Firefox Focus on Android works much better, but it's also a simpler browser. I haven't used the full Firefox on Android, so can't comment on that.
Firefox Focus on Android works much better, but it's also a simpler browser. I haven't used the full Firefox on Android, so can't comment on that.
Another case for Chrome for me is full page translation. It is very neat and mostly of decent quality.
It's a game changer!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
Hah, so I’m not the only one doing that :D On Desktop I’m fine to fiddle, but on mobile those issues just make me start Chrome
So instead, I use Firefox Nightly on Android. It supports any extension I want to install, not just those approved by Mozilla for the Android browser. I would have a very hard time without translation.
It was added to desktop Safari. iOS Safari supports VP9 only in WebRTC. It may have changed, but I can't find any evidence that it has.
If you see it working somewhere, it is almost definitely using the polyfill[1].
edit: on MacOS (not iOS)
You don't actually know that, though, it's entirely possible that these issues are caused by having purposely limited ways to hook into the engine and system as 3rd party browser.
A couple off the top of my head...
If you do something to trigger a page load, like open the app after it has been suspended, and while the page is still loading you touch the address bar to enter an address or pick one of your "recently visited" or whatever, you will be surprised when the page finishes loading and replaces the view. It replaces the view, but you're still in the "navigation bar selected" state, so you can get them back without hitting the tiny back chevron and tapping the address bar again. I doubt this has anything to do with how they are forced to hook into WebView. It's just sloppy handling of async code.
Speaking of that same view, the top four links shown there as favicons are in a constant state of flux. Generally, it's HN, Reddit, Google News and whatever else I frequently visit, but sometimes for reasons I don't understand they get completely jumbled into something else. The icons are constantly disappearing and reappearing. It's not a big deal, but it feels unstable. I'm not sure why they don't just let me pick bookmarks to save on this view instead of automatically picking them for me. There are many things I would like to have available at a single tap, but I don't visit frequently enough to make it into my top four. Like trash pickup schedule. I don't read that several times a day, but when it's time for the trash truck to come and I forgot if today is plastic or paper recyclables, I'd like to have that link bookmarked for quick access.
I use it as my main browser and only had to go Chrome to open some trash sites (litteral “let me load a bitcoin miner in an invisible element” kind of trash)
Why do you think this will happen? The landing page for firefox.com above the fold only makes one claim about "a lightning fast browser", with their selling points being privacy, Firefox View, editing PDFs in-browser, and total cookie protection, all of which are possible in the current WebKit experience. Either Mozilla really doesn't know how to market Firefox, or less people download Firefox if their CTA is "our browser engine is better than Chrome".
Android is a very different thing.
Like, maybe they had to "start from scratch" there with new code and couldn't use all their previous magic (UI, UX) from the Desktop codebase.
But it is a bit janky and it is strictly worse than the android version, and that's because it's layered on top of the wrong engine and there's only so much customisation they can do to make it more firefoxy.
I really welcome a full-fat fox on iOS, not least because it implies extensions like ublock origin, and adblocking on iOS is just not as good compared to UBO on android or the desktop.