• qupada@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately Firefox doesn’t have a replacement for the “Android System WebView” component, so any app that embeds a browser component (and oh boy is that a lot of them) will still be using Chrome.

    There’s a relevant ticket here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview/issues/167

    It should be possible to have a shim that allows Mozilla’s “GeckoView” component to implement the API, but - per that ticket, at least - most Android ROMs won’t allow alternatives to the Google one.

    The Firefox browser is genuinely great, but it’s so far from possible to replace Chrome with it everywhere a browser is used.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I’m dumb but I have had no issues using Firefox on android.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of those apps allow you to open links in an external browser instead, but yes, that is a problem