I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.

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[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been using Firefox as my primary on both desktop and mobile for about 6 years now, and it's usually pretty great. Desktop rarely has problems. On mobile there are a good number of sites with issues though, because devs don't usually test against it as has had a low number of users. But hopefully this revitalized movement to switch will make them have to care. And that said, 99% of the time these sites are still mostly usable, unless the broken thing is important like say a login screen 😅

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

I've only had like 1 issue on desktop in the last like 5 years. Mobile I've bumped into a few hiccups with forms, sliders, and other elements not working properly. If I can't resolve the issue by requesting the desktop site I go to my computer or Chrome in an absolute emergency.

That said, I'd take a (waaay) sub-1% failure rate any day in exchange for having the joy of uBlock Origin on my phone. If you're on Android, I can't recommend Firefox enough thanks to the add-on support.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The opposite is true. A friend tells me some site is not working for them and they're using Chrome. I open it on Firefox and yup, works fine.

Of course, it's way more serious when the site doesn't work on FF.

[–] grafcube@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@ZephyrXero Interesting. I've personally never had any problems on Android. I use Iceraven since it has more extensions and the only issue so far has been that initial load is often slow (because of the extensions I use).

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Iceraven?

[–] Dotdev@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Fork of android firefox

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

A fork of firefox with more extensions available than the standard mobile firefox app.

[–] jungekatz@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

I have been using fennec and yeah the load is slow only when i have all the extentions enabled but overall a great browser

[–] Mpolmanteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have been using in desktop for about a year and it's been great. I had tried mobile a while back and had some issues but with Google's proposals I'm willing to try again.