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There are many choices and people still stay on shit browsers because of laziness.
I actually do a pretty good job of selling it. I tell them that I can set up Firefox so using the Internet is easier. I'm 3/5 so far
Firefox on Android has gotten quite shit as well. It just refuses to load sometimes and won't open pages until you copy and paste the url in a new tab. Extremly annoying, especially for online payments.
E: It's a known issue for a few months now. Check recent reviews on Google Play if you don't believe me. Fuck me for complaining about having issues I guess.
I use it extensively, every day, with no problems
I have some problems with sites not loading, but I have 300 tabs open...
Amateur. Try over 1,200 with the option to put those not used in a while into an "inactive" group turned off.
Hmm.... Maybe that's my last phone crashed & burned recently...
But I have the tabs open because I'm going to read them. Do you?
Well, that's why I left them open - on the off chance I suddenly find myself with the amount of time I used to have in my younger days. But, of course, now that my phone's crashed... *sigh*
That sounds like maybe you have something else set as default browser and instead of Firefox and that something is messaging it up.
I use Firefox exclusively and it works everywhere.
Unless, URLCheck (highly recommended) is somehow fixing this issue. But I don't remember having it before either.
Firefox is the only browser I have installed and it's been my default for years.
It's a known issue. It's been reported on google play but I guess they haven't fixed it yet.
No, that issue definitely occurs in Firefox Android sometimes. The tab just gets stuck and does nothing. Has been happening for years, in fact, so it's not something new. Might be due to some specific settings, but I like my settings and the problem doesn't pop up too often, so eh.
Desktop Firefox also gets this sometimes, actually. The tab just doesn't load until I bash ‘enter’ on the address bar, or create a new tab. Since afaik Firefox uses its Gecko engine on both platforms, the issue could be in the engine rather than the UI.
Honestly I didn't recall anything where things are stuck.
Are you sure that the issue on Android isn't caused by closing a link and the app opening Firefox in its context?
If this is such a percentage issue I'd there big open about it?
It happens within Firefox, without rhyme or reason that I could discern. I think it's more common if I open a link from another app, then switch away from Firefox while the page loads in the background; or when returning to FF and it tries to reload a previously suspended tab. Firefox is allowed to load stuff on my phone in the background even when battery saving is on (which it always is), but I guess FF might get into a fight with the system over available memory, with the system killing one of FF's processes/threads. Wouldn't explain it happening on the desktop, though.
It happens pretty rarely for me, and I have no idea how it could be reproduced. So, I already barely ever open issues (by principle), and certainly won't report this. Idk about others — wouldn't be surprised if there's a bug about thus among the many thousands of issues that Mozilla has.
I use it everyday with no problems