I have been using Firefox on Windows for ages.
But I just can’t get over the fact that Firefox for android isn’t anywhere a streamlined experience. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Brave on Android? I’ve tried Kiwi, but it was breaking some sites and battery usage was high.
Whenever I open certain websites (Google, My banking sites etc…) it decides to load a basic version of the site (Similar to the ones I used to see in Opera Mini on a Java Keypad phone). Maybe it is the website’s fault, because I’m pretty sure Firefox is capable of displaying the full website, but as an end user, those pages are broken for me. Hence using Brave.
Vivaldi if you want a chromium privacy experience. Not fully open source but works well, has desktop sync and a good tablet UI which is my biggest reason for not using FF.
I only have a tablet and a phone and until FF creates a viable tablet UI I’m staying away.
Vivaldi is not a “privacy” experience. It sure has some comfy features, but Vivaldi is not private. Use it if you like it’s UI features, just know that it isn’t private.
I have been using Firefox on Windows for ages. But I just can’t get over the fact that Firefox for android isn’t anywhere a streamlined experience. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Brave on Android? I’ve tried Kiwi, but it was breaking some sites and battery usage was high.
What are the biggest showstoppers?
Also curious as someone who has been using it daily for years what they think a streamlined browser experience is
Whenever I open certain websites (Google, My banking sites etc…) it decides to load a basic version of the site (Similar to the ones I used to see in Opera Mini on a Java Keypad phone). Maybe it is the website’s fault, because I’m pretty sure Firefox is capable of displaying the full website, but as an end user, those pages are broken for me. Hence using Brave.
You could try to change the browser ID string that is sent with every request.
Chromite, this is sounder Fork and a new generation of bromite (like the most secure and private browser on android(excluding tor maybe))
F-Droid has a few choices in it’s repos. Privacy Browser, Mull, just to name a few.
This may not be helpful, but if you’re willing to flash GrapheneOS on a pixel, Vanadium is wonderful.
Vanadium has not that many features, no dark mode, no Adblocking
They used to recommend bromite, but since it’s not developed anymore they don’t
But there’s a promising fork of bromite called chromite, I tried it recently and it rocks
Huh? It has a dark mode in Settings->Theme.
As for ad-blocking, I have found that system-wide blocking works great as suggested in the docs https://grapheneos.org/faq#ad-blocking. YMMV…
Cromite indeed looks great.
It doesn’t have the dark mode, the one that makes white pages black
The DNS Adblocking fix is not really viable if you live nowhere near that server, otherwise it will make your experience miserable
Vivaldi?
Vivaldi if you want a chromium privacy experience. Not fully open source but works well, has desktop sync and a good tablet UI which is my biggest reason for not using FF.
I only have a tablet and a phone and until FF creates a viable tablet UI I’m staying away.
Vivaldi is not a “privacy” experience. It sure has some comfy features, but Vivaldi is not private. Use it if you like it’s UI features, just know that it isn’t private.
Ulaa Browser is pretty good on Android.