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Android Browser is the new Internet Explorer along with the webkit engine (Safari included). I should make a blog post one day showing what you get with Firefox for Android and what you get with the Android browser.

Youtube, Gmail, Office 365, Google Maps, nothing works well with Firefox for Android nowadays.

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I don't see this as an issue as I use native apps for YT, Gmail and Google Maps anyway.

What's interesting is that YouTube app for iOS lacks some essential features that Android app has. For example, you can't go back to video you just watched. In Android it works with Back button, but there's no Back button on iPhone. You can have to go to history which breaks the nice user flow we have on Android and Desktop YouTube.

No I don't think that's anything particular to do with the fact that one is iOS and one is Android; Google's OWN YouTube apps are inconsistent.

The Android TV YouTube app, for example, has no way to subscribe to a channel. It also has no immediate 'go back to the video I was watching' either; you have to wait some amount of time until your YouTube history gets updated. This is Google's own YouTube app on their own platform.

I agree, I refuse to turn Chrome back on but it is tempting sometimes or even necessary. Most recently FF didn't correctly handle some intent and no app was found when a link was clicked. This was necessary for authenticating something for work. Very annoying. Anyway, the amount of Cool stuff posted here that does not work in FF desktop and requires Chrome is also quite high.

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