1y ago

"It has to be Chromium"

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Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what's up.
- It's also as fast, if not faster, than Chrome now.
  
  Is Firefox for Android getting faster as expected? Last time, it seems very slow. I might switch back from Vivaldi if tests seem very well.
  
  I recently switched to Firefox Nightly on Android and haven't noticed it being any slower than the previous chromium browser I was using. I did opt to forgo the Dark Reader add-on for it though since that was slowing down webpage rendering a bit.
  
  I recently switched from Opera to Firefox.
  I was getting 59 FPS average in Opera, full bore 165 FPS / Hz in Firefox.
  I didn't -want- to switch but it's objectively faster, especially on Linux.
- The issue for me with Firefox on Android is it would sometimes refuse to load pages when switching back after being suspended from the background and I have no clue why. I'd have to open a new tab and copy the URL to force it to load and it was so frustrating.
  I use Brave now (with the promotional stuff off, even though I still don't fully trust them), since it seems to be the only other ad-blocking browser on Android that's even decently easy to use. However, I still use Firefox on Windows with tree style tabs and raindrop.io to sync bookmarks, both of which are god tier productivity tools.
  
  I get this issue every now and then with Chrome.
- There's a work around for Firefox nightly that allows installation of any add-on too, eg sponsor block.
  
  The fact that it needs a workaround is still bullshit.
  
  No work around is needed. You can install a very limited number of extensions on Firefox mobile and they are the ones you want the most. This includes uBlock Origen.
  
  hey are the ones **you **want the most
  You don't know which extensions I want most. I want:
  uBlock Origin ✅
  Consent-o-Matic ❌ - but the sort of thing they might eventually add to the blessed list with enough begging
  Bypass Paywalls ⛔ - Mozilla will never recommend this or even distribute it on its addons site
  3-4 years ago, I could install any extension I wanted. I reject their stated reasons for barring me from doing so (security, stability - those are on me once I start installing unsupported add-ons) and use Kiwi Browser instead.
- does android firefox have a desktop mode for tablets / dex?
- Wait it does? I need to go look into that.

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