Firefox beta on Android is slow, but wrorst is if you use Google's search tools (like time range) Google sends Firefox a search results page without that ability or many other things (plus side, there's no amp).
It's pretty amazing that Google can discriminate so obviously against competitors and not be punished like Microsoft rightfully was whem I was young...!
Proof of monopoly abuse right here: no technical reason, just a wish to crush competition.
There are a few of them, but i didn't want to keep fighting against Google and chrome is going to take up space on my phone regardless. I only have 16gb of internal storage so I'm often struggling with that. (Android seems to work their hardest to make the expandable micosd not very useful).
Reasonable in your case but I'll remind everyone here that we used to fight tooth and nail against Microsoft back in the days
- and we won: I'm now free to use Linux at work. I think cloud computing as we know it happened as a result of the liberation of server class operating systems etc.
So my suggestion is we continue to make noise until we get meaningful change.
(And just like with MS back in the days I don't think everyone working for Google is evil, it just seems to be next to impossible to have that kind of power as a company and not abuse it.)
For the same reason that they expect websites not to display a different content when they see the googlebot UA for instance? It's pretty shady behavior IMO, that's not how the web is supposed to function. It's something I would've expected from Microsoft more than 10 years ago. I guess chrome really is the new IE.
I also expect them to do the right thing because of "Don't Be Evil", but that doesn't really mean much anymore, right?
Google depends on external things too - especially the foss community. Eg, if github sees a connection coming from Google that is /not/ their indexing bot, give them a limited page.
It's a shame the EC hasn't looked into this as part of its antitrust investigation against Google. And I'm talking about Google not allowing ad-blockers in the Play Store, not about Chrome not having an adblock extension. That's just their decision not to have extensions on the mobile Chrome, and I can respect that, even though I know it sucks. However, it should be illegal for Google to block adblockers in the store, considering its Android monopoly in the EU.
