Oh my goodness that would be amazing. I’ll drop safari in an instant.
Unfortunatly, this will not be the case on iOS as Apple doesn’t allow third-party browser engines and stores
The EU is working on opening that up at least so there is a light at the end of the tunnel for those users
Bummer.
I might get me a damn android.
I’m just buried in their ecosystem. Gah. I’ve been using apple computers and phones since I was a kid. I started on the Quadra 650.
My last mac (which I still use for music recording) was a 2012 Mac Pro. I’ve pretty much gone all in on the phones these days with a Steam Deck as my primary computer but definitely my secondary device.
I have photos on iCloud going back to about 2014 when I stopped jailbreaking my phones. Moving all of that would be no fun at all. Getting used to a new OS wouldn’t be any fun either. I hate doing anything on my uncle’s Samsung.
I really wish there was a third alternative. A good Linux distro centered around phones or something.
I also used iPhones for a long time until I had to switch to a temporary phone due to age-related hardware malfunction. Out of curiosity, I tried /e/ OS and was very pleasantly surprised.
The temporary phone is now in use for at least a year and I also get to enjoy other extraordinary features like USB-C and a headphone-jack. In the future, I may also give LineageOS a try.
I’m an iPhone man, but if weren’t I would be using Google Pixels.
It’s the most polished Android experience I’ve seen so far, and you can do literally whatever you want with them as they have unlockable boot loaders.
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.
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.
How do I make use of this? I can’t see a way to install them on my Fennec from F Droid
You have to add a custom addons collection. That’s how.
I haven’t gotten around making them and using them, and it seems every guide online is vastly out of date
Fennec is awesome. I’m never going back to anything else.
Yup. Unless they break anything, which I can’t really imagine at this point.
Is there an easy way to migrate from the official app to Fennec? Keeping accounts, extensions and settings?
If you have enabled the sync feature in Firefox, it seamlessly works with Fennec; as does the integration between Fennec and Firefox Desktop. Simply log on with your Firefox account in Fennec, and you won’t even feel the difference.
It’s available in nightly (and I think dev) builds
If you don’t want to use the potentially unstable Nightly, Dev or Beta, you can use Fennec (stable builds with dev features).
probably in normal Firefox too, it’s just hidden in all of them
One more reason to stick with Firefox
Other browsers already do, firefox users just cant stop licking mozillas balls
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Idk what u mean but whatever ad scenario u have going on in your brain, i said extensions supported, which means adblocks included
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You do realize other mobile browsers also come with an ad blocker…right? Look up Vivaldi for example.
On mobile? Very few do
The point is they already do unlike what the article claims
It’s desktop extensions. Most mobile browsers only support a subset of all available extensions (including Firefox!). Now, Firefox will support its whole library of extensions.
They only mention “open extension ecosystem” idk if that means everything and also I haven’t found an extension not working on mine yet I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games on my browser so no opinion on those statements
They only mention “open extension ecosystem”
- The title: “Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release”
- End of the first paragraph: “Here’s everything developers need to know to get their Firefox desktop extensions ready for Android usage and discoverability on AMO…”
- End of the second paragraph: “so why not start optimizing your desktop extension for mobile-use right away?”
also I haven’t found an extension not working on mine yet I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games on my browser so no opinion on those statements
And those were installed from the mozilla addon library? With full support for a mobile interface? And you tried every extension available?
I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games
Flash used to be a mobile extension…
What u highlight desktop for, the article is about android and the 10 extensions it has so far, your own highlight says “about upcoming android release” desktop is only mentioned for devs to optimize their shit for mobile use.
And no my extensions were not from mozilla thats my whole point I can get extensions elsewhere this whole time, which is why I mock mobile mozilla users in the comments thinking mozilla did something revolutionary.
I think you’re a little confused about what’s being said here.
I think youre the one confused other mobile browsers already support extensions, too bad 100 people downvoting lack the skill to google
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hahaha that was embarrassing
Why do you choose to be wrong?
O.O doubling down getting second hand cringe here
Firefox has always had been the most attractive to many people.
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?
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That was definitely the most infuriating thing they’d done with the mobile browser. The whole project started decades ago with a simple plan: make the most bare-bones browser, and let people customize it with any extensions they wanted. Then all of a sudden, it turned into having <10 approved extensions, and fuck your customization.
It’s gotten much better over time since then, but damn if there weren’t a few really bad years.
I think they went evil because letting google pay 80% of your bills isn’t really tenable… but some incredibly boneheaded decisions. Instead of offering their own suite of privacy focused products they tried to cram pocket down everyone’s throats.
I love Firefox but they have made some crushingly bad calls over the years.
It does make me suspect that when Google first funded them, the real handshake had little to do with using them as their default search engine, and instead had to do with cutting back on their focus on privacy to pursue literally anything else. But that’s just a conspiracy theory of mine.
Google funds Firefox so that it serves as a controlled opposition and to avoid antitrust action. However, most of the stupid decisions by Mozilla are self-inflicted by top management who are more focused on being an NGO than a tech company.
I like these types of conspiracy theories
you still can get them, they are just hidden
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
Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it’s chromium based if remember correctly.
oh I didn’t know, pretty cool
at least both chromium and Firefox get a version with add ons
it also whitelists ad blockers from working on some, presumably “partnered”, websites.
What? You just install the uBlock Origin extension. Are you saying it overrides domain and element blocks from uBlock?
It’s open source so if you could point to the code that does it, that would be great: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src
Firefox does?
Kiwi does, not firefox
Didn’t know that. I also got some kind of shady vibes from Kiwi, but never run into any issues with it. Firefox was causing all kinds of problems with pages failing to load so I bailed, but would be glad to return if they fix the bugs and add full extension support.
This article was weird for me also I have all my extension already installed like bitwarden for passwords and all kind of adblockers and scriptblockers
Nightly versions and Fennec.
Mull too
Thanks for cross-posting instead of re-posting!
Just when Google thought it could kill adblocking…
Well as far as adblocking goes, mobile FireFox already supports uBlock Origin.
Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn’t use on android.
First? What about Kiwi browser? Edit: I just remembered even old firefox supported most desktop addons…
And many others
What about Kiwi and Iceraven (Iceraven is a Firefox fork which has more extensions)
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.
Stop lying, Kiwi has been around for so long
They probably mean official browsers, not random forks.
How is Kiwi less a browser than firefox? Non-sense
It’s an inofficial fork of an official browser. Where are you struggling to comprehend this?
An “official” browser? So the web relies on named authorities now? That’s just disrespect from big players. This shall not be tolerated.
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.
Have a look at YouTube ReVanced if you want a much better YouTube experience on Android. :)
use Newpipe, it’s free software, unlike revanced.
Or LibreTube
I used to have an app to do the redirection on several sites automically but afair the Nitter thing was just so unstable that I removed the app.
It might have been some time ago, because even the main instance has been consistently working for me as of recent
Yeah this winter and spring
Same, like 30% of the time it worked, the other 70% it would be very slow or not load at all
You can install tamper monkey and use a userscript to redirect. That’s what I do.
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I’m trying to make the switch over to FF, but Vivaldi just has so many features I find useful.
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The web panel is the feature I’m missing the most currently. I’ve tried, without success, to replicate the tab bar to the bottom of the window too.
Orion supports Firefox and chrome extensions
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