{"id":874,"date":"2013-10-09T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:30:17","slug":"firefox-excellent-on-linux-fails-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Firefox – Excellent on Linux, Fails on Android.?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion:<\/em><\/strong>
\nI started out with Linux in 1997, and at that time Mosaic was looking a bit old-hat, and Netscape Navigator was the app that had the most use (along with GIMP).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After moving – over the years – to Mozilla, and later to Firebird (quickly rebranded to Firefox<\/strong>), this has always been my browser of choice.<\/p>\n

With Android, I wish I could say the same…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My first ‘Droid ‘smartphone’ suffered from ‘not available for your platform<\/em>‘ when attempting Firefox installs, and later devices installed OK, but were incredibly<\/span> sluggish..<\/p>\n

Now, I get more problems, with lack of proper Flash<\/strong> support..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, this is mainly due to Adobe abandoning Linux-based systems, but at least Fedora keeps a working Flash plugin version up-to-date..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For Android, the Firefox user is supposed to be able to navigate to an obscure Adobe ‘obsolete versions<\/em>‘ download location, and install manually.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not the sort of task the ‘average user’ would feel confident performing..\u00a0 With later Android versions, I found that this plugin just crashes Firefox..<\/p>\n

I have been forced to use Chrome on Android, as it – to use that awful phrase – ‘just works straight out of the box’…\u00a0\u00a0 I have tried other browsers, such as Opera and Dolphin, but found that Chrome was the best of a mediocre bunch..<\/p>\n

Of course, everyone is supposed to be using HTML5 now, but many of the major websites still aren’t.
\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/help\/7277283.stm#html5<\/a><\/p>\n

When all websites do<\/span> use HTML5, Firefox on Android will probably be great, but until that time, I need a browser that works now!<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon\u00a0\u00a0 October 9, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opinion: I started out with Linux in 1997, and at that time Mosaic was looking a bit old-hat, and Netscape Navigator was the app that had the most use (along with GIMP).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After moving – over the years – to Mozilla, and later to Firebird (quickly rebranded to Firefox), this has always been my browser of choice. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,19,20],"tags":[84,647,646,645,164,648,306],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-fedora","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-android-2","tag-chrome","tag-crash","tag-firefox","tag-flash-plugin","tag-html5","tag-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}