Unfortunately crippled by iOS
I use Firefox across all my platforms, and therefore it’s useful to be able to synchronise bookmarks etc. through their account sync. So I installed it on my iPad, assuming I could use it as normal. For the most part, this is true. However for some sites (mostly secure ones, such as online banking), the Firefox app is constantly identified as either ‘out of date’ or ‘unsupported’. I understand that this is because, owing to Apple’s restrictions, the Firefox app does not actually identify itself as Firefox to websites, thereby meaning it cannot be used on certain sites. It’s stupid and controlling of Apple not to allow genuine browser competition. Remember when windows was forced not to install internet explorer as the default browser without offering valid alternatives? Surely this is a similar form of anti competition...
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Problème d’images et de visuels
j’adore à Firefox et je l’utilise depuis longtemps sur mon ordinateur. Par contre, sur mon téléphone l’application ne fonctionne pas bien. Je ne vois pas la plupart des images, le fond est noir au lieu d’être blanc..... et les sites deviennent tous déstructurés. Je suis obligée d’utiliser Safari..😔
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It’s Good!
Hey, it’s really good. You should download it. It’s a really fast browser n stuff. But could you please bring back the private browser ? Because when I downloaded it again I couldn’t go into private. Thanks. 💓
Gets the basics right with ample room for improvement
I have only been using this browser on my iPad for a short while although I can safely say that it gets most of what I need absolutely on point. It’s fast, slick and easy to use and perhaps most importantly of all it handles PDFs properly (unlike Chrome) which is essential to my workflow.
A couple of suggestions for improvement:
Font rendering is not particularly nice. Generally looks quite fuzzy and unpleasant, UI elements in particular.
The ability to re-arrange tabs. When I have a lot of tabs open I like to be able to re-arrange them to bring related tabs closer to one another. It is a major inconvenience having to open the tab overview in order to switch between two tabs that have ended up very far apart.
A couple of suggestions for improvement:
Font rendering is not particularly nice. Generally looks quite fuzzy and unpleasant, UI elements in particular.
The ability to re-arrange tabs. When I have a lot of tabs open I like to be able to re-arrange them to bring related tabs closer to one another. It is a major inconvenience having to open the tab overview in order to switch between two tabs that have ended up very far apart.
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Very buggy, after many releases still no fixes.
As much as I love the team at Mozilla, their testing team just isn’t doing good. In terms of mobile devices they do not address issues even after many releases.
Many times the entire app will be unresponsive to any gestures, making you force quit the application and restarting it. Sometimes you also have to close the tab even after a restart. Second, is their copy and paste... you must hold longer than apples normal settings to even copy a link. Normally you could click once on the address bar to select the entire thing but Mozilla thinks we want to edit the middle of our link when we click on it. Another is pop up light boxes are very buggy and become unresponsive. As you’re adding new features please also keep in mind to fix your bugs. I am no longer using this browser after 3 months of skeptical transition to a new browser but it seems I’ll be heading back to chrome for now. Sorry Team @ Mozilla.
Many times the entire app will be unresponsive to any gestures, making you force quit the application and restarting it. Sometimes you also have to close the tab even after a restart. Second, is their copy and paste... you must hold longer than apples normal settings to even copy a link. Normally you could click once on the address bar to select the entire thing but Mozilla thinks we want to edit the middle of our link when we click on it. Another is pop up light boxes are very buggy and become unresponsive. As you’re adding new features please also keep in mind to fix your bugs. I am no longer using this browser after 3 months of skeptical transition to a new browser but it seems I’ll be heading back to chrome for now. Sorry Team @ Mozilla.
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Nice to be able to use this again!
I used to use Firefox all the time on desktop but now find it painful to use. By contrast the iPad version is surprisingly good, I've tried Opera Coast, Dolphin, Chrome and a couple of others I forget the name of, but I'm sticking with this now. I still use Safari because of its integral workflow, but when I initialise my own browsing session this is what I have been using for about six months now and I'm sticking with it. The only gripe is that I would like to be able to rearrange my bookmarks in some sort of order other than the order I saved them in. A basic filing system for bookmarks wouldn't go amiss either. Small gripes though for an otherwise very handy browser.
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Not working
I have created an account but it won’t let me sign in. I’ve been trying for over an hour. I’m done. Deleting account
Keeps Crashing after Sept. 7/2017 update
Keeps crashing every few minutes. Considering my internet sucks and every time it crashes I have to wait for the page to reload, wait several times while scrolling down to where I left off for the page to continue loading is very annoying. I just get to where I left off and it crashes again! It's getting to the point where I'll just switch to Safari which I hate till a fix comes.
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