Mozilla is ready to get back in the browser ring on mobile with Firefox 120

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.

  • stifle867@programming.devEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    “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.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

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

  • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Zerfallen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

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

    • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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 FF. But I’m really happy with Vivaldi now. 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).

        • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I tried a full switch to Vivaldi, but desktop Vivaldi was quite buggy for me, so now I’m running split: FF on Desktop, Vivaldi on Android.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year 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 Translate, container add-ons for Facebook and Amazon, Kagi search, Tabliss, etc.

    • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      Why? Mozilla isn’t a threat to open web like Google has shown that they are and they certainly can use all the support they can get.

      • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yeah but Mozilla has been getting shittier and shittier as time goes on. I think it all started when they forced extensions into FF without the ability to remove them, only to go into the settings and disable them (which doesn’t even fully work). And most of the de-Mozillafied alternatives (like Waterfox which pretty much the only benefit is no Mozilla telemetry) have a lot of their own problems assuming you want a normal casual browsing experience (so no Librewolf or Tor)

        Mozilla’s better than e.g. Google or Microsoft but at the end of the day they’re still a company that often makes anti-user decisions (although being technically non-profit helps them be significantly less bad). They’ve started converging towards those companies in a lot of ways, and they’ve been trying to make the browser more like Chromium browsers equally as much.

        Also due to their bad priorities FF is noticeably worse in a lot of ways thab e.g. Edge (as in performance/resource usage by a long shot)