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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem
Honestly, it's hard to say. I'm using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it's ahead of all the other alternatives I've tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).
You don't get Google suggestions and that's moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.
You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go
It has currency conversion, but it expects specific format![](https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/b613d193-df49-436b-8ba2-aba12ca3d355.webp)
Nice, thanks!