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Firefox on desktop is pertty solid, despite some controversial decisions.

Firedox on android has a lot of issues.




Which ones? On principle, I never use chrome on android. Am I missing some killer feature?


Firefox has image rescaling that doesn't blow chunks at non-integer scales.

For example scaling up the page 120% to be able to more easily read text that the designer made too small doesn't turn all the images on the page into a blurry mess like it does on Chrome.

I've tried reporting bug reports to the Chromium project, but they can't seem to understand the concept and keep misfiling the reports as duplicates of irrelevant bugs and closing them as fixed without having fixed the problem.


Constant crashes that lose open tabs, layout glitches where display gets offset from ui trigger points (including on this site), downloads that just fail / don't work.

You'd think that this would have me stop using it, but I really don't want to use Chrome/Brave/DDG so have just been putting up with it.


Anecdotally I've never experienced a single one of those bugs in Firefox on Android as a heavy user.


I second this.

Only use ff mobile and never have any issues


I rarely find any of those things. I mean, it does crash, but once every six months, which I don't see as constant.

Hehe, we are on the same boat about not using other browsers. I have been use firefox for the last 18 years, I will continue to do so.


why not Kiwi Browser? uses chromium under the hood. allows chrome extensions to be installed, but most don't work.


Like most small-backing Chromium clones it's usually ~2 months behind on patches (normal and security) and the published source is about ~10 months behind. Being effectively closed for the release version and very small from a development side it does wonky things like redirect your "Google" searches through their servers since they don't have proper search agreements.

I.e. it's basically "an interesting Chromium clone maintained by a couple of folks out of Estonia". If you're cool with that it can be a nifty browser, for many that just makes it to unproven to dump access to their entire online world into.


try Kiwi Browser.




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