Anytime I say anything against Firefox, I get called a lot of really bad things, including suggestion to kill myself, so don’t worry, I dont expect anything else this time. Thats not the reason Im posting this. This is supposed to be a constructive UX review from one user, thats me. I usually use Brave, but every now and then go test other browsers. Im wondering what kind of experience anyone has with the same situation. They are mentioned in the order I noticed them.
- Tabs slide. I dont like it. I want them to become small. It feels more robust. I never use hundreds of tabs and Im sure people who do that, need sliding tabs and tabs that group, but I dont. I found online to go specific setting to reduce the minimum size in settings, but they still slide. I have never needed to search online for such a specific setting for brave.
- When I try to rearrange tabs, some movement may produce groups which I dont like. Its not as smooth as in chrome. Not as smooth, not as precise, sometimes instead of creating a new window it puts a link on the tool bar, sometimes when you move, you dont know where you are. Sometimes when i Detatch a tab it doesnt show it, but it opens the window that is below. Its feels flimsy, not as robust, a lot of times I dont get the result I want with engaging with tabs.
- Some websites have issues. Modals in the wrong place or content out of place. Yes I know, probably the websites fault, but that doesnt help me.
- In Brave when I go to youtube I can quickly select the transcript or a part of it with the mouse. Cant do it in Firefox. I have to got ctrl+a which selects also the parts that I dont want selected.
- If an image is missing, I dont see an image missing icon, but empty space.
- When i go into folders on my bookmark bar and open a link in another tab, it closes the menu. So when I want to open a few links from a folder, I have to open the folder each time.
- Cant paste an image from the clipboard into a web app, nothing happens when I try.
- Today (like a week ago) it didnt open youtube videos: The message “This content isn’t available, try again later.” Dont know why. but even if I tried to open again, refresh, in a new window, it didnt work. Worked normal on brave. At this point I went back to Brave.
Mobile specific
- It asks me each time whether to open the app for youtube and I cant choose, no - dont ask me again. I had to go into settings.
- Youtube audio stops when i close the phone. Still works on Brave.
- It often shows me ads on youtube. I never seen an add on brave
- A website (shop) where i shopped previously doesnt opne at all, youtube sometimes doesn’t load until I refresh the page. Slow to load after
There’s definitely a lot of Blue MAGA circa 2024 energy among Firefoxers on here. I use Firefox, I understand it is the sole non-Chromium browser, and without it Google would be completely dominant. But much like the DNC, they make nothing but bad decisions and are completely funded by their own alleged adversary to be controlled opposition. I hate Google, but clapping for Firefox while they fuck up constantly is actually counterproductive. People who want high achieving children are assholes to them. I am a firm believer that being a dick drives superior outcomes to making excuses for dumbassery.
but unlike voters, we don’t have an alternative for browsers unless you’re on a mac using safari.
tbh I haven’t read what you wrote past the pathetic “errybody tells me to off myself” so maybe chill with those idiocies if you want people to read your shit. also, “reviewing” the only alternative to the corpo spyware is like wading through the sewer and yammering about dietary preferences. take care.
Ah yes, here we go.
As for ads on mobile, you can install extensions like uBlock Origin.
I’m pretty sure you can disable grouping of tabs. It use to annoy me too.
Edit:
Type about:config in the browser address bar, then copy browser.tabs.groups.enabled into the field that appears - double-click on the option that appears to toggle it to false.
Cool, thx!
Stick with Brave then.
