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Comment by kiwih | Hacker News Reader

What's broken about Firefox mobile? I use the browser exclusively on my android phone (it's even set as the default webview); I don't think I have any notable pain points.

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Will mostly second this, only issue I seem to have is YouTube, everything else works pretty damn well.

The tab freeze frequently and you need to kill the application.

I can't think of any times this has happened to me, at least in the last few years. (Using a Pixel 6, with hundreds of open tabs I have a habit of forgetting to close.)

Given Android's ecosystem, this is likely a device specific problem and is why I dislike developing for Android but love running Android myself.

Seconding the other comments here, I don't think I've ever had a tab freeze on my phone (OnePlus 7). Might be a device problem?

It still doesn't support most plugins, even though they promised to add them.

There's a timeline for that now:

> In August we encouraged developers to start preparing their desktop extensions for Firefox Android open availability on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). The project is progressing well and we’re on track to launch the open mobile ecosystem on AMO in December.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/09/27/test-firefox-andr...

You can enable that option fairly simple, I've been using nearly all of my desktop extensions since 2020 on mobile.

More simple than the known method of creating a list with the extensions you want and adding them to the list, then installing them, which is hacky and annoying?

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