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[–] pungunner@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be aware that Firefox Android supports addons. So maybe there is already a fix...

[–] Extrahammer@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, I learned Firefox supports addons on mobile and suddenly the Internet became useable again on my old smartphone. Ads made browsing for me borderline impossible.

[–] swnt@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. After years I had to make an urgent booking via chrome browser in an airport on my mobile. The website didn't work with firefox. when using chrome, I always add unlock origin and similar add blockers before I actually browse - and I was surprised, that Google Chrome on android doesn't even allow any extensions at all!

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@swnt @Extrahammer, Vivaldi Android has an inbuild ad and trackerblocker, same as in Desktop, apart an own feature to play YouTube Videos, because of this you don't need the YT app in Android.

[–] swnt@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how would that solve the "works only on chrome" issue? It's certainly very bad website design to make the website only work with chrome and not other Browsers. And neither Firefox nor Vivaldi are blink engine based (which is what chromium, edge, safari etc. use). I'd have the same problem with Vivaldi as with Firefox. When this problem isn't there, I prefer to stick with firefox.

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@swnt, Vivaldi is Chromium based (Blink). Never had any problems with Vivaldi in any page, but I know that some pages us the discriminating Browsersniffings, which should be illegal, but even with this I never had a problem, because Vivaldi appears by in their UA as Chrome, ever since Vivaldi removed their branding from the UA a few years ago because of these criminal practices of some pages.
Now in the Desktop browser you can even use BingChat, because Vivaldi automaticly switch its UA to EDGE

[–] swnt@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, cool. Thanks!

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and they're awesome, but there's some QoL features in looking for. Like being able to enter reader mode from custom tabs, and set reader mode color scheme to match system theme, and more colors. Also dynamic color (Material You" support would be sweet.