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    Damn that’s huge improvements in a relatively short span of time. I’m just waiting for more features on Firefox Android.

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        Seriously, I learned Firefox supports addons on mobile and suddenly the Internet became useable again on my old smartphone. Ads made browsing for me borderline impossible.

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          Yeah. After years I had to make an urgent booking via chrome browser in an airport on my mobile. The website didn’t work with firefox. when using chrome, I always add unlock origin and similar add blockers before I actually browse - and I was surprised, that Google Chrome on android doesn’t even allow any extensions at all!

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            @swnt @Extrahammer, Vivaldi Android has an inbuild ad and trackerblocker, same as in Desktop, apart an own feature to play YouTube Videos, because of this you don’t need the YT app in Android.

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              But how would that solve the “works only on chrome” issue? It’s certainly very bad website design to make the website only work with chrome and not other Browsers. And neither Firefox nor Vivaldi are blink engine based (which is what chromium, edge, safari etc. use). I’d have the same problem with Vivaldi as with Firefox. When this problem isn’t there, I prefer to stick with firefox.

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                @swnt, Vivaldi is Chromium based (Blink). Never had any problems with Vivaldi in any page, but I know that some pages us the discriminating Browsersniffings, which should be illegal, but even with this I never had a problem, because Vivaldi appears by in their UA as Chrome, ever since Vivaldi removed their branding from the UA a few years ago because of these criminal practices of some pages.
                Now in the Desktop browser you can even use BingChat, because Vivaldi automaticly switch its UA to EDGE

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        Yes and they’re awesome, but there’s some QoL features in looking for. Like being able to enter reader mode from custom tabs, and set reader mode color scheme to match system theme, and more colors. Also dynamic color (Material You" support would be sweet.

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        For me, I l’d like to go into reader mode from custom tabs, for reader mode to sync with system color, and more colors on reader mode.

        Also Material You/Dynamic Color for the UI would be awesome.

        Improved PWA support would be nice, definitely lagging behind Chrome in terms of PWA implementation right now. Fission doesn’t exist on Android yet, only desktop.

        Have your collections be synced to your profile, which definitely seems like a design oversight right now.

        Also better extension support since right now to add the non supported list it’s a very complicated and convoluted process to do so that feels hacked in.

        Regardless, I’m still very happy with the state of the Android browser and it by far beats out the other browsers imo. Stuff like uBlock Origin, much better reader mode then Chrome, and first party bottom toolbar puts it miles above the alternatives for me. Also because Firefox is awesome. I use a fork called Fennec which is just Firefox Stable without telemetry/analytics/proprietary blobs removed, and is available on f-droid.