• Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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    Just wanted to mention that Firefox and Mull for Android allow you to do that. They are also much better than Chrome or any Chromium based browser, as they allow proper adblockers and they don’t support Google’s monopoly on the browser rendering engines which is just bad for the open internet in general. Mull also significantly improves your privacy by using many patches from the Tor Browser.

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      The only downside to using Firefox on Android is that Google search results can take forever to load unless you clear site cookies. And Google Image search is awful.

      However that’s all fixed if you use Duck Duck Go instead.

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        You shouldn’t use Google anyway. Honestly, fuck Google and their surveillance ecosystem. If you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

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        i believe that’s all fixed if you install the Google Search Fixer, or at least ive never had problems using google search on firefox android after installing that

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          I believe that it’s also fixed by just using DuckDuckGo. Fuck Google, if you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

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        or use bing, I’ve switched to bing recently and it’s be come an overall. more enjoyable experience. Of course, using something like Duck Duck go instead of using a big company alternative is better in any case.

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    Why would Google code for its opponent’s OS first? Not that I use Chrome, anyway. Firefox has had that feature for ages.

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      Does it matter? The iOS app and Android app are almost certainly made by two different teams that operate independently.

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      The reason is probably really mundane, like the iOS Chrome team and Android Chrome team not working in lockstep or something of the sort. Like the iOS team planned it for 2023 Q4 and the Android team for 2024 Q1

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        I would recommend arkenfox over librewolf, that way you can use an up to date browser, with the same privacy and greater flexibility to enable features you may want (e.g. no letterbox etc).

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          LibreWolf massively improved it’s update schedule and you can disable any feature you dislike. They have a separate page in the normal user-facing settings for disabling stuff like letterboxing, no need to use about:config. It’s better for new users, but also just more convenient for power users. Having to explain how to harden Firefox to a new user would not be ideal.

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        how did I not know about this??

        The first thing I do whenever I install anything is to go through the settings. To turn off trackers, analytics and explore the accessibility features.

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    Being at the bottom makes more sense on today’s larger phones. I’m just so used to it being at the top it’s hard to get used to it being at the bottom of the screen.

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    My old windows phone did this and I loved it. I’m surprised its taking Google this long to do this. Not that I use chrome but still

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    lol, if chrome isn’t going to allow it on android then what’s the point? Safari offers it (if it’s the only feature you care about), and is a lot better then chrome.

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      It actually exists in the codebase, but is disabled. ‘The feature is not yet available for Android but was previously tested on the platform.’

      Cromite browser let’s you do this.

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      Use Firefox. And also switch away from Google as your search engine. DuckDuckGo is great but if you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

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    funny enough… it was a feature flag to move it to the bottom on android for a while before but they removed that too