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Firefox is my default browser on Android for couple of years now. It supports uBlock Origin, and I cannot browse internet without it anymore. I don't have major trouble with it, except 1-2 cases per quarter, when it is faster to open Chrome than turn the ad blocking off and then back on.

Another case for Chrome for me is full page translation. It is very neat and mostly of decent quality.

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It you go the extra mile and actually disable Chrome on Android, even Google apps will start making calls to Firefox as the browser. It makes for a much better experience, otherwise Google apps don't honor the default browser choice in many circumstances.

You don't even need to "disable" Chrome. Just set Firefox as the default browser. I haven't noticed any Google apps that wouldn't respect the setting.

Google news app insists on opening in a chrome-based webview without ad blocking. Large part of why I rooted to get adaway.

Interesting, Google News app isn't even available here. I suppose you're from the US where they can do more shady stuff.

This is called chrome custom tabs, and there are a number of reasons they are better than webview.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/

Firefox for Android supports custom tabs and will be used if it's your default browser. The Google News app doesn't use Android custom tabs.

I don't have any Google apps with this problem (I don't use mentioned below Google News). My biggest problem so far are apps without setting "Use external browser to open links".

I've been using Kiwi browser on Android, which allows you to install chrome extensions! (Including ublock)

It's a game changer!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...

How is this the first time I heard about this!? Thanks

> hen it is faster to open Chrome than turn the ad blocking off and then back on.

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

I can't use the internet with Firefox on Android, because while is supports uBO, it doesn't support full-page translation or Bypass Paywalls Clean.

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.

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