What Firefox definitely offers is uBlock Origin on Android. Augment it with anti-paywall blocklists and the experience is basically a killer feature for Android over iOS. I use Chrome on desktop (mostly for better sandboxing) but on mobile there is no real competition between Firefox and Chrome: Firefox just wins.
You can get the same experience (but across all apps) using Adguard, which acts as a fake VPN and MITM certificate. No more ads in any app, while still keeping your Chrome synced tabs and logins and such between devices.
Is the experience really equal? E.g. uBlock Origin operates at the DOM layer so it can and does block dynamically generated content using CSS selectors. Does Adguard simply inject the same DOM-aware JS in every page?
I dunno, but it's good enough. And way more useful to block in app ads than to be limited to the browser only. Of course you can use both if you want, but then you'd have to use Firefox or another browser.
Except there's no way to export your bookmarks on android out of Firefox without using their sync service. I think this omission (a simple export!) speaks volumes about Mozilla's true goal of browser lock-in and another example of their chronic mismanagement.
Ah yes browser lock in, from the company that makes zero dollars selling their browser, compared to the company that wants to actively harm the open internet.
What's wrong with you guys? Could google stab you in the face and you still swear up and down that firefox is negligibly slower than chrome? What will it take? Google is pushing a "feature" to completely lock down the internet, take away all meaning from "user-agent", and make blocking ads functionally impossible! When will you stop aiding and abetting this behavior because you feel mozilla is "not perfect"
In truth I just don't really care? We've gone through this cycle so many times with various kinds of DRM, from DVD CSS to Denovo to WideVine to Adobe Cloud to various other schemes that at the end of the day just aren't big deals.
A lot of the tech echo chamber bandwagons and freaks out about things like this, but I bet in a few years it'll turn out either a non issue or else alternate browsers will naturally rise to popularity. No point fussing about it beforehand. In the meantime Chrome just works, Google is whatever, Firefox is annoying, and Mozilla just feels irrelevant.
Shrug. I feel way more annoyed by Firefox than anything Google's ever done. Whatever their ideology, their product just isn't great.
