Firefox for Android does not support Material UI, has a low minimum API level, and generally seems lacking in features. Why is that?

Edit 1: also the downloading function is super unstable, I lost several files due to firefox starting the download then stopping and removing the download for no reason.

  • sab@kbin.social
    131·
    9 months ago

    I think people can be running pretty old versions of Android everywhere, assuming they don’t change their phones every two years when support for their current device ends. They might still want to use an up-to-date web browser.

    There’s just no reason we shouldn’t expect 99% of new apps to run on older phones, and to hell with the entire industry for normalizing it.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      9 months ago

      Well, there is a reason and that reason is lack of security support but that is not inherent to the old hardware.