Moonchild wrote:Regardless of the browser, I think Fennecs are cute looking animals.
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They're cute until they open their mouths.
Moonchild wrote:Regardless of the browser, I think Fennecs are cute looking animals.
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I did say cute-lookingIsengrim wrote:They're cute until they open their mouths.Moonchild wrote:Regardless of the browser, I think Fennecs are cute looking animals.
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Thank you Handyman1957 and hujan86Thehandyman1957 wrote:Thank you for this suggestion. I downloaded it and played with it for a bithujan86 wrote:There is the Android version of Waterfox. I disabled Chrome and use this browser exclusively on my phone.
and liked it a lot. The fact that you can use Ublock Origin and ABP was
huge factor. I also like the layout and workings of the browser. Much
better than the very outdated Opera beta I have been using for years.
One of the coolest things I think for me is the ability to change the font
size of the web pages to the default size your using in Android. This makes
surfing and reading pages much easier as you don't have to pinch and expand
or double tap most pages.
So far, it's the best I have used and is much better than the older F.F. browser
of a few years ago. Pretty snappy too. The ability to use some popular add on's
from F.F. is a huge plus.
And of course, having the crap from F.F. removed or disabled is the biggest of them all.
I'm not surprised that you had issues with Waterfox for Android. The reviews when it was up on the Google Play Store were not good.
Mobile is secondary to my normal use. It's already cumbersome to properly browse on mobile, so when I do use a browser there, I want one that works without hiccups. Using the native browser for the OS is the logical choice there.
The words I highlighted in the quote above are really chilling, especially coming from MoonChild, who is familiar with the code and knows what he is talking about. To this point, I've always figured that despite all the well documented things Firefox does that are sub-optimal from a user control and user privacy perspective, that they aren't as bad as Chrome in those areas overall. This makes me question my assumption a bit.
Features? Of course - telemetry so to speak.CharmCityCrab wrote: ↑2019-05-11, 19:27add-ons Firefox pre-installs and then doesn't list on the normal add-ons page because, given that they ship on every copy of the browser, they are defacto browser features
It's for the best. WF for Android never received a single bug fix since 2018. More useless now after the FF extension fiasco, assuming the developer didn't plan to support its own mobile browser as much as its desktop counterpart.CharmCityCrab wrote: ↑2019-05-11, 05:22I looked for WF for Android during the Great Firefox Extension Certificate Crisis of 2019, and couldn't even find it at that point. It didn't appear to have a Google Play page anymore and wasn't listed on the Waterfox home page with the downloads for other platforms. Anyone know what the deal is there? Did they discontinue it?
What don't you like about Android Firefox?Thehandyman1957 wrote: ↑2019-05-11, 04:15Well, this has been an interesting road to travel on. I really thought I had finally
found something that would fill the needs for my mobile browsing, and then this
crazy F.F. WaterFox issue came up and disabled my Ublock Origin and Ad Block Plus.
If at all you care about your privacy, and using adblocking software that doesn't run a local VPN (that conflicts with any other ones you use), you do. Also the ability to run Titanium Backup and backup all your apps and their data together.RJARRRPCGP wrote: ↑2019-01-30, 03:06IIHC, you don't need to "jailbreak" Android phones like you have to with cough cough Apple iPhones.