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by Ikatza 916 days ago
Extensions are nice to have, but pointless as long as FF for Android doesn't render most pages correctly (HN, for example).
6 comments

Care to expand a bit?

I've been daily driving FF Android for a few years now and I've had the opposite experience: the vast majority of pages work and render fine (including HN) and it's an extremely rare occasion that I switch to Chrome to use a website. Even then, I often find that Chrome isn't any better and the underlying issue was the website's mobile handling in general (e.g. touch events working differently than mouse events, or just a completely broken mobile-only component swaps)

Firefox paradox strikes again. User brings up an unrelated thing, even if valid, to lessen something positive.

You seen this pattern again and again in Firefox news threads.

> something positive

You mean "we reluctantly unbroke what we previously deliberatly broke".

Ironically, the few times that I see Firefox (for Android) render something wrong, it's because of an addon that is messing with the wrong stuff.
I've never seen HN rendered incorrectly in any desktop or android FF version, what do you mean?
I'm using HN on Firefox for Android right now and it looks totally normal. What are you talking about?
I've been using Firefox and only Firefox on Android for HN for... at least 5 years.

What are you going on about?

HN is a basic site, Lynx on MS DOS could render it.