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I wonder when the Android version of Firefox will be updated to 57.


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Wondering this too

Probably today as well, but it won't see the massive speedup desktop Firefox has seen yet - that should come with one of the next few releases.

It generally takes them a while. If you're impatient you can try out the beta from play store - it's at b15 which is very close to the release version and it's working good for me on couple devices. Much better than the older versions that's for sure.

Android will get Quantum with 58, in approximately 6 weeks time.

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/31/firefox-58-for-android-ena...

But even without Quantum Firefox on Android is way faster than Chrome because it supports ad blocking plugins.


Yeah, I can't wait for FF58 on Android.

TBH FF on Android has felt a little choppy, even with ublock origin enabled. The Chromium-based Firefox Focus feels faster, but too bad it doesn't support extensions. Hopefully FF58 will be the best of both worlds on Android soon.


Don't wait, use Nightly! :)

It feels choppy, so it feels slower, even though it renders pages faster because it's not downloading and rendering ads. A great example of how feel matters.

I agree 100%. I ended up disabling my adblocker on twitter.com just because it was causing so much jank while I was scrolling.

Any idea how to make firefox focus forget google search history. Its kind of pointless to forget regular browsing history but keep search history around. Open for any workarounds because FFF is quite fast when compared with regular FF.

I am curios. Are you using FF Beta on Android or regular FF?

The thing that makes Firefox on Android unuseable for me: URLs which should be handled by apps (e.g. youtube) always open in Firefox.

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