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RE: [1] They show the exact same page for me both on Firefox and Chrome when I search for GOOG. I use Firefox as my main browser, and am logged in to my Google account on Chrome.

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Google shows a less powerful search interface on Firefox for Android. If you change the user agent to Chrome, Google then shows the same interface it shows to Chrome.

This has been such a noticeable problem that a Firefox add-on (Google Search Fixer) was created to fix it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...

Google Search Fixer is currently available on Firefox Nightly for Android.

Sorry I forgot to mention I was talking about FF Android, as commoner mentioned. I use it as my main browser and many Google sites downgrade the experience; merely changing the user agent gives me the same result as Google Chrome. I don't particularly like doing that since it reduces FF Android user count in Analytics.

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