I enjoy Voyager but I always thought is was slow and overall unresponsive. Turns out that when installed as a web app it’s much more quicker and a better experience. Firefox is my default browser and the install option doesn’t seem to work properly (or at all?)

To install Voyager as a web app on your android phone if Firefox is your default browser (or any other brower other than Chrome), simply go to the voyager link using Chrome and then install it from the menu.

The difference is night and day

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That’s odd. I just went straight to the menu in Firefox and hit install, no problems and it’s my default browser.

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I’m pretty sure this just adds it to your home screen without installing it.

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That is most of what “installing” it does. I’ve installed it using Firefox Android and the main difference is that in the task switcher it’s its own tasks rather than just being a tab in the browser.

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For me it works on both my phone and tablet.

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That’s weird, I’m self hosting wefwef and using Firefox as my default web browser, I had no trouble with the install button.

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Can confirm, that’s how I installed it a while ago on Firefox on android

The “add to home screen” button is directly in the 3 dot menu tho which is nice

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I use both Firefox Beta & Firefox Nightly daily for Voyager (depending on the device) and both have worked great for me. I just tested Stable and it was similarly fine.

Obviously if folks are having performance issues it’s reasonable to test out other browsers (Chrome included), but I’ve never noticed any issues.

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With all those comments saying it worked for them I want to say that for me as well, using chrome is significantly faster than Firefox on Android. Firefox is laggy and slow, while on chrome it works perfectly fine

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