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Firefox for Android might not be that great in terms of performance, but is a viable option out of the Chrome eco system. Firefox Sync works. The only thing its lacking at the moment is universal support for all existing Firefox plugins.
That kind of changed recently, hasn't it? There's been an explosion of available plugins as if late.
How is performance not great? About 2-3 years ago, they made a huge amount of improvements to Firefox performance, to the point where it's plenty fast. I have it set as my default browser and have actually disabled Chrome so Firefox is used for everything.
Performance is more than sufficient for me, and I've done a mix of playing browser games and regular browsing and haven't had any issues. And this isn't on a flagship phone or anything, it's just a Moto G Power. I don't really notice any performance issues, and it's probably actually faster than Chrome on average because my ad blocker means i have to render far less stuff.
No performance issue on my Firefox too. I have Ublock origin.
if performance isnt great, then there are 1000 settings to help you fix it.
Forks like Mull and Fennec technically have access to all avaliable plugins, but it a bit annoying to set up. I don't know why they don't add an option to enable adding all plugins, with a disclaimer that some of them might not function as intended on Android.
All of the plugins I've tried in Fennec have worked just fine.
It particularly sucks for desktop use on phones that support it, no right click, no keyboard short cuts, and it clips a bit off the bottom of pages, and they've apparently said they have no plans to support desktop on Android.