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Is Firefox a good browser for Android? Is there a better one?
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Crashdamage
Android Expert
It's my favorite and has been for years. I try others but always find myself going back to Firefox.
electricpete
Android Expert
A big advantage of Firefox is (are?) the add-ons / extensions. You can customize it the way you want, and add some good features (video download assist, ad-blocker).
If you use Firefox on desktop, the bookmarks can be sync'd to Firefox mobile.
If you have a fast internet connection, you'll probably notice Firefox to be a little slower than other mobile browsers like chrome. The difference may not be important to you, especially if you don't have a blazing fast connection anyway.
Personally I like chrome browser on my phone, in part because I use chrome on pc (bookmarks and tabs are sync'd). Also it makes login to various google services (I use gmail, drive, sheets, docs, google tasks, gmail calendar etc) easy and convenient. Personally I wouldn't put my google password into a non-google product (browser)... it may be I'm just overly paranoid about that.
If you use Firefox on desktop, the bookmarks can be sync'd to Firefox mobile.
If you have a fast internet connection, you'll probably notice Firefox to be a little slower than other mobile browsers like chrome. The difference may not be important to you, especially if you don't have a blazing fast connection anyway.
Personally I like chrome browser on my phone, in part because I use chrome on pc (bookmarks and tabs are sync'd). Also it makes login to various google services (I use gmail, drive, sheets, docs, google tasks, gmail calendar etc) easy and convenient. Personally I wouldn't put my google password into a non-google product (browser)... it may be I'm just overly paranoid about that.
svim
Extreme Android User
I'm the exact opposite, Chrome may be a secure browser but it will never be a private one. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's not like Google is hiding their business model from the public. But I find Mozilla being backed by an Open Source foundation to be a much safer browser to rely upon -- they just don't have the same kind of profit-first ethic that Google works off of. A typical example of this is the Tor Project uses a modified Firefox, they will never use Chrome, there just isn't a way to lock it down from a privacy standpoint.
