Firefox for Android does not support Material UI, has a low minimum API level, and generally seems lacking in features. Why is that?

Edit 1: also the downloading function is super unstable, I lost several files due to firefox starting the download then stopping and removing the download for no reason.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Firefox for Android might not be that great in terms of performance, but is a viable option out of the Chrome eco system. Firefox Sync works. The only thing its lacking at the moment is universal support for all existing Firefox plugins.

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      8 months ago

      That kind of changed recently, hasn’t it? There’s been an explosion of available plugins as if late.

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      8 months ago

      How is performance not great? About 2-3 years ago, they made a huge amount of improvements to Firefox performance, to the point where it’s plenty fast. I have it set as my default browser and have actually disabled Chrome so Firefox is used for everything.

      Performance is more than sufficient for me, and I’ve done a mix of playing browser games and regular browsing and haven’t had any issues. And this isn’t on a flagship phone or anything, it’s just a Moto G Power. I don’t really notice any performance issues, and it’s probably actually faster than Chrome on average because my ad blocker means i have to render far less stuff.

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      8 months ago

      if performance isnt great, then there are 1000 settings to help you fix it.

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      8 months ago

      Forks like Mull and Fennec technically have access to all avaliable plugins, but it a bit annoying to set up. I don’t know why they don’t add an option to enable adding all plugins, with a disclaimer that some of them might not function as intended on Android.

      All of the plugins I’ve tried in Fennec have worked just fine.

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      8 months ago

      It particularly sucks for desktop use on phones that support it, no right click, no keyboard short cuts, and it clips a bit off the bottom of pages, and they’ve apparently said they have no plans to support desktop on Android.