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by jvehent 4234 days ago
In my opinion, Firefox for android is vastly superior to chrome.
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I really love it, the only think that bothers me is the annoying UA sniffing so many sites do that only check for Chrome/Webkit to display mobile.
you can fake your UA with an addon on mobile. Works for me most of the time.
I use that addon as well but I don't think that I should need to. It'd be better if sites used feature detection rather than UA sniffing.
You can help fix that! Report websites at https://webcompat.com/
The last time I tried it the only thing it was missing was the thing that chrome does when you tap near several links and chrome determines that the click was somewhat ambiguous and offers you a zoomed up version in a pop-up box. Does it have that now?
There's a contributor working on that feature right now as we speak: http://bugzil.la/663803
Excellent!
The big problem for me on Android is that it doesn't yet support the native android zoom gesture - double tap, hold and swipe up or down.

Pinch zooming is for the birds compared to that, and Firefox still hasn't updated to fit in with the Android default gestures (Since JB or KitKat I think).