Trying Firefox as My Default Browser on iPhone and iPad
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Trying Firefox as My Default Browser on iPhone and iPad
It all started when I remembered how my friend Myke Hurley always complains about Safari’s tab view on iPhone.
As Club MacStories members should know at this point, I’ve spent the past few months exploring a variety of options for read-later apps. I’ve tried so many, and ultimately came away thinking the perfect solution for me doesn’t exist yet, John and I even recorded an entire episode of AppStories about our ideal read-later app. Last week, during one of my (many) moves from one read-later system to another, I found myself juggling dozens of open tabs in Safari for iPhone and struggling to see an overview of all the open pages I wanted to migrate from my Kindle library to Pocket (which is the next app I’m taking for a spin for a while). It was then that Myke’s thoughts came back to me: Safari’s carousel-like tab view for iPhone is bad, doesn’t let you easily preview open tabs, and, worst of all, is slow and clunky to manage on iPhone. Other browsers have shipped more intuitive tab views on the iPhone’s smaller screen for years now; for whatever reason, Safari for iPhone still relies on a vertical stack of pages that doesn’t scale to dozens of open tabs.