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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mikestevens@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

Because damn that's annoying. With phones being massive now, it makes little sense to make us reach up to the top of the screen to swipe between tabs. Do all their chrome devs just have super long fingers..?

I tried switching to Firefox, which has the URL box at the bottom, but the lack of tab grouping (not the same thing as Firefox's tab collections) is really annoying. I've come to love that feature in Chrome!

So, next question... What's your fave browser on Android, and how well does it handle syncing with the desktop?

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[-] Devgard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

hate the fact that chrome killed the bottom address bar.

i use vivaldi and it covers all the bases (and a lot more, heck it even has its own Mastodon server)

[-] riot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

At this point, I just can't do without Stacks, Tile view, Sessions and Work Spaces. The build-in Periodic Reload is also great, but by far, the most incredible feature is that you can customize your right-click menues however you like. I also have a lot of Command Chains set up in the Quick Command bar.

The amount of stuff that you can customize in Vivaldi has been without parallel for me.

[-] TheCookieButter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox nightly 100%

Being able to use Add-ons makes it world's better than other mobile browser's. I use Firefox on my desktop so it's all synced between and I can grab tabs from either which is handy too.

I have to use Microsoft Launcher because I have a Pixel and the ad-riddled Google search is baked into Pixel's native launcher.

[-] circuit@partizle.com 0 points 2 years ago

Bit out of scope of the post but do you recommend Microsoft launcher? I have a pixel as well and the google search bar on the bottom annoys me.

[-] TheCookieButter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I do recommend it. Offers a lot more customisation. The At a Glance is worlds more useful than Google's news section and the Microsoft news is better).

It lets you overhaul the whole layout. I replaced the Google search with a bing search widget which opens up in Firefox. Can also just put a Firefox widget if you prefer.

So nice not having every search appear in a temporary window that disappears when I search a second thing. Even nicer not to have adverts on every search.

[-] anders@rytter.me 1 points 2 years ago

@mikestevens I use Firefox on both phone and pc and use Firefox Sync to sync between them.

[-] cascadingsymmetry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Samsung Internet keeps this feature. It's honestly a very decent browser actually. I fing it light with all the features I need.

[-] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I use Firefox Desktop and app, but I'd love to bee able to zoom images on google search without opening the link, as I can using the Chrome app.

[-] haxasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

You can do that on desktop with Imagus extension, but it's not out for Android. You just hover the mouse over the image and works with many websites.

[-] cascadingsymmetry@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Samsung Internet is honestly an underrated browser. It has the ability to put the navigation bar at the bottom. I like a lot of its features and how light it is.

[-] mikestevens@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I like the Samsung browser too. I think I'm just too obsessed with chrome's tab grouping. Can't bring myself to give it up!

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