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Firefox on Android could maybe be the best, and I use it exclusively, but it's certainly not without its flaws:

- the confusing home screen comes up all the time after i leave the browser, while i just want to get back to the last tab

- try closing all private tabs, it then goes on to show the now empty list of private tabs, wtf? The point of closing the tabs was to get back to the regular tabs.

- for all i care a private tab can just be listed next to a normal tab, the grouping in private tabs serves no purpose, except for surfacing implementation details

- filtering bookmarks on tags doesn't work in any version AFAIK

- but it's the only way to listen to youtube, with ublock origin and Youtube audio_only



I have it set to open in private mode by default, and there's no easy way to then open that site in a new regular tab. Like if I get to a reddit link that I want to comment on, I have to copy the URL, then open a new public tab and open that URL (five touches). Why is there no "Open in normal tab" option?

Also, if I use "Add to home screen" to be able to get to a site quickly, there's no way to open that in a normal tab, making it useless for many things.


The "confusing home screen" comes up every 4h you can set it up to always show the last tab, I should have explained it on the last part of the post.




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