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Why does not firefox care more about the android version? (lemy.lol)
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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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[–] King@lemy.lol 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mobile browsers.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What features do you want?

[–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not OP, but the one thing that bugs me most is that Firefox Android does not have a tablet UI. Other browsers like Chrome have a tab bar and other desktop-like UI features when run on Android tablets.

But on phone I've never run into a case of wanting a feature that it lacks.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm in the same boat as you, but it seems that Mozilla is finally going to try to improve the tablet UI this year: https://www.androidpolice.com/firefox-tablet-ui-being-developed/

Edit: I went down the rabbit hole and enabled the tab strip in Firefox nightly and I can confirm that they already implemented a huge chunk of what's needed for a proper tablet UI and IMO do it much better than Chrome.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I've never noticed any issues probably because I almost never use a web browser on my tablet, I use it almost exclusively for video streaming. That's too bad the tablet experience is subpar, maybe file a feature request or vote for an existing one?