• Addison
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    951 year ago

    This sounds like great news!

    Firefox is already at the top of my list of preferred browsers on Android, but more extension support has always been on my feature wishlist.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav
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          161 year ago

          It also works on the Fennec branch for people who want a fully stable build that has full addon support, but yeah this is going to open it up to a lot more people, so hopefully more people will use Firefox

    • @Zak
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      111 year ago

      Its current poor extension support is the reason I’ve been using Kiwi Browser, which is a basic Chromium build with full extension support, including loading from local storage.

      • ijeffM
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        1 year ago

        Same here. I use custom collections on Fennec F-Droid but the inability to properly sideload keeps me on the auto rebased builds of Kiwi Browser. That and support for the black OLED theme and night mode website retheming built in.

        Very glad to see this come to Firefox though! Hopefully they can also get those other bits added in.

        • @woelkchen
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          11 year ago

          At least when using Kiwi in desktop mode (via Samsung DeX), Kiwi doesn’t fill out passwords for me. There also is no interest in supporting Firefox Sync.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Yep, after I found this out I ditched Chrome immediately once they started rolling out Google Search ads that couldn’t be blocked via DNS. Firefox mobile feels a little less smooth than Chrome admittedly, but the ability to add extensions like ublock/darkreader/consent-o-matic make is a no contest in terms of overall user experience.

            The one knock is that they took bypass paywalls out of their extension store and the workaround to install it is somewhat cumbersome, so now I’m annoyingly using Kiwi browser for paywalled content and Firefox for everything else. Hopefully this update will make it so I only need one browser again.

        • Super Grizzly Bear
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          41 year ago

          So you can! That’s awesome, thanks. For anyone who wants to know:

          You can create a custom addon collection on addons.mozilla.org

          Then to add your custom collection in mull (or ff nightly, I guess) enable debug mode by going to settings > about mull and tapping the logo 5 times. Then go back and under the advanced section you can find “custom add-on collection”

  • @Zak
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    291 year ago

    That took way too long, but better late than never.

    • atocci
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      101 year ago

      It used to be a thing, didn’t it? I remember using any PC browser extension I wanted on my phone at some point and I think it was in Firefox.

      • @Molecular0079
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        101 year ago

        Yeah it was removed when they rebuilt Firefox Android on a new engine and they deemed the extension system too unreliable at the time.

      • Square Singer
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        31 year ago

        It was until FF68, when Mozilla decided that it would improve their market share if they rewrote the whole browser and kicked all their advantages down the drain.

      • @Zak
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        51 year ago

        Yes, if you run beta/nightly, create an account on their system, and add the extension to a collection there. That’s a lot of hoops to jump through, and it reduces the possible audience for an extension developer to a tiny fraction, so nobody has put any effort into building extensions for Firefox on Android.

        • Square Singer
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          11 year ago

          The last point is the biggest one. What’s the point in unlocking additional extensions if about all of them don’t work?

  • @SinningStromgald
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    101 year ago

    Super excited! Firefox is already great and this will just make it more great!

  • b1tstrem1st0
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    I’m just hoping for theming to come back to Firefox on Android. Really not into the new UI design either. (T_T)

  • @mawp
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    51 year ago

    Heck yeah, have about 5 or 6 extensions I use on the desktop version I wanna use on the mobile version!

  • @mrvictory1
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    1 year ago

    cries in Firefox on iPad

    At least my phone will make use of this.

    • @Molecular0079
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      41 year ago

      Didn’t Apple announce that they were going to remove restrictions on 3rd party browsers on iPhones and iPads? You might be seeing a Gecko based Firefox soon.

      • @mrvictory1
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        21 year ago

        Yes, but how soon? Will it be available in my country? I can’t know.

        • @Molecular0079
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          31 year ago

          I doubt they’d limit it by country, but the question of how soon is very valid. It’s one of the reasons why I don’t use Apple products. Their stranglehold over the ecosystem is highly annoying.

    • @woelkchen
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      11 year ago

      Don’t buy Apple products if you don’t agree with their policies.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    The key takeaway from this is that they’re finally rolling out their Web Manifest v3. I’m super excited