Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web.

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[Hilarius]

I use Firefox on all of my devices. No issues at all with performance or usability.

I use it too (containers are really nice for separating things) but mobile one doesn't have swipe down to reload and it's driving me crazy.

Honestly it's really difficult to recommend FF over vivaldi to anyone. FF is byzantine as fuck and everything needs some random add-on (we all know the security of many of those).
I would love to have vivaldi like browser based on FF. Something where I don't need bunch of security nightmares in order to use it and it accepts that different people work in different ways, unlike mozilla that is our way or highway.

Are you on Android? iOS has had swipe down to reload for quite a while now.

I have always tried to support Firefox just to have diversity in the ecosystem. I still use it regularly on desktop but had to remove it for iOS due to recent UI changes that were driving me crazy. Specifically their choice to open a new tab every time I opened the app with no option to change the behavior back to opening to my last used tab (which is what I want my browser to do). I am now using Edge but wish FF had just left things alone and focused on improved performance and reliability instead of useless UI changes.

Settings -> Homepage -> Opening Screen: Last tab. That option has been there since the beginning.

i've always used FF. but some of their UI decisions are just baffling.

what they did to the new tab page with the last UI update is truly confusing. they've always had a big edit control in the middle of the page, which acts as a search box. and i'd grown accustomed to using that, instead of the little search box on the toolbar. and i HATE using the URL control as a search because those are two separate functions. the combined URL and search control is why i hate Chrome, in fact.

anyway, they still have the search box on the new tab page, but when you start typing in it, focus immediately jumps to the URL bar and you end up typing in there, instead.

so they've created this new fake edit control that looks exactly like every edit control since the beginning of time, but behaves unlike any control that has ever existed. and why? because they want you to use the URL bar for search. why not just remove that edit control? why turn it into this cludgy fake thing that only infuriates me?

other than that...fine browser.

Ctrl+K is your friend. It gives focus to the search bar. Alt+D for URL, Ctrl+K for search. And if you have the search bar removed, like me, Ctrl+K turns the URL bar into the search bar.