cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58870060
I’ve been using Samsung Internet for a very long time, knowing it isn’t the best one for privacy. However, the user experience with it is, for me, unmatched by any other browser, including Vivaldi, Brave, and any Firefox forks.
So here’s what I’m looking for in a browser:
preferably FOSS
some control on privacy setting, less trackers/fingerprinting, etc. Doesn’t have to be the most hardened.
decent dark mode for web pages (Dark Reader is OK)
bottom search bar
bottom tabs bar rather than tab switcher
a quit button I don’t have to tap and scroll 2 times to find. Ideally it’d be placed on the main bottom bar
the quit button must clear cache and close all tabs, so I think it should be native and not an extension, but maybe I’m wrong?
Is there any browser that can give me that?
I’d love using Fennec as my main - and God knows I’ve tried multiple times to - but missing some of those feature mad it hard for me to leave Samsung Internet behind. ATM I’m using both browsers BTW.
Any suggestion is appreciated!
To offer another take, FF has never been buggy for me. Never had this keyboard issue, or any of the stuff mentioned so your mileage may vary.
As for the bottom nav, I have that on normal FF. If you go to Settings–>Customize, the option to pick top or bottom address bar is right there.
Not the address bar, but nav bar. I like to keep the address bar at the top, with the nav bar at the bottom.
Standard Firefox:
My setup in Samsung Internet:
Firefox Nightly:
I had a Fold4 and now have an s25 Ultra and had none of those issues with Firefox either. Works just fine for me and I even have some extensions I’ve put on that aren’t technically supposed to work in the mobile browser so I was fully expecting some jank. But still works fine.