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[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 5 days ago

I've recently switched to Vivaldi on Android because Firefox was constantly just janky for me. Now I'm testing it on Linux too, the included email client is a great perk. Too bad it is not fully open source (the UI stuff is proprietary).

[-] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Maybe give Iceraven a try. Its a FF Android fork and works with lots of add ons that regular FF android does not offer for some reason.

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Edit:

To be clear, Iceraven does not magically make all add ons usable. But more than regular FF android anyway. From their Readme:

Our goal is to be a close fork of the new Firefox for Android that seeks to provide users with more options, more opportunities to customize (including a broad extension library), and more information about the pages they visit and how their browsers are interacting with those pages.

Notable features include:

about:config support

The ability to attempt to install a much longer list of add-ons than Mozilla's Fenix version of Firefox accepts. Currently the browser queries this AMO collection Most of them will not work, because they depend on code that Mozilla is still working on writing in android-components, but you may attempt to install them. If you don't see an add-on you want, you can request it.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was using the addons I need on my Android Firefox. That part was great. I think most of my issues were more due to the browser engine lacking behind on Android and just feeling janky compared to how smooth and well functioning Chromium based browsers were.

I've tried a few Firefox forks on Android here and there and it was usually a few improvements here and there but overall the experience was similar.

A big recent issue was that Firefox initially loaded for a really long time so doing a quick search was anmoying the first time I launched it. Another issue was how often Firefox was killed in the background. That's partly due to Xiaomi and Android, but for whatever reason even mega bloated chromium browers don't do that. Then bunch of small issues like browser theme not changing with the rest of the system or changing partially that suddenly I had white on white or black on black and I had to kill Firefox to fix the issue. The Android experience has always been janky for me with FF and I've used it for idk as long as I remember it being on Android

[-] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

I am.sorry to hear this. But I feel your pain. A few years ago I had a phone where some apps just where buggy as hell for some reason. There are so many factors contributing to app stability on Android:

Android version
Possible customisations from the phone manufacturer (bloatware, battery optimisations etc.)
Phone hardware, especially working memory and CPU

My current phone has 8 GB working memory and like 40 GB free memory available. It also runs a approx. five year old LineageOS installation, upgraded each year as stated on their website. Currently its LineageOS 22.2 (android 15).

All of this may or may not have great impact on how well FF Android runs.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

love vivaldi; i found the built in blocker is so much better than ublock, epecially if you edit your sources and add in easylist or the other ublock filters.

i just wish vivaldi android would get extensions.

[-] mrsilkworm@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

You can use ironfox in android. Librewolf would be me choice for desktops

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