What's the state of Android browsers? Want to move away from Samsung Internet
What's the state of Android browsers? Want to move away from Samsung Internet
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58870060
I've been using Samsung Internet for a very long time, knowing it isn't the best one for privacy. However, the user experience with it is, for me, unmatched by any other browser, including Vivaldi, Brave, and any Firefox forks.
So here's what I'm looking for in a browser:
preferably FOSS
some control on privacy setting, less trackers/fingerprinting, etc. Doesn't have to be the most hardened.
decent dark mode for web pages (Dark Reader is OK)
bottom search bar
bottom tabs bar rather than tab switcher
a quit button I don't have to tap and scroll 2 times to find. Ideally it'd be placed on the main bottom bar
the quit button must clear cache and close all tabs, so I think it should be native and not an extension, but maybe I'm wrong?
Is there any browser that can give me that?
I'd love using Fennec as my main - and God knows I've tried multiple times to - but missing some of those feature made it hard for me to leave Samsung Internet behind. ATM I'm using both browsers BTW.
Any suggestion is appreciated!
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Firefox on Android is really nice and meets most of these. Also having full extension support is a huge plus.
Fennec is just Firefox with privacy defaults.
What are you even talking about, Firefox on android sucks. It is so outdated design wise and just terrible to use, and the download list doesnt show you download history for some reason. Firefox on other OS's work great, I even use it as my daily driver but on android. Uff no way.
Sure, the extensions are great, fantastic even. But its the only pro in a sea of cons.🤷
No idea what you're talking about as I've had none of these issues. Also Firefox on iOS isn't actually Firefox, it's just another reskined webkit browser.
I was never talking about the iOS variant. I meant the android version was bad. Sorry for the misunderstanding then.
I'm talking about the Android version. You mentioned Firefox on other OSs is great so I assumed you were talking about iOS, which is not actually Firefox.
Sorry, not an iPhone user. I just meant the windows and Linux ones were better.
I mean, no shit. Of course the fully fledged PC version is better than the mobile counterpart lol, I'd say that's a given for any browser.
In comparison, with other multiplatform alternatives its still bad in my opinion
So what do you browse on Android with, then?
I just use brave and arcsearch. I'm not saying they are great alternative and completely devoid of issues but personally I'll rather use them than Firefox in android(specifically the android version), I love ZEN browser its my daily driver on my PC but the android one, I just can't.
Why was this comment removed. Is this reddit?
Was it? I still see it.
Maybe your reader auto hides it due to the low rating?I've never seen it. Says removed by moderator
Compare these:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/34698028/17414247
https://lemmy.world/comment/15793837The user is on lemmy.world, where the comment is gathered by all other instances. It is visible for me on dbzer because that pulls from lemmy.world where it still exists.
I assume your instance admins deleted it locally for your instance only. Who knows why. I suggest you move to a different place that doesn't randomly moderate external sublemmys for local users only.Oh okay weird
The modlog on your instance has a few entries with "reason: automod".
These all aren't present on the actual sub.
Another example here is
which still exists on lemmy.world.This post has less than 30% vote ratio and more than 50 votes. There might be a cutoff under which shit.just.works simply removes content.
Which if true I gotta say kinda sucks. Maybe a remnant from the cp catastrophe?You better get used to visiting the home instance of posts whenever you see a removed comment you wanna read. Most apps should have a "source link" option, usually with the fediverse symbol, which should open the post on the "ownership" instance, so the one authoritative over what the comment looks like. My app (summit) even offers that per commend conveniently.
I barely use Firefox because i typical use chrome but if all my shit was in Firefox it's absolutely fine. I'd say there are certain parts of Firefox that is actually just better than chrome on Android