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PSA (Android) if Firefox is your default browser, webapp wont install. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enjoy Voyager but I always thought is was slow and overall unresponsive. Turns out that when installed as a web app it's much more quicker and a better experience. Firefox is my default browser and the install option doesn't seem to work properly (or at all?)

To install Voyager as a web app on your android phone if Firefox is your default browser (or any other brower other than Chrome), simply go to the voyager link using Chrome and then install it from the menu.

The difference is night and day

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's odd. I just went straight to the menu in Firefox and hit install, no problems and it's my default browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure this just adds it to your home screen without installing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is most of what "installing" it does. I've installed it using Firefox Android and the main difference is that in the task switcher it's its own tasks rather than just being a tab in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For me it works on both my phone and tablet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's weird, I'm self hosting wefwef and using Firefox as my default web browser, I had no trouble with the install button.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm, that's how I installed it a while ago on Firefox on android

The "add to home screen" button is directly in the 3 dot menu tho which is nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use both Firefox Beta & Firefox Nightly daily for Voyager (depending on the device) and both have worked great for me. I just tested Stable and it was similarly fine.

Obviously if folks are having performance issues it's reasonable to test out other browsers (Chrome included), but I've never noticed any issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

With all those comments saying it worked for them I want to say that for me as well, using chrome is significantly faster than Firefox on Android. Firefox is laggy and slow, while on chrome it works perfectly fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes for me, Brave works significantly better than Firefox for installed app. I also tried ungoogled chromium, and that seems quite buggy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see any problem with Mull browser, I can install Voyager and use it 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on mull browser which I think is basically Firefox and haven't had a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My problem is l can't log in on android. Connection error. Works fine on ios

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting. I just tested it in Fennec, and it will create an icon on the home screen--but when pressed it opens a TAB in Fennec--that's not the same thing, is it?

[edit] In Kiwi browser, it opens properly--ie, as it would as an app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to do this, but is there any way to have links open in Firefox instead of Chrome? I don't want to use Chrome for links, only for Voyager

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