These are the pros I’ve found of each browser vs the other. Over time it’s become my list of grievances with Firefox (Fenix) on Android.
Bromite
- Can print pages
- Can use JavaScript bookmarklets
- More accurate Address form fill
Better credit card form fill(FF is on par now)- Can directly load homepage on new tab
- Can save pages offline
- Better inline PDF viewer / printer (without dithering)
- doesn’t have stupid tab share bug (??)
- doesn’t have stupid tab replace bug (??)
- doesn’t have stupid tab reload bug
doesn’t have stupid overstretched bugresolved in FF106- Better text selection (try selecting a full line of text without it wrapping to the top on FF)
- doesn’t have stupid device theme not switching bug | second instance
- works better on foldables
- Internal “apply dark theme to sites” is more performant than DarkReader addon
(??) – I don’t know what I meant by these, I should have documented 😔
Firefox
- Isn’t as abandoned
- (Slightly) Better overridden share sheet
- trusted sync tools
- ^ this means shared history and bookmarks with other devices, which is big for me
- Can use FIDO/Webauthn keys (Also recently supported by MicroG (thanks, ale5000))
- Has inline “Answers” in DDG search results, usually the first few lines of a Wikipedia entry.
- FedEx tracking website works, is broken in Bromite (although web compat is reportedly worse in FF, I haven’t experienced it much)
