Feeling a little better about android

blacklion1725 wrote:

I think the Firefox mobile browser is still very good, and its the main thing the keeps me using the desktop version (which I find is getting slower and fussier year on year)

They’ve just announced a new campaign to get people to use it – link. I must admit, I was a fan, but Chrome does syncing much better and is the sole reason I keep it around as the built in Firefox one is pretty poor I’ve found in the past. I keep Firefox around because it runs some plugins that aren’t on Chrome which I use regularly (Zotero being the main one, which I use almost daily at work).

RSB – glad you’re getting on with it. Don’t tell anyone, but I’m running Android now as well. Well, I’ve not abandoned the walled garden of Apple but I now have to carry two phones for work – the work one is an iPhone 7, so I got myself a Moto G5 Plus 😉 The launchers are a hidden gem. I’ve switched to Nova myself, partly because I’ve used it in the past. It’s almost identical to the stock Moto launcher, but when I open a folder/stack of apps, the background of the folder is not transparent now, so I can actually see what I’m bloody clicking on! I had seen Arrow somewhere recently – might have to have a play, especially as changing the launcher doesn’t delete the settings of the previous one so you can easily switch back.

Mum has the G5 plus and it’s not that big ‘in the hand’ and the camera is a better one than the G5. Whether that’s important to you is another thing.

I thought you might have been playing with a new one.:)

PM – I looked at the plus – it felt like it was less of a comfortable fit than the G5, I also prefer the removeable battery in the G5 to the permanently fitted one in the Plus. There’s not a lot in it with respect to the cameras except the video is 2160 – 1080 is fine for me.?

After seeing your post, I thought I’d give arrow a try.

Maybe it’s just perception, I don’t know, but my phone definitely feels quicker. Running Nexus 5, lineage is 14