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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome. (kbin.social)

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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.

What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.

I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it's going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I'm tired of fixing the task bar icons.

Could've gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)

Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.

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[-] soniquest@lemmy.studio 38 points 1 year ago

Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That's why my voyager app keep reloading some images.

Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install 'Stop Auto Reload' addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn't reload the images.

[-] soniquest@lemmy.studio 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip! I might give that a go

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