecists in Chromium based ones

[–] rambaroo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you turn that on? I can manually create tab groups but chrome never auto-groups tabs on my Mac at work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I have not used this on desktop, but it's the default on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random performance issues

Menu doesn't open in landscape mode

Tab overview page not working consistently - this one is hard to capture right now but what happens is when you have a large amount of tabs open (say over 30), when you hit the tab overview button it doesn't take you to the currently open tab in the list, instead it takes you to the very top. This is not the normal behaviour. If you open and close it a few times it will randomly work properly 1/10 times.

[–] Scolding7300 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh on Android I thought mostly for Desktop.

Thank you for sharing. I experience more issues with mobile equivalent apps than their desktop counterparts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry for not clarifying. I tried to on other comments but this is also a post about Firefox Android specifically so I sometimes left that part out.