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[–] tacosplease 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On my phone Firefox is terrible. It closes the app when I try to watch video full screen. When I reopen Firefox after the video crash all but 1/4 of the screen is black, and it doesn't respond to clicks on the tabs button to close or open new tabs.

So if it's a YouTube video, I try to view it in the YouTube app. Firefox will open YouTube to the home page but leaves me to find the video again within the YouTube app.

Click the navigate with GPS button inside the browser, and it opens Google maps to the last destination instead of the address you were looking at in Firefox. That made me late to 2 appointments before I figured out what was happening.

The auto fill is terrible or non-existent. The password management feature got stuck in a loop the other day and I had to force close.

Fuck Firefox. Maybe it's better on a new phone, but my experience with Firefox has been absolutely dog shit.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't Firefox on android/iOS not using it's own engine but rather a modded version of chrome or something? I might be wrong

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox as a Main Browser and Thorium(Chromium) as Second for PWM feature.

[–] TCB13 -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Then I hope you enjoy spyware.

Well… If you're okay with a unique browser ID for each installation or using a browser that contacts a 3rd party analytics company no matter your settings then Firefox is for you. Just fire Wireshark and see for yourself how much snitching Firefox does.

Also Mozilla isn't what people paint it to be, they've shady finances and are now hosting code at Github. Mozilla allegedly stands for a bunch of stuff that is be definition incompatible with hosting code on GitHub as it is

If you're serious about having a decent browser pick Ungoggled Chromium or LibreWolf.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Firefox webdev tools are worthless. My heart belongs to Vivaldi. Nothing else comes closer.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is that one xed out picture iron? because irons not bad.

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[–] tswerts -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my younger days I used Firefox as me default browser on Windows. It was fun to tinker with. The add-ons were especially interesting. Things like greasemonkey let you lay over a custom script over the websites you visited. But when I started to concern myself about the security of all this tinkering, I stopped with running script that a very sympathetic Russian kid had created. So at that time I switched to Google Chrome and now I'm using Edge Chromium.

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