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Firefox still hasn’t fixed Bug 1938998 despite me reporting it multiple times. There’s a reason why Firefox is almost non existent on mobile. I’ve been using the internet for 26 years, and have used Mozilla based browsers since 2001, I want them to survive to the next era of the internet, but they are struggling to keep up. Opera and Edge already gave up their engines, Webkit and Blink are basically the same engine with different standards enabled, and Firefox is under 2% on some days on Statcounter. I feel that soon AI based browsers using their own AI-engine will probably take over the internet soon anyway.

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
that’s bullshit. spaces are not valid in URLs. they always need to be URL encoded. I see you complaining about such manual work, but that does not make sense, as it just shouldn’t happen!

where are you getting that URL? ddg has been inserting a + sign in place of any spaces for a very, very long time. this is not even a solved problem, it’s not a problem!

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brot@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s a reason why Firefox is almost non existent on mobile.

And the reason is monopoly abuse by the big tech companies. Apple is banning other browser engines from the app store and does not allow Firefox onto iPhones. Google is shipping its own Chrome with every Android device and they are breaking their own sites like YouTube or Gmail on purpose for Firefox users and push them to install Chrome. Microsoft is bundling Edge with Windows as a default browser and will aggressively enable it as a default browser during updates.

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expr@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Firefox on mobile all the time. Works fine for me. The fact that I get a block on mobile makes it a no-brainer to use over chrome.

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- Waffle@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ad block *
  
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  - smol_beans@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ped ant
    
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  - Stabbitha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    uBlock Origin *
    
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    Waffle@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lol yeah the comment previously “I the fact that I get a on mobile” or something that didn’t make sense. All good.
    
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AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have never encountered that bug, seems like an issue with the duck duck go not doing proper url encoding. I daily Firefox on mobile and its the best option by far with all the available extensions and of course working adblock

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- The_Decryptor@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s got nothing to do with the specific search engine, it’s Firefox thinking the URL itself is a search query and sending it as-is to the search engine.
  
  I just tested it and it sent the URL to both DDG and to Google.
  
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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use it on mobile. It’s mostly OK tbh, and the addition of a working ad blocker means it’s far better than Chrome for me.

In fairness that is an invalid URL in my book, but it should at least be consistent across desktop and mobile, or at least tucked behind an option.

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- Stabbitha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Web standards don’t care about “your book”, spaces in URLs are valid.
  
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  - Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No.
    
    www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
    
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