Mozilla could implement better options to turn off the content blocker on select sites, to highlight that this would help sites that rely on advertising survive.ĭownside to this would be that Mozilla would lose out on much of the revenue that is coming in from Android. Turn it on by default using sensible settings that provide a good level of protection and web compatibility.įirefox would feel blazing fast on mobile thanks to the integrated content blocker, and battery usage would also improve as a consequence. Here is my proposal: come to an agreement with the developer of uBlock Origin to get the extension integrated natively in Firefox. Only a fraction of Internet users cares about these privacy tests, and whether a browser has fingerprinting resistances included or not. (Note: the site is run by a Brave employee) If you check the most recent privacy test for Android browsers, you will notice that several other browsers are beating Firefox when it comes to privacy. One option that Mozilla has is to make Firefox for Android the most private browser that is available on Android. It will be tough for Mozilla to compete on a technological level, e.g., make Firefox feel a lot faster than Chrome on Android or beat Chrome when it comes to support for new ground-breaking technologies.
To compete, mobile browsers need to offer features that Chrome or Safari are not offering. Even if it does, it will only impact the market in the European Union and not elsewhere. It remains to be seen whether the European Union's Digital Markets Act will level the playing field. Samsung's mobile browser comes in third, and it too has an advantage as it is the default web browser on Samsung devices (with Chrome being installed as well). Chrome is the standard browser on most Android devices, and on Apple's mobile devices, it is the company's Safari browser. Google Chrome and Apple Safari have a clear advantage on mobile, as they ship with most mobile devices by default. While the list includes popular choices such as uBlock Origin, NoScript or Dark Reader, it is lacking in comparison to the previous Firefox version.
While usage numbers remained more or less stable at around 0.5%, it limited one of the main distinguishing factors from Firefox for Android: add-ons.įirefox Stable for Android supports a handful of extensions now, opposed to most extensions that were available for Firefox previously. Mozilla launched a new version of Firefox for Android some time ago, hoping that the move would give the mobile browser a much needed push.
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