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> Keep in mind that tons of website just outright won't work with Firefox mobile

I know this anecdotal but I'm using FF on Android (Lineage OS without google apps/micro g etc. - only F-Droid) and the only site that causes issues is google.com. For some <sarcasm>unknown</sarcasm> reason it servers images in much lower quality. Of course it's not a technical limitation. If you change your UA to chrome everything goes back to normal. That was the biggest reason I moved to DDG.

> it has a very annoying bug that has been known for years where all your tabs will very often reload whenever you switch to another app and come back

I definitely don't have this issue. I have over a thousand tabs opened, it definitely doesn't reload all of them while I'm switching between apps.




I've had some issues with layout mostly and I never use google products on Firefox, but that may be due to ublock being aggressive with it's filters. And yeah the tab reloading is weird because it only affects some people and when it does it's very constant. Honestly I didn't mind since I'm not affected by the bug anymore since I've upgraded my phone.

The real problem was the add-on removal. I know you can still get them through the collections work around on Firefox nightly but... It's a pain and I'm still honestly baffled that Mozilla would just remove one of the only "selling" points for their mobile browser. I'm not averse to change and I get that it is sometimes needed to cut complexity, so I got why they needed to depreciate stuff likd XAML. But in this case afaik nothing was communicated, the new engine already supports the add ons... but only on nightly? Very puzzling




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