Firefox Preview now supports one Add-on (uBlock Origin) which is exactly what it was missing for me to give it another shot
yeah, It's good, it's fast and they overhauled the entire UI, it's way easier to find stuff
I think I like having the navigation bar on the bottom but I'm used to it being on top so it's still weird. I'll see if I get used to it
Love the dark theme, it's comfy, and private tabs get a lovely purple, tbh I wish that was the main UI color
@noiob oh yeah! the new theming is pretty neat, and while it'll take me a little to get used to the new locations for some stuff, it overall seems a lot snappier
i do miss my keyword searches though; they are the main reason i started using firefox mobile in the first place
the faq does say some features are missing, and they are gonna reimplement them with each new release, so i'm glad there's acknowledgement they might come back soon!
@thingywott I mean, it's still in development, I expect it to not be feature-complete. Do you know about DuckDuckGo bangs? they're basically global keyword searches
also I think there's a setting in "search" that might correspond to those new @keyword search shortcuts but I don't have any set up, you might be able to set them up on desktop and sync them over (see
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-adding-search-shortcuts-for-google-and-amazon-to-top-sites/)
@noiob oh yeah! i'm not even anticipating they'll be back for a while, and that's okay. i'll do my best to get used to it in the meantime (speaking of, TIL the @ syntax! though that seems absent here too)
also yep! ddg bangs are how i usually survive without keywords, but i do have a pretty substantial number that are pretty specific to me (plus bangs are slow to type on phones)
@noiob woah. that is significantly faster than what i've been doing
i'm definitely gonna start doing that from now on
thank you..! ^^
@thingywott I don't know where I first heard of this but it seems to be the standard for soft keyboards (on iOS too), it's really handy and super fast once you develop muscle memory for where the symbols are
@noiob there's a surprising amount of neat little things that a lot of softkeyboards do
i still like the whole "swiping the spacebar left or right lets you move the cursor" thing
@thingywott swiping left from the delete key let's you delete entire words
@thingywott on gboard tying a ! is one swipe from the symbol switcher key to the !