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Please share your thoughts on mobile Firefox as that’s my primary browser. My issues are
lack of tab grouping
tabs are too easy to swipe away
you can swipe tabs away when in OS overview mode
no mechanism to close duplicate tabs
lack of Material Design 3 (Material You)
inability to disable password management
everything about Places, it feels like history is always the lowest priority and the reality is that I want history as the top priority, synchronized tabs second and search engine suggestions last
open tabs can take 20+s to load a cached version, when a full refresh takes 1-2s
when you open FF, you spin a wheel for what screen will be shown
limited extension selection
pages are randomly zoomed in
closed tabs reopen after you relaunch FF (I’ve had situations where I’d close the same exact tab 20+ times)
tab sync is janky as hell (doesn’t show all open tabs, sometimes you need to send the same tab 5 times before you get notifications for all of them at the same time)
it sometimes saves your position on the pages, but sometimes not
when you open FF, you spin a wheel for what screen will be shown
Not sure if it’s helpful, but you know there’s an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage
Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you. But your last item reminded me of this bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872511
Not sure if it’s helpful, but you know there’s an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage
Thanks, but I’m pretty sure it’s bugged. I’ve had FF open, receive a call, go back to FF, see the homepage instead of the last tab.
Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you.
I really need to get a new phone, 2gb of RAM is not enough, but I’m having a really hard time finding a pixel in my country.
But your last item reminded me of this bug
I think that’s for tab selection. I forgot to list that as well, I’ve got 100+ tabs open and it occasionally jumps to showing the first instead of the last one.
What I meant is: you read an article, and when you’re halfway through you close FF. When you open it, it might continue from where you left off, or it might show you the top of the page.
Honestly I think that desktop FF is pretty good, with only minor annoyances like:
Mobile FF though? Soo bad, the only redeeming quality is that you can install ublock origin.
Please share your thoughts on mobile Firefox as that’s my primary browser. My issues are
That’s what I can think off the top of my head.
Not sure if it’s helpful, but you know there’s an option for that right? Settings -> Homepage
Other than that, a few of your issues sound like memory issues, so hopefully they can slim the browser down a bit to improve things for you. But your last item reminded me of this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872511
Thanks, but I’m pretty sure it’s bugged. I’ve had FF open, receive a call, go back to FF, see the homepage instead of the last tab.
I really need to get a new phone, 2gb of RAM is not enough, but I’m having a really hard time finding a pixel in my country.
I think that’s for tab selection. I forgot to list that as well, I’ve got 100+ tabs open and it occasionally jumps to showing the first instead of the last one.
What I meant is: you read an article, and when you’re halfway through you close FF. When you open it, it might continue from where you left off, or it might show you the top of the page.
To be fair, being able to install uBlock Origin immediately makes it one of the best mobile browsers for that feature alone.