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> 1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser.

You say this, but on mobile, the only major browser that supports extensions is Firefox. Not Chrome. Not Safari.



The only thing I care about w.r.t mobile extensions is an adblocker, and the Safari iOS content blocking API works wonderfully for that.

Wipr is the one I use, and I basically never see ads anymore on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027?mt=8


I'm a heavy Firefox+addon user, but I just don't use phone browser enough to even bother using addons. (And Firefox for Android is pretty bad otherwise, unfortunately.)


Since I refuse to install apps on my phone for services I use that have websites, I'm a fairly heavy phone browser user.. so being able to adblock, block arbitrary JS (noscript), and kill tracking cookies is wonderful.

> And Firefox for Android is pretty bad otherwise, unfortunately

I disagree. Why do you think it is "pretty bad"?


One problem I have with Firefox on Android is that it doesn't support the Samsung DeX desktop environment, while all the other browsers do (Chrome, Edge, Bing, Samsung Internet). Presumably that means it doesn't run well on ChromeOS laptops either. It's also noticeably slower than the other browsers.

That said, I keep going back to Firefox as my preferred phone browser, I still like it more than the others. And Firefox is definitely my favorite desktop browser, ever since Quantum. It was an enormous speed improvement over Safari on Mac for me when it came out, and I'm enjoying Firefox on my new PC laptop too.


> so being able to adblock

Firefox Focus is my go to browser on Android, and it has ad blocking built in (as well as cookie / history erasure).

That said, have you tried installing Blokada from FDroid? It sets up a local VPN on your phone and routes all network traffic through it, blocking all ads in all apps. It's astonishing how many ads and trackers your phone would otherwise download in a week.


Having a VPN for ad blocking is unfortunately a really bad option, as you should already have a VPN to prevent your "open WiFi" and LTE provider spying on you.


Thanks for this!


Sync, bookmark handling, performance.

Sync is the worst by a mile. You can NEVER expect a tab you opened (or history) on computer to show up reliably on mobile device in timely fashion.


Scrolling feels really off (non-native) to me, at least on Android - e.g. it coasts at a noticeably lower velocity than other apps after a sharp flick.


It was working really slow for me 6 months ago but it seems to be totally solved in recent versions.


yeah and yet there it's single add-on for pull down to refresh which barely works and Firefox was constantly crashing on pretty ordinary sites i was visiting until i gave up after few weeks and returned to Brave where i don't need to be afraid to open porn website or pharmacy website without crashing whole browser

using Firefox on desktop though, can't complain much over there, but it's useless on android if it crash even on ordinary sites




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