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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Yes. It used to suck, say, 10 years ago. My baseline was Youtube and Reddit (back then, okay?) Could I watch Youtube videos the same way as with Chrome or Android browser? No? Then, not ready. Did i.reddit.com open fine? No? Not ready.

Then it happened. And I switched and it has been wonderful ever since.

The only thing that I miss is the "pull down page to reload" gesture [EDIT: THANK YOU ALL! I'VE ENABLED IT - GREAT!!!!]. ~~Not sure why Firefox hasn't implemented that yet. Patents?~~ And also, when a video is in an iframe, it won't respect the "block autoplay" feature. The rest is dandy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Settings > customize. Pull to refresh is there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You change my life. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can enable the refresh gesture in the settings in Firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't really visit reddit anymore, but still end up there sometimes because of a google search. Anyway there is an extension for Firefox Android to always show old Reddit. So you don't have to log in or install the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yup. I know all that. But I was talking about back then when Mobile Firefox simply didn't render reddit correctly. As soon as it did, I switched.