I feel there's an opening for mobile experience on Android. Chrome is pretty terrible in that space. No extensions, no reader mode, no eacape from AMP, etc.
I can't bring myself to trust this browser. There is a repo out there but it's not the whole browser and it's extremely out of date compared to the app. Free things based on open source code that aren't open source themselves give me the heebie jeebies without a clear reason why.
Also the browser itself tends to be a version or two behind which isn't particularly comforting either.
I strongly agree. It feels like Google has been mostly phoning it in on mobile chrome for a long time. Obviously it is very difficult to take something designed for a desktop and make it work well on a phone, but there definitely seems to be opportunity here.
I use Firefox on Android and prefer it a thousand times over Chorme (because ublock), but it's definitely not bug free.
In particular, at least a couple of times a week Firefox will stop loading pages on all tabs, like if the connection was abismally slow. Killing and restarting the app fixes the problem.
I use Firefox and Brave, and the latter does the same but with a smiley:
:D
which is even funnier
Firefox has its problems; most times after opening it for the first time, I have time to input some search terms and _then_ Firefox ends loading up, and suddenly my search blanks out and stops loading. That happens a lot.
Yes, me too. It's funny, but once I can't measure my progress it's all over. I wish they would put into the number so I can at least tell if it's going up or down and hopefully get it lower. I don't want funny features, I want features that give me control.
Many years later, still nice to come across this kinda comment. :)
It had actually been taken out of scope when I unwittingly started working on it. I had enough success within the first week or so that I managed to convince my manager that we should bring it into scope again for the initial release of the Chromium-based browser.
I use Firefox on mobile, but... it's pretty terrible. Feels much slower than Chrome, and I constantly discover small things that are simply not as polished. The only reason why I keep using it is because the ad-filled web is also a terrible experience, so the overall experience with Firefox + uBlock is roughly on par with Chrome (without ad blocking).
