The final push to start using Firefox over Chrome on Android might finally be thanks to the enormous selection of add-ons (Firefox’s version of extensions) coming out next month. Chrome doesn’t offer native support for extensions in its mobile app. Also, better security.

  • hellequin67
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    7 months ago

    IF FF ever implement support for tabs on tablets I might consider using it.

    I only use phone and tablet and to use a glorified phone app on a tablet is not a great experience. Almost every other browser in existence supports tags for larger screens.

    Until FF fixes this it doesn’t matter how many extensions they allow in the browser I’m out.

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      7 months ago

      If treestyletabs worked on mobile that would work great. Just make the tabs bigger. Then again I think the UI is totally different on mobile so I feel the pain.

      I have been using firefox on a phone since 2014 at least. I particularly like I can just go “send this tab to my PC” and it’ll just be there without bothering with bookmarks, note apps, emails to myself or such.

      I once had a text file on a VPS I would ssh on my phone to and paste links into. Blah.

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      7 months ago

      Completely agree. The tablet experience licks balls.

      Tabs are needed, and god knows what it thinks its doing when you tell it to load the desktop version of a site. Apparently it thinks I clicked a button saying “embeggen all elements and waste screen space pls”…

      Enjoy it on phone, mind.

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          7 months ago

          Works fine on other browsers though. Not techy enough to say if your wrong or right, but the experience I have on a Tab s8 ultra is that ‘desktop’ versions are all zoomed in looking on FF.

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        7 months ago

        I agree, on the phone it’s a great app.

        My problem is that as I only use tablet and phone it doesn’t make sense to use two different browsers so until it’s changed Vivaldi it is.