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I use it because it has a built in adblocker, and well it just works.

There is some crypto bullfuck and AI shit you can easily opt out off, and some talk about some CEO making homophobic comments.

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can someone recommend an alternative browser for android?

I hate the Firefox ui layout on Android, I like brave for that.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate more on what you don't like about Firefox? All phone browsers feel very similar to me so I'm not sure what specific about it you don't like. If the issue is muscle memory from using Brave, that will change once you use it for a few weeks.

The only browsers I would consider using on Android are Cromite, Firefox, IronFox, or DuckDuckGo. Tor if you're paranoid. All the rest are just messy and crammed full of AI slop.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The biggest thing for me is that it's two taps to open a new tab. There's a useless home button next to the url bar that doesn't do anything I want to do. I like how brave has the toolbar at the bottom.

I just took another look and saw you can turn on a tab bar at the top, which is kinda okish

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boy howdy do I have good news for you.

Firefox released a new bar design in October. It's currently enabled by default in Nightly, but if you can find the "Secret Settings" menu on Stable, you may want to give the "Composable Toolbar" option a spin :)

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, that's so much nicer!

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Waterfox has worked for me so far. Does seem kind of similar to Firefox though.

[–] bystander@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's meant to be the same. It's a fork of Firefox

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

All firefox forks, like Fennec and IronFox will look just like firefox.

You fan consider Cromite. It is Chromium but with a lot of privacy features. Same UI as chrome.