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.

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    741·
    10 months ago

    Inb4 people start shilling Brave, it’s spyware and nobody cares about your shitcoins

  • stifle867@programming.devEnglish
    232·
    10 months 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
      22·
      10 months 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
    81·
    10 months 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.

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

  • Zerfallen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    10 months 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·
      10 months 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
        1·
        10 months 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. But I’m really happy with Vivaldi anyway. 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).

    • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months 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·
        10 months 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)