Never had any issues. Been using it for years. It was slow in the early days, but now its a better experience then Chrome. Might be different on IOS.
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Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months agoAnd also Firefox on mobile is kind of a hot mess. Videos regularly are unable to play and dark mode is wonky until you restart the app.
Crampon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Try the Firefox Beta instead of stable, no clue why, but it runs much better. You also get access to “about:config” back (they removed it from the stable version :-/).
krimson@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Agree it is kind of buggy on iOS.
Flawless on desktop though.
long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
that’s ironic, because Firefox on iOS is just rebranded Safari, as is every other browser on iOS.
krimson@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Yeah I know. Sometimes tabs just stop working and I have to kill the app.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Firefox on iOS is just Safari with a skin. You’re likely experiencing quirks with Apple’s WebKit engine.
lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
How do you mean? I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and aside from one website (my bank) everything I’ve tried to do with it has been perfectly fine. It even has adblock and videos play in the background. I’ve also not seen any issues with dark mode; I’m using dark mode right now, actually.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have auto dark mode during night time. In the morning, my phone will switch to light mode, but parts of the Firefox UI do not. It will be half in and out of dark mode. Bottom toolbar will be dark, but the top bar (notifications, battery, etc.) will be white text against white background. In the mornings, Youtube videos frequently wont play until I restart the app.
lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
As far as I know, Firefox Mobile doesn’t have a bottom toolbar so I’m not really sure what you are referring to there (at least, there’s no bottom toolbar in Firefox on Android where I’m using it), and the notification/battery area is definitely not part of Firefox. It sounds like your phone’s system UI is providing those elements, and it’s likely not really fair to blame problems with the system UI on Firefox.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Firefox on Android can be configured with the address / tab bar at the bottom - possibly this is what they’re referring to, but that also doesn’t dynamically change per site as far as I’m aware.
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Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It does have a bottom toolbar and was configured like that by default before. They must have changed the default some time ago.
System UI is just standard Google Pixel UI and it reacts to apps signaling to it what color theme it’s in. Firefox just isn’t signaling it correctly. It also should be reacting normally to dark mode toggle but it doesn’t because the main Fx toolbar doesn’t change to light mode in the mornings. No other app has this issue.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I totally agree, this has been my experience with FF mobile too. It’s not a killer but it is a bit annoying, especially for those of us who still do use light mode when outdoors on a bright day.
Samueru@lemmy.world 9 months ago
By videos you also mean youtube videos? Because last time I tried firefox it could not do that.