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If you are checking something else, I recommend Brave. I've switched from Firefox to Brave and I am mostly satisfied.

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What does it offer that Firefox does not ?

People here seem to "hope" that extension support will be implemented.

If my stable Firefox for Android gets updated into a browser without uBlock Origin I will immediately switch to some chromish alternative with adblocking. There's no reason for firefox for android once extension support is gone, featurewise.

I use Firefox for Android for one reason: the ability to not load images on cell data. I'm surprised other browsers don't have that, but it's huge for me since I pay by the megabyte (Google Fi). It saves me $10/month easily.

edit: oh, it looks like that's missing, too. Nooooo....

Plus ublock origin can save a lot of data.

I am on a slow university network and I keep JavaScript off by default using UBO. It takes 3 clicks to enable it for sites that really need it, but web is much faster with it.

Try the duckduckgo android browser, most ads fail in it without extensions required.

My favorite feature is the "fire" icon that closes all tabs, deletes all cookies and history and basically reinitializes the browser.

HN mods should investigate the systematic downvoting of pro-Brave comments. It happens on every discussion of browsers.

I "systematically" downvote comments that exist solely to advertise an alternative to the software being discussed. I would do the exact same thing to "hey, use firefox" comments on a Brave-related article.

They keep getting voted down because comments like "just use brave" don't actually add anything relevant to the discussion about the subject article.

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