I have switched to Android Firefox for mobile Cohost so I can use my deduplicator script, but some things about it are intensely annoying.

  • Crashes about 10% of the time I open it
  • Does a weird screen flicker when it doesn't crash
  • Can't long press a link to open in a separate browser window1
  • Can't double tap a word to select it in the editor (which is deeply strange bc this is just a standard Android action)

it's probably still worth it for user script access but I'm pretty annoyed that there are a number of real tradeoffs that are all just stupid bugs or missing functionality.


  1. Hilariously, the best way to do this in practice is to long press the link, click "Share Link", and select... Chrome. Because Firefox doesn't register itself as a link handler.


You must log in to comment.

in reply to @nex3's post:

weirdly enough, I've been using Firefox on Android for years and I've never encountered crashing or screen flickering? I'm also able to long press on a link to open in a new tab. what kind of phone are you using?

edit: long press to open in new tab seems to only be missing in the "app" version of cohost, and the last problem seems to be an issue with rich text editors specifically, which is very strange (selecting text in my experience is mostly done by long press? not sure why it's like that in firefox if double tap is standard but that's what I'm used to)

yeah, exactly (except the double tap thing which is consistent in every text field in the browser). unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to link the app from my homescreen without making it a PWA