I’ve had both Firefox and Opera GX running as replacements for Vivaldi, which still crashes when I click in form fields, though not 100 per cent of the time. It’s running at about 50 per cent, so the fix they employed to deal with this issue is only half-effective.
I see Firefox still doesn’t render type as well. This is a matter of taste, of course, but here’s one thing I really dislike, where I’m sure there’s more agreement among typophiles:
No, not the hyphenation, but the fact the f has been butchered in the process.
The majority of people won’t care about this, but it’s the sort of thing that makes me choose Opera GX over Firefox.
Due to a temporary lapse in good judgement, I attempted to install Über again, this time on my Xiaomi. Here are the Tweets relating to that:
Got talked into trying @Uber again with my new phone. Still useless as always. If you read the terms and conditions and privacy policy, you have to feed in your email, details and confirmation code again after each read! Thatʼs three times in total! Does no one test this crap? pic.twitter.com/dyzOs4fjGr
— Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) April 30, 2022
Evidently no one at Über has ever considered what it would be like if someone actually read the terms and conditions and followed through with some of the instructions in the clauses.
After getting through that, this is the welcome screen:
That was a rhetorical question as the answer is clearly no. Even if you get past all of that, this is all I see on a modern phone. Greyed out with nothing to click. pic.twitter.com/fFr64xjOEU
— Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) April 30, 2022
This is all it does. There’s nothing to click on, and you never move past this screen.
This is less than what I was able to achieve on my Meizu M6 Note when I tried Über on that—at least there it was able to tell me that Über is not available in my area (Tawa—and yes, I know Über is lying).
This has nothing to do with not having Google Services as my other half has a non-Google Huawei and is able to get the program working.
For me, it’s three out of three phones over six years where this program does not work—and frankly I’m quite happy taking public transport rather than waste my time with this lemon. Maybe one day they will get it working for all Android phones, but I won’t hold my breath.
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