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I'm thinking about switching to Firefox (Nightly) as my phone browser. I had looked at it before but dismissed it as the new, rebuilt version wasn't ready for prime time. It still isn't entirely, which is where the nightly version comes in to play.

Can you believe that the current stable version of Firefox doesn't have pull to refresh? They've added it to the nightly build so that's what I'm testing. Such a simple 'quality of life' feature that I can't do without.

I also looked at DuckDuckGo and Vivaldi but neither of them are suitable. DDG is too feature light and the app theme (dark/light) doesn't follow the system theme, and I just don't like the mobile UI on Vivaldi.

Another reason I had dismissed Firefox was that it doesn't have the same support for prefers-color-scheme as most Chromium based browsers, specifically changing image URLs. I have since learned that this can be done inline using the <picture> tag, for example:

<picture>
  <source 
    srcset="dark.png" 
    media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
  <img loading="lazy" src="light.png">
</picture>

Interestingly (worryingly?) I went to save a draft of this post in Firefox and got blocked from the server for a possible HTML injection. Coincidence? Maybe I'll hold off on the browser change until pull to refresh hits the stable build, just in case.

(Thanks to Flavio Copes for the above code example.)