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I hope Firefox succeeds and destroys Chrome.

After the 54 release, it is the better browser frankly, low latency, and not a resource hog. Plugins, extensions, privacy and security defaults all seem to be better as well.

Using firefox focus on android is pretty great too. The normal firefox on android is just slow, not sure why.

because its webview which is just chromium. They don't use the gecko engine like in desktop firefox

I believe Firefox Focus (on Android and iOS) uses the OS native web view (effectively, Chrome or Safari), but the actual Firefox for Android uses Gecko.

^ This seems right from my quick googling, there is this project for a gecko webview, which needs work: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView and mentions firefox focus' gecko build option.

Firefox on android is too slow to use a lot of times. Something mozilla should be able to do better.

Mozilla just don't care about Firefox on Android, the naive observer would be forgiven for thinking they're actively sabotaging it.

It won't happen unless Google decides to abandon Chrome.

Mozilla really needs to outdo themselves just to regain the market share they lost to Chrome. Compared to IE, Firefox was clearly the better browser, but it took many years just to become significant.

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