Mozilla is ready to get back in the browser ring on mobile with Firefox 120

• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

  • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    514·
    1 year ago

    You can’t set it to a custom URL… I have a selfhosted dashboard that I want to load by pressing the home button. Having a “home” button that forces you to use their dumb start page isn’t really a home button. That isn’t how any home buttons on any other browsers work including FF desktop.

      • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        622·
        1 year ago

        You realize that there is difference between FF mobile and FF desktop, right? This has been a known issue for a long time now. I’m not mistaken and I’m not mentioning it because I just glanced over some settings.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      45·
      1 year ago

      I can’t comprehend how someone can be able to self host something but not able to find literally the first configurable option on the “home” settings page.

      • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        517·
        1 year ago

        I can’t comprehend how you fail to understand that on FF mobile you do not get an option to set a custom URL for the home button. But yes, please open your FF mobile right now and show me how you can set the home button to something like dashboard.home.lan or a local IP address, I can’t wait!

      • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        416·
        1 year ago

        Tell you what, you show me how to set a custom URL to the homepage button on Firefox Mobile in the current build and I’ll send you $2000… let me know when you’re ready to admit you’re wrong.

        • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          This is one of the reasons I still use Chromium primarily. Firefox fanatics are just too much like cult members. You can point out real issues to them, like that Firefox was slow to implement hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux, or that Firefox also enables a bunch of telemetry by default… but half of their identity is based on using Firefox, so they take it personally. I’d love to have a technical discussion with some of these Firefox cultists, but to be honest most of them will just resort to ad-hominem attacks because that is the only argument they have.

          • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            For real… I got downvoted into oblivion for a valid criticism.

            And listen, I’m a huge FOSS nerd… I only use linux on my computers. I selfhost a shitload of FOSS services to maintain control and privacy. I run LineageOS on my phones and 90% of my apps are from f-droid. I say all that because obviously I would love to use Firefox mobile instead of another chromium based browser, but it’s a turd… it doesn’t have a functioning home button for fucks sake, it’s been a known issue for over 5 years, and they haven’t fixed it.

            And why is something so seemingly simple not been fixed? Is it spaghetti code? Is it on purpose to force you to use their start page? I don’t know, but I know there is no way around it. There are no extensions that fix it and none of the forks have added the functionality… despite plenty of people wanting it.