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What is actually your problem with Android FF? I use it every day on my phone.
Yes, it's not as snappy as Chrome, but besides that everything works perfectly. In addition to that: Fully fledged ad-blocker like on desktop, one big reason why I no longer use Chrome on my phone.
Compare that to e.g. Vivaldi:
The only advantage FF on Android has over Vivaldi is that it's easier to access the reader mode on FF for Android.
you can use every extension for firefox desktop on mobile, you just have to add them to a collection
And in basically every instance a FF desktop extension that wasn't made for the new FF on Android will not work on it.
I tried Vivaldi, don't really even see a difference between the tab drawers. Except Vivaldi does have bigger tab previews and buttons which feel easier to press. The lack of tab reordering in private mode definitely seems like an oversight.
Tabs in tablet mode would definitely be cool too, but I don't know what the experience is like on tablet.
On Android you can just long press links to open private tab or new tab. Seeing Vivaldi's feature bloat if a bottom bar with infrequently used buttons that blocks viewing space, and a completely unnecessary tab bar on mobile that wastes space, feels like an ancient outdated design from 5+ years ago.
That's kind of Vivaldi's design though, ridiculous feature bloat and cluttering the screen with useless crap instead of trying to preserve screen space when these single press buttons can easily be moved to gestures or condensed. You know, like modern UX design. Like a third of my screen is just gone because of of redundant buttons and UI. Reminds me of Internet Explorer days with Yahoo toolbar.
Just to make sure, we are talking about Vivaldi on Android, correct?
What buttons do you mean? The only two buttons that I see added from Firefox are the history and the adblocker control. Both pretty useful. I also don't see how they block viewing space. What else do you want to view in the bottom bar?
... that can be turned off if you don't like it. Also it's an absolute killer feature and one of the main reasons why I chose Vivaldi over FF. If you don't like it, you can turn it off. I much rather have the option to enable/disable a function than to not have the function at all.
Try to drag-and-drop a tab. In Vivaldi, it works exactly as expected.
On FF it first goes into the multiselection mode and only if you drag it over its stubbornly clingy dead zone can you rip it from its position. ~1/4 of the time the whole screen jumps to a random position, especially if you have many tabs. If you drag too early, the tab doesn't get moved at all, but instead the whole screen moves.
Other than that, I see that they fixed some of the jankiness that it had a year ago when I last seriously used FF on Android.
Gestures are one of the dumbest UX decisions possible, because they lack affordability in most cases. Stuff like swipe to reload/go back/go forward is pretty dumb because you trigger it accidentally a lot.
What kind of screen size do you have? On my screen, the bottom bar and the tab row take up maybe 5% of the screen real estate. And again, if you don't like it, disable the tab bar and make the bottom bar auto-hide.
I haven't used a different browser in a good while, so I'm not sure that these issues don't exist elsewhere, but here's a few:
For a very long time after the rework, reordering tabs was not possible. Only recently was this added again. But there seems to be no acceleration, so moving an old tab to the front takes forever. Even worse, this feature is still not available for private tabs (since you can't select those at all).
Quite often when I switch to the tab overview, it doesn't automatically scroll to my current tab so I need to do that manually.
I'm also not a fan of the "jump back in" view that shows up every so often instead of the content of my tab. Why they would assume I'm interested in anything besides what I intentionally opened is beyond me.
Creating a new tab is more cumbersome than it needs to be. I think you were able to do that by scrolling to the right on the address bar of the rightmost tab. A dedicated button would be even better.
I think it's a great browser, and pretty much the only one I use, but in my experience everything does not work perfectly.