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Why does not firefox care more about the android version? (lemy.lol)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by King@lemy.lol to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Firefox for Android does not support Material UI, has a low minimum API level, and generally seems lacking in features. Why is that?

Edit 1: also the downloading function is super unstable, I lost several files due to firefox starting the download then stopping and removing the download for no reason.

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Firefox for Android might not be that great in terms of performance, but is a viable option out of the Chrome eco system. Firefox Sync works. The only thing its lacking at the moment is universal support for all existing Firefox plugins.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 27 points 9 months ago

That kind of changed recently, hasn't it? There's been an explosion of available plugins as if late.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is performance not great? About 2-3 years ago, they made a huge amount of improvements to Firefox performance, to the point where it's plenty fast. I have it set as my default browser and have actually disabled Chrome so Firefox is used for everything.

Performance is more than sufficient for me, and I've done a mix of playing browser games and regular browsing and haven't had any issues. And this isn't on a flagship phone or anything, it's just a Moto G Power. I don't really notice any performance issues, and it's probably actually faster than Chrome on average because my ad blocker means i have to render far less stuff.

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

No performance issue on my Firefox too. I have Ublock origin.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

if performance isnt great, then there are 1000 settings to help you fix it.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Forks like Mull and Fennec technically have access to all avaliable plugins, but it a bit annoying to set up. I don't know why they don't add an option to enable adding all plugins, with a disclaimer that some of them might not function as intended on Android.

All of the plugins I've tried in Fennec have worked just fine.

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

It particularly sucks for desktop use on phones that support it, no right click, no keyboard short cuts, and it clips a bit off the bottom of pages, and they've apparently said they have no plans to support desktop on Android.