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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox::Firefox's extended add-on support for mobile is coming with version 120, a good reason to switch to the browser permanently.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Inb4 people start shilling Brave, it's spyware and nobody cares about your shitcoins

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’ve come to much prefer firebox but I have used brave for a long time and people aren’t being fair

  • Shitcoins are optional got disabled on day 1 and never saw em again.

  • Worked as advertised (pun intended), fastest browser at the time and never saw a single ad.

  • Spying? Cant be worse then chrome. It is one of the reasons i am now with with firefox.

But i am not convinced firefox isnt spying somewhat too. Why can i not selfhost my browser profiles instead of syncing all my details with mozzila servers?

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago
[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Amazing. Thank you for the information good sir.

[–] KenLin@lemmy.one 6 points 10 months ago

Firefox sync is e2ee

[–] roht@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

I use Firefox exclusively on Desktop and Brave exclusively on mobile. Firefox on Mobile still has performance issues for me.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fix your Bot. It repost posts all the time.

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

I’m very close to blocking L4s

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

I thought it was me

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Never been a better time"? What about when IE 6/7 was dominating and Firefox came out with add-ons and speed of updates? I'd argue that was the best time for Firefox.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"The best time to ~~plant a tree~~ switch to Firefox was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

[–] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Just did recently, feels good.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yay, another step to getting to feature parity with Firefox 68!

Now give me a tabs that I can also use in phone mode and keyboard shortcuts!

I mean, it's only been 3 years since new FF on Android cut all the good bits from FF68 and before.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

A few great Add-ons have worked for a while already - I use Dark Reader, uBlock, and PrivacyBadger, and Read Aloud, but I am looking forward to adding container add-ons for Facebook and Amazon, Kagi search, Tabliss, etc.

[–] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's still not a good experience on Android tablets/foldables, just a stretched phone UI and no tab bar.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get the downvotes.

Sure, many (or probably most) people have no use for a tablet-friendly UI and a tab bar.

But for those people who do, this is a very important point. I actually switched over to Vivaldi, due to the lack of a tab bar in FF.

If they'd implement that, I would be able to go back to FF.

So I don't really understand why someone would be opposed to a toggle-able feature that you don't have to use. If you don't like it, don't enable it.

[–] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I also switched to Vivaldi everywhere for this reason. So I can sync tabs on all my devices. I wouldn't have even been looking for a new browser if not for the poor tablet experience on Android. But I'm really happy with Vivaldi anyway. Over the years I occasionally check in on ol' Android tablet Firefox, but still no tablet UI since they removed it many years ago (yes, older versions of Android Firefox already had a tab bar).

[–] jsh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago
[–] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Does it's better Firefox than Brave on Android? I mean what are the real advantages of using Firefox?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Is this the build of Firefox that drops support for native UI elements?