Only for most basic use
Interface is decidedly not iPad-like and not consistent. Here’s the example that brought me here.
Click a PowerPoint file on a website -> Nothing happens. Nothing. Long press and choose save link. Where did it go? Check the Downloads folder in Files. Nope. Open the Firefox Downloads panel to try and see … touching the PowerPoint file now immediately brings up the share options, including Save to Files. Where is it now? Who knows, but I had to download it, then open a new menu and then save it to the Downloads folder. what?!
Okay, I long-pressed and downloaded a PDF, but touching that in the Downloads floating panel (not a page) just opens in Firefox. After re-opening the Downloads panel and long pressing the PDF entry in the list … nothing happens. I finally discovered that for some reason now I have to touch and hold, then swipe left to get the option to Share or Delete (delete from where!?). Pressing Share … hangs Firefox.
Click a PowerPoint file on a website -> Nothing happens. Nothing. Long press and choose save link. Where did it go? Check the Downloads folder in Files. Nope. Open the Firefox Downloads panel to try and see … touching the PowerPoint file now immediately brings up the share options, including Save to Files. Where is it now? Who knows, but I had to download it, then open a new menu and then save it to the Downloads folder. what?!
Okay, I long-pressed and downloaded a PDF, but touching that in the Downloads floating panel (not a page) just opens in Firefox. After re-opening the Downloads panel and long pressing the PDF entry in the list … nothing happens. I finally discovered that for some reason now I have to touch and hold, then swipe left to get the option to Share or Delete (delete from where!?). Pressing Share … hangs Firefox.
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Missing functions available on other platforms
Please implement Clear browser data on exit and stop creating extra homepage on open.
always a firefox fan
- Open source: helps with security - dark theme. I don’t really understand why edge and chrome can’t do this I think these folks found a really nice solution by building it in proper. Dark mode is not a niche at all. Reading at night is horrid on a white background. I never could stand it. - talk about privacy focused, look at the firefox business model - speed, and user interface. - stable and fast, and standards based. Not sure why there aren’t more downloads for firefox. Especially because of the dark background i find it to be one of the more useable browsers.u fact it had one before safari did.
My one ask to the devs as far as features if we aren’t talking security which i always want more of: please add the profile switching (make it convenient) like chrome. It’s a useful way to manage. browser state and usage. I get it’s an advanced feature, but if i’m doing something for work like testing webpages, and making tracking harder or just managing browser state by profile it helps.
My one ask to the devs as far as features if we aren’t talking security which i always want more of: please add the profile switching (make it convenient) like chrome. It’s a useful way to manage. browser state and usage. I get it’s an advanced feature, but if i’m doing something for work like testing webpages, and making tracking harder or just managing browser state by profile it helps.
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Firefox Is Excellent
I need a browser I can use across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and ipadOS. I determine which browser I’ll use based on the developer’s stance on ads, user tracking, and general user privacy. Mozilla has been advocating for its user base for many years. They were the first mainstream browser to fully support blocking ads and stopping website tracking. The ad companies hated Mozilla for that and as far as I’m concerned that means Mozilla is doing something right. User tracking and advertising on the internet has gotten way out of control. It makes me happy that there are browsers like Firefox helping to protect those of us who care enough to have a problem with our privacy being stripped away by businesses selling our personal information to the lowest bidder. Thanks for that, Mozilla!
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Swipe gestures needed
Firefox is losing the fight for market share. You want us to switch from chrome and safari to Firefox and we want to do it. But you need to have every feature that those other browsers do if you have any chance of actually taking back some of the browser market. Both safari and chrome allow me to swipe from tab to tab using the address bar and I’m always using it.
Please ad this to your browser if not for my sake but for yours.
Please ad this to your browser if not for my sake but for yours.
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Shame on Apple and Mozilla
This is not Firefox in any way, shape, or form, bar name and organisation. In fact, it is antithetical to the very idea of Firefox and extensions, and, quite appropriately for Apple, gives the guise of choice and privacy, when this is not at all the case. The curated thought-friendly “extensions” are an abysmal fraction of the available ecosystem made by developers, and provides no access to any tools that prevent third party snooping, blocking, or anything that stops Apple from extracting its value from you. Additionally, the studies and telemetry options that exist in the significantly trimmed down settings menu, have flipped themselves back to transmitting data without ny input. Programming error, I’m sure- just like all those other privacy invasions that benefit the people who made the “error”. As a hollow shell of itself as an app, within a trash walled garden ecosystem, the developers should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of sacrifice to the principles of the browser and open internet, and to the organisation itself, for bending the knee once again, and entrenching this kind of anti-people technology.
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I want to love it but I can’t
I use Firefox on all of my desktops and I love it, but the mobile version just doesn’t work right.
First it needs to incorporate the privacy of Firefox Focus into the main app, and give users the ability to control the level of privacy they need, without having to use a completely different app with all or nothing being your choice.
Second they need to work on the interface. Too many steps required to get to bookmarks or to switch tabs. And every time I switch tabs it automatically highlights the last one I opened, not the one I’m on or the next one in the sequence.
Finally, it needs to be coded in iOS native tools. It’s obvious that interface elements aren’t native and it just doesn’t fit. For example: tapping a bookmark icon highlights the target area for the tap and you can see that the icon and tap area don’t align. It’s a little thing but it makes the software feel unfinished and buggy, even when it works.
Since it can’t match the functionality of Safari or chrome I’m forced to use an alternative, and I really would rather have Firefox on all of my devices. I’ll keep checking back and hoping for the day they get it right.
First it needs to incorporate the privacy of Firefox Focus into the main app, and give users the ability to control the level of privacy they need, without having to use a completely different app with all or nothing being your choice.
Second they need to work on the interface. Too many steps required to get to bookmarks or to switch tabs. And every time I switch tabs it automatically highlights the last one I opened, not the one I’m on or the next one in the sequence.
Finally, it needs to be coded in iOS native tools. It’s obvious that interface elements aren’t native and it just doesn’t fit. For example: tapping a bookmark icon highlights the target area for the tap and you can see that the icon and tap area don’t align. It’s a little thing but it makes the software feel unfinished and buggy, even when it works.
Since it can’t match the functionality of Safari or chrome I’m forced to use an alternative, and I really would rather have Firefox on all of my devices. I’ll keep checking back and hoping for the day they get it right.
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IOS keyboard shortcuts don’t work for many
Many of the non-US IOS versions of Firefox do not support keyboard shortcuts. Can it be so hard?
Also, using Firefox as my default browser is fraught, as Siri search results almost always cause a “Well this is embarrassing…” Firefox failure message, when attempting to open the search result link.
Also, using Firefox as my default browser is fraught, as Siri search results almost always cause a “Well this is embarrassing…” Firefox failure message, when attempting to open the search result link.
Upon Opening
I never write reviews for things. But this I can’t stand. I’ve been a Firefox user since 2006. Used it without issue as its always been the best and has always been reliable. Every phone, every computer I’ve had since then has had trusty old firefox on it. But recently, firefox had this update on the iPhone where every time you open it, it basically treats all the tabs you had open as brand new tabs and its practically impossible to go back and revisit sites again. I like to keep tabs for tracking packages, carts that I’ve built on websites, work systems etc. open in Firefox on my phone so I can quickly reference them and switch between my phone and my desktop whenever I like. This new update where every time you open Firefox; your previously open tabs now all just act like brand new tabs, is absolutely garbage. And as extreme as it may sound, if it isn’t reverted to the way it used to be or at least a setting allows me to turn this feature off, I’m going to end my 16 year relationship with Firefox because it’s just so ridiculously annoying to deal with now.
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No longer advocating for a free and open web.
Mozilla came out and said we need more than “deplatforming” therefore directly coming out against the free and open web and advocating for censorship.
Free and Open exchange of ideas is the only way to solve real problems. Will not ever use a mozilla product again.
Free and Open exchange of ideas is the only way to solve real problems. Will not ever use a mozilla product again.
