Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended

Re:Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as in... by xxs on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @06:40AM (#24281154)

Mobile Firefox 79 is the worst update Firefox has ever had since it used to be called 'Mozilla Suite'. That includes removal of xul and what not.

I recall updating on the July 31st, it crashed 4 times in less than 70mins on random pages. It lost all its bookmarks, virtually all add-ons, 'home' page, tab thumbnails, removed/reset search engines, etc. Instead, it added totally useless collections. Ah yeah - added Facebook there too, since I just have it disabled on all levels, incl. DNS.

>A small but vocal number of users

Downplaying it like that, insulting long-time users just to score points on HN is weird and unneeded. Look at the latest version reviews on Play Store.

I've downgraded to 68 and I'll keep using until it becomes totally unusable (likely in couple of years or so). The process of finding proper downgrade/compatible version, setup and all took couple of hours as it's necessary to uninstall and wipe it all, else 68 installation would fail.

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Re:Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as in... by tssva on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @06:54AM (#24281239)

Collections would actually be a useful feature if you could also access them easily from the desktop version of Firefox. Can't think of why they wouldn't have added them to the desktop browsers at the same time except for fear of them competing with Pocket.

Microsoft Edge also has collections and you can access them from the mobile and desktop browsers.

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Re:Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as in... by xxs on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:19AM (#24281363)

previously there was similar stuff with the home page and it worked with a single tap. Collections have to be expanded out like list fashion.

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