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To this day Firefox for Android still does not have a tab bar on tablets. Which is double ridiculous since the previous two rewrites both did have one (in fact I contributed to the former...).



Yeah, but what's the tablet market for Android these days?


I just bought a Galaxy Tab S8 after continually being disappointed with the iPad and lack of user-friendly multi-tasking capability.

I was disappointed to find that Firefox's tablet interface is just a blown-up phone interface. I have switched to using Edge instead because it looks like a proper desktop browser with a tab bar, and has integrated ad-blocking.

For me, the two biggest pain points I experience with Firefox is the lack of PWA support on desktop, and now the lack of a proper tablet interface. So I end up using Chrome/Edge on desktop for PWAs, and now I use Edge on tablet.

It's getting harder to stick with Firefox...


Please, pleasepleaseplease use anything but Edge. Edge is a complete privacy disaster, see for example link below. Microsoft does run their own sync backend, but they don't allow end to end encryption for all kinds of content, browser history being one. They do a lot of good things on UI, but would sadly have to be among the last Chromium browsers I'd recommend people.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=937...


There's quite a few chrome books that run android apps. I think it's even default these days...


Chromebooks can run the linux version of firefox, so I don't think many people would be using the android version on them


No idea... I feel like the android one might be a better fit, interface-wise for a chromebook with a tablet mode and touch screen and limited file system access like the one a friend of mine has, but it's also true I don't own a chromebook so I don't know which people prefer to use.




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