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Recently I had a discussion on Mastodon about mobile phone applications. </p>
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The other person stated "the web belongs to web browsers". I agreed to it as a general good approach. </p>
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Some dedicated apps cannot be substituted with the browser, but some can. I do not have so many apps myself, but anyway that statement got me to review a couple of my apps how they works in the Firefox browser. </p>
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And actually, I could delete three apps and all functions I needed from them can be managed from Firefox. </p>
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Beside traditional bookmarks, those pages can be pinned to the Firefox start page or placed like a webapp on the mobile screen, so they look like an ordinary app. </p>
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Using the Firefox browser makes it easier to control the privacy. In addition to what is built into Firefox, I currently also have the two extensions, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin in my Firefox browser. </p>
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Beside privacy and in general to be somewhat more in control, this approach also reduces the number of apps to keep updated and reduce storage need. </p>
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Sometimes apps are necessary of otherwise beneficial. But I think the traditional browser should not be forgotten also on the smart mobile phone.</p>


