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[–] 26 points 3 days ago

It takes half a dozen extensions, settings tweaks, and hidden flags to make Chrome do what browsers like Firefox already do out of the box.

The fact that I can have half a dozen extensions is the main reason I use Firefox for Android.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago*

    You are so late to the party but better late than never.

    Try out Reader Mode too, it's nice.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago

    Waterfox is a slightly altered fork. Firefox account still works on it. It is what I use on desktop and mobile.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    I just switched from Firefox for Android to Fennec, which is the exact same browser bundled by the Mozilla Foundation, with slightly fewer proprietary bits and bops than normal Firefox and available on F-droid. My Mozilla account still syncs and it all works perfectly.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

    Firefox for Android is still great, but it's nice to see some love for those of us who prefer to stick with open source projects all the way.

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    It's not in the official F-droid repository, which runs thorough code review and I quite trust, and I also do not know who the developers are. I'm sure it's a fine project, but my main concern personally was to move away from Aurora towards F-droid as much as possible. I have given up on getting away from Mozilla before Servo is ready, and until then I'm much happier to use something packaged by the Foundation than the Corporation.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    True, and I get your preference. I used to use Fennec, then moved to Mull, and now IronFox. Fennec makes sense if you want stock Firefox that’s fully FOSS and straight from F-Droid’s main repo. I lean toward IronFox because I want the hardening it carried over from Mull. I'm iinstalling through Accrescent and at least guarantees I’m getting exactly what they published, unmodified.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago
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    Firefox even blocks videos from autoplaying

    Funny thing to say on a website with autoplaying videos.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago*

    Install the "I don't care about cookies" extension for quality of life. It auto opt-out and autoclose all the nonsense about cookies and ads.

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    [+] -36 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    should have tried brave, all the performance of chrome with all the bad parts improved

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago

    The Blink engine itself is one of the bad parts of Chrome. Part of the point of Firefox is to combat Google's hegemony over web standards, and Brave (in addition to its myriad other problems) does absolutely fuck-all for that.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago* (5 children)

    Doesn't have Containers, the screenshot tool, Mini Window, extensions on Android - all mentioned in the article.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

    Screenshot is a standalone tool, why Firefox includes this?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    For taking screenshots of parts of sites that aren't visible. E.g. making a full page screenshot of a webpage that scrolls.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Yeah, it's useful in two ways for me:

    • Screenshotting the full page.
    • Making it really easy to select specific parts of the page without having to draw and precisely position my cursor.

    I think if you try it, you'll soon realise why it's neat.

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