Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive

Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by mwilliaams on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:40AM (#15836328)

Check out FF nightly on Android. It has the new features. I use it and it's great

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by tempestn on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:03AM (#15836558)

You're not going to install a nightly build on your friend's or mom's phone though. Your parent is already sold on FF; just waiting for Quantum to be released on Android before pushing it.

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by chrismorgan on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:57AM (#15837208)

I can think of only one crash in the best part of a year of using Firefox Nightly exclusively on my phone. (Firefox Nightly on my laptop has been far more heavily used for a number of years and has had a handful of crashes and a few other issues, but still fewer crashes at least than I get the impression production Chrome has.)

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by mwilliaams on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:02AM (#15884954)

I've had a few crashes with it. But nothing serious or really different from Chrome. There's also FF developer edition, which is more stable.

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by mattmanser on Sunday December 03, 2017 @05:17AM (#15836931)

Firefox on android kills my phone, gobbles tons of memory. Nexus 5x, no plugins.

I've given up on it now.

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by ams6110 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @02:28PM (#15839029)

Have you tried Firefox Focus?

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by moz23 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#15839222)

Focus is chrome with a different skin and ads blocked. Literally, it's WebView which is Chrome.

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