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Comment by kibwen | Hacker News Reader

According to the Play Store, mobile Firefox is in the "50,000,000 - 100,000,000" installs category. For a platform where Chrome is the default browser (as opposed to Windows and IE), that ain't too shabby.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

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strictly speaking, Chrome isn't necessarily the default - Chrome mobile isn't the same app as the "Internet" browser included in Android. (though it's included in newer phones - my shiny new S5 lets me pick the default as it appears to not be set yet)

For users that may still have the "Internet" app as their web default, I imagine Firefox is a better experience.

I'm curious how many of those installations actually see much use, especially on an ongoing basis.

I know several people who have all sorts of browsers installed on their Android devices, but only end up using one of them frequently. The others are used for the rare site that doesn't work well in the preferred browser, but these other browsers don't see much, if any, use beyond that.

Well it'd be good if the HTML5/H264 video player wasn't a piece of crap and it integrated with Android intents etc properly...

Would you mind be more precise so we can fix it?

Yes:

steps: Open mp4 file in Firefox 28 on Android.

actual behaviour: Shows in tiny partial window inside browser. Content is small, laggy, impossible to control, cannot be made full screen.

expected behaviour: opens with default android media player interface or asks which interface to use as per intents system.

Ff on Android is, ironically, years ahead of ffos.

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