A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by BlackLotus89 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:11AM (#22074709)

If the nightly beta is like firefox preview then it's too early for it.

1) addons don't work yet

2) sharing of media files doesn't work https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3621

3) you can't add exceptions for ssl certificates https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1168

And it's all in all more buggy then firefox for me....

I really welcome a new approach, but since in my extensive testing it performed as bad as firefox and had more crashes it will more or less force me either to stick to an older firefox release (mask updates) or use a different browser (maybe install gecko as html framework and use lightning or something)

Edit: formatting and added conclusion

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by jaynetics on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:30AM (#22074845)

> And it's all in all more buggy

I've used it as main browser for a while and have the same impression. For instance it simply crashes when logging in to certain websites, even after a clean install. Probably some bug with cookies.

Edit: it also still uses more battery than Chrome for me. Apart of that it's a top browser.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by BlackLotus89 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:34AM (#22074875)

Yeah I got similar problems. I stopped using it a while and always come back to check out if it got more stable or if my bugs where fixed/features implemented and nothing really changed (I think one or two bugs I reported got solved)

I don't really want one of the main applications I use on mobile to crash on me

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by RadioactiveMan on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:40AM (#22074927)

> 1) addons don't work yet

It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than the browser.

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