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The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox to Sailfish instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox to Sailfish instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox to Sailfish instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

EDIT: Mozilla wasted enough money on Windows Phone version and they won't be porting it anywhere else after that fiasco. What needs to be done is a redesign of the desktop Firefox chrome (user interface) for mobile devices. As it have been before the switch to native Android widgets in 2012. Maybe it's not too late to resurrect that code and bring it up-to-date. If you try the old fennec-13b1, you'll notice that it's basically fine and all the improvements from the past few years should be enough to make it an excellent native browser for Jolla.

The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox to Sailfish instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

EDIT: Mozilla wasted enough money on Windows Phone version and they won't be porting it anywhere else after that fiasco. What needs to be done is a redesign of the desktop Firefox chrome (user interface) for mobile devices. As it have been before the switch to native Android widgets in 2012. Maybe it's not too late to resurrect that code and bring it up-to-date. If you try the old fennec-13b1, you'll notice that it's basically fine and all the improvements from the past few years should be enough to make it an excellent native browser for Jolla.

EDIT: Google stopped shipping a base browser in 4.4 and Apple with Microsoft never did. Why is it so important for Jolla to deliver an application that will be immediately replaced with something more useful instead of providing a sane default?

The alien mobile Firefox is faster, more stable and supports most of the official add-ons such as adblock.

After almost a year of development the built-in browser takes several seconds to even start loading a page, often starts ignoring all input and must be restarted, crashes on some sites and does not support add-ons at all.

Please, stop wasting resources on this software and explore the possibility of porting mobile Firefox to Sailfish instead. It may not adhere to your design guidelines, but users no longer expect browsers to. Does the best phone in the world not deserve the best browser?

EDIT: Mozilla wasted enough money on Windows Phone version and they won't be porting it anywhere else after that fiasco. What needs to be done is a redesign of the desktop Firefox chrome (user interface) for mobile devices. As it have been before the switch to native Android widgets in 2012. Maybe it's not too late to resurrect that code and bring it up-to-date. If you try the old fennec-13b1, you'll notice that it's basically fine and all the improvements from the past few years should be enough to make it an excellent native browser for Jolla.

EDIT: Google stopped shipping a base browser in 4.4 and Apple with Microsoft never did. Why is it so important for Jolla to deliver an application that will be immediately replaced with something more useful instead of providing a sane default?