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[-] ugjka@lemmy.world 155 points 10 months ago

One more reason to stick with Firefox

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[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 145 points 10 months ago

Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn't use on android.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 114 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mobile FF is already awesome with UBlock Origin and YT background playback extensions. I wish to install an auto redirect extension. (Twitter to Nitter) I know it is doable on beta w/ extensions etc. but I want to see them on normal Firefox.

[-] Lord_Boffum@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Have a look at YouTube ReVanced if you want a much better YouTube experience on Android. :)

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

That's nice, maybe they can finally re-enable about:config in the damn thing too. They removed it from mobile Firefox years ago and the lack of it aggravates the hell out of me.

[-] SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 months ago

It's available in nightly (and I think dev) builds

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[-] viking@infosec.pub 24 points 10 months ago

Fennec still supports it, just as it supports add-ons from the official Mozilla store. Don't see any reason why I should go back to the official app.

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[-] Mininux@sh.itjust.works 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doesn't it already support them ?

edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile

edit2: also they forgot about kiwi, but then it's not a major browser (and is it still maintained ?). still would've been cool if they corrected this

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it's chromium based if remember correctly.

[-] noodlejetski@geddit.social 21 points 10 months ago

it also whitelists ad blockers from working on some, presumably "partnered", websites.

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[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 53 points 10 months ago

Everyone forgets Kiwi Browser :(

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 46 points 10 months ago

They already support uBlock origin and that's all I need.

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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago

No, no, no! It was supporting all the desktop extensions. For years. Until the damn buggy rewrite for no good reason. And then we were suddenly left with like 5 of them.

For a year after that I was still running the last stable release. But unfortunately the web evolves too fast.

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[-] hotwarioinyourarea@slrpnk.net 40 points 10 months ago

But didn't it used to support desktop extensions on mobile before the redesign about 3 years ago? Also, hasn't Kiwi had extensions for like 6 years?

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Didn't their pre-version 79 app already support extensions?

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago

I don't know about pre-79, but their current version supports a very, very limited selection of extensions, many of which are to specifically improve the mobile version of Firefox. Currently, only a total of 22 extensions are supported, many of which share the same purposes.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 10 months ago

I mean, ad blocking is like 95% of the reason why I want extensions.

And the other 5% is blocking all those stupid consent popups.

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[-] Ktheone@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

They're finally starting to recover from that crappy firefox 79 update 😮‍💨

[-] Slopz@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Lol what? I remember using Kiwi browser like 7 years ago and it had extension support...

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I use kiwi browser now. It's still there and getting updates.

[-] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 10 months ago
[-] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

So did Firefox, oddly enough

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[-] EmperorHenry@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

It supported desktop extensions before, then they got rid of that and now they're going to do it again?

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Just when Google thought it could kill adblocking…

[-] jpj007@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

Well as far as adblocking goes, mobile FireFox already supports uBlock Origin.

[-] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 10 months ago

Kiwi broswer already does it, same with the Orion browser for iOS

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[-] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Holy Fuck. Call me Ramsay, Finally some delicious fucking tech. the separation gap between mobile and pc has been going on for far too long. anything to help merge the pair. yes. all the yes.

[-] juice@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

First? What about Kiwi browser? Edit: I just remembered even old firefox supported most desktop addons...

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[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And yet they've turned their back on *Android tablet users and refuse to support the tab bar.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2344

Ridiculous. Only reason I switched to Vivaldi

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[-] noodle@feddit.uk 22 points 10 months ago

It's long overdue. I've been running Nightly to get around the shockingly limited number of addons available on Firefox for Android. Hopefully Mozzila don't fumble the bag with this as its a great opportunity to steal users from Chrome.

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[-] nix@merv.news 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Orion Browser by the team that makes the Kagi search engine makes this possible on ios already

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[-] cpressland@celeb.pizza 16 points 10 months ago

I would kill for this on iOS. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty happy with my Safari Extensions, but I’d rather have uBlock Origin, Stylish etc.

[-] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I think I read that it previously supported full blown extension and they removed it due to some under the hood changes.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

It did, legacy versions of it had almost full extension support and also even allowed you to install them from storage as xpi files and poke around about:config, then they took away both of those things completely in fenix (only allowing about:config in debug versions and blocking XPI install altogether).

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[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Orion supports Firefox and chrome extensions

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[-] Wyrryel@pawb.social 12 points 10 months ago

Thanks for cross-posting instead of re-posting!

[-] crowsby@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Kudos to them for rolling out support more widely, but it's a bit misleading as Firefox nightly/Fennec has supported extensions for years (albeit via a cumbersome process), and Kiwi Browser is also a thing.

I can't understand how folks out there are just rawdogging the Internet out there without ublock or at least a DNS ad filter. Admittedly, Chrome runs a hair more smoothly, but the ability to use extensions like uBlock / DarkReader / Consent-O-Matic make the Firefox experience a tier above.

I just hope this makes it possible to install the Bypass Paywalls extension again so I don't have to hop over to Kiwi for that.

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