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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by willtim on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:14AM (#20074987)
Firefox on mobile has improved enormously since Quantum. It works well enough to ditch Chrome.
Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by ycgeu on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:18AM (#20075002)
No it doesn't. For example to tap a link you have to tap it directly, links don't have a halo around them to make them easier to tap. Tapping things like the [-] buttons here in HN is very hard. It's stupid shit like that that makes it unusable for me. I don't believe for a second the developers of Firefox for Android use it every day and haven't fixed that. And if they don't dogfood what hope is there for that software?
Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by yorwba on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:28AM (#20075043)
> I don't believe for a second the developers of Firefox for Android use it every day and haven't fixed that.

Why is that so unbelievable? I use Firefox every day and haven't even considered that this might be a problem. I don't have difficulty hitting the [-] on HN, but if I did, I would simply zoom in until it becomes large enough.

Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by noir_lord on Sunday June 02, 2019 @10:22AM (#20075617)
Same, used Firefox on Android (currently on a 5.5" phone (Nokia 6.1)) for over a year without a single issue.

Chrome still had a slightly better UI the last time I tried it but the gap wasn't remotely wide enough to give up ublock origin.

Adverts are even more annoying on phones than they are on desktop so been able to run ublock origin directly on device is a major win.

Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by patrick5415 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:23PM (#20076371)
I’m amazed at the tiny inconveniences that lead people to something is totally broken and completely unusable.