• @WhyYesZoidberg
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    1077 months ago

    i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios

      • Jeffrey
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        147 months ago

        Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?

        A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google’s monopoly in the space.

        • @TrickDacy
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          7 months ago

          The alternative would be … The EU rules that only webkit and Firefox are allowed on iOS…? That’s not happening, nor should it. (Fuck Google still though, I agree with your stance there)

          • @[email protected]
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            137 months ago

            Better than apple doing whatever the fuck they want. Imagine Microsoft would have only allowed IE based browsers on windows. We would still be in the IE days, because why put work into something when you can just force people to use it?

            At least with chrome it is used because it is a pretty competent engine.

            • @TrickDacy
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              27 months ago

              I mean if I was dictator I would do this… But some people would hate me for it and they’d have a decent argument to make. It won’t happen… But yeah, fuck googl cannot be said enough

        • PHLAK
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          47 months ago

          Yes, equal ground should be given to all. Unfortunately, you’re right about Chromium but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t play fair.

    • @[email protected]
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      Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn’t that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.

      But, ios legitimately sucks because it’s so restrictive and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.

      • @WhyYesZoidberg
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        -27 months ago

        I used Android and its variants for 10+ years. With each version you had to do more and more battle to somewhat safeguard any shed of privacy. It was exhausting.

        So I bit the bullet and chose the lesser of two evils. Apple > Google.

        Happy so far.

        • @Huschke
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          227 months ago

          You cloud always use LineageOS or even better GrapheneOS. With Apple, you’re just trading one devil for another.

        • @laverabe
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          37 months ago

          There is no lesser. 4 oz pile of blue shit is same as 4 oz pile of pink shit. Both the enshittification process will enshrine.

          • @WhyYesZoidberg
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            -87 months ago

            Google will crawl over broken glass to steal your data. Apple sells you overpriced shit. they are not the same

              • @WhyYesZoidberg
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                -47 months ago

                of course they are. but comparing to google - it’s like they aren’t

            • The Barto
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              37 months ago

              Apple doesn’t need to crawl over broken glass to steal your data when you just give it to them.

    • glibg10b
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      97 months ago

      Don’t worry, you guys will soon get sideloading. Hopefully someone ports it to iOS

    • @TheMinions
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      77 months ago

      Orion supports (some) Firefox extensions. Worth a look imo.

      • @[email protected]
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        Wow, yes it is!

        Just tested Firefox Focus, Vivaldi, Opera, DuckDuckGo, and Safari with Hyperweb (non-optimized adblock configuration admittedly).

        Orion blocked more ads out of the box than the rest. Impressive. Says it supports some Chrome extensions too. (Didn’t test.)

        Interesting there’s no default search engine. There is an extremely gentle prod towards Kagi by listing all other search engines under “Ad-Supported”.

    • @helmet91
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      27 months ago

      What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I’ve never used iOS.)

      • @smolyeet
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        37 months ago

        Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible

      • @WhyYesZoidberg
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        17 months ago

        yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios

        • @helmet91
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          27 months ago

          Whaaaat? Damn.

          Nowadays I tend to feel fed up with Android and switching to iOS crosses my mind sometimes, but the more I hear about iOS, the more I appreciate Android.

          Seriously, WTF?! A web browser is a pretty essential tool, I can’t believe a real Firefox version cannot be installed.

          I guess, my long term solution will be some Android-fork.

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        It’s the same/better as any browser app on Android, and even if that isn’t true your comment is still completely pointless and ignores what they said.

  • Bappity
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    747 months ago

    massive W firefox

  • Carlos Solís
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    287 months ago

    Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      I am also using the same method and hoping the same thing. I doubt we will have to do the song and dance just because it is very much a developer feature test route and they have had extension functionality previously in the regular release.

      Also looking forward to pulling back to stable build.

  • @madcaesar
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    277 months ago

    Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.

  • @[email protected]
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    267 months ago

    Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.

    • Altima NEO
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      47 months ago

      Yeah that’s weird. I end up needing to open a new tab. Does it randomly.

    • kratoz29
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      47 months ago

      I have had this happened to me before, I think it has something to do with Android closing the app because of needing more RAM, hence you go back to FF and find out a blank page or sometimes it is not even the correct tab lol, refreshing it won’t fix it thus you’d need to manually close, or force close the app to get it in a working state.

      Also, I haven’t checked on mobile, but the PS Store website just crashes Firefox entirely in macOS lol, those kind of annoyances weren’t present in Chromium based browsers, and I can see this being a huge downside for most people, for me it is worth it because FF is so damn cool.

    • @CatTrickery
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      27 months ago

      I have it happen for webview most times I use it. I ended up using Kiwi Browser instead because of it.

    • @Companion1666
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      this happened to me atleast twice a day. it’s annoying, and sometimes i ended up using chrome.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    167 months ago

    I honestly can’t wait for this to happen so I can finally get Flagfox on my phone. I likenbeing able to see where a website might be hosted, where the server is.

  • @[email protected]
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    157 months ago

    What are some good extensions for Firefox? I got the standard ad-block but I don’t know what else is out there.

  • @fne8w2ah
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    157 months ago

    Next, tab stacking.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Yup, my android tablet is the only device I own (unless you count my smart tv) where I don’t use Firefox. At least there’s kiwi so you can have a tablet interface and still be able to install addons

      • @Zerfallen
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        17 months ago

        Firefox is dead to me until they bring back a proper tablet UI. No tab bar is a deal breaker.

        • dantheclamman
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          17 months ago

          Yeah, I use Samsung Internet on my tablet. Firefox on everything else, so I obviously miss the syncing, tab push and access to extensions with my tablet. I even put it up as an Idea on Mozilla Connect, where a lot of people seem to agree, but I don’t foresee Firefox ever addressing this. I think they’re buried under a mountain of back-end issues.

      • kratoz29
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        17 months ago

        Is it a different UI than the one that has on the iPad?

        • dantheclamman
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          57 months ago

          There has been no tablet UI for Firefox on Android since the Fenix update 4 years ago. It’s just the phone UI stretched out. It’s a big bummer

    • kratoz29
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      17 months ago

      This is very needed, I think you can get around on desktop with some neat extension, but we are fucked on mobile lol.

  • @ieightpi
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    147 months ago

    Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?

  • @mlg
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    107 months ago

    tbh I didn’t even know it was limited because all I use is uBlock origin lmao

    Will be fun to see Wappalyzer on mobile

    • @whereisk
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      27 months ago

      Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.

  • @[email protected]
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    107 months ago

    Do I need to install mobile-specific add-ons or will the ones I have on desktop sync across?

    • glibg10b
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      77 months ago

      I don’t know if they’ll sync, but you’ll be able to install all add-ons available on desktop (possibly minus the Firefox themes)

      • @Zak
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        17 months ago

        That’s not what they announced. Extensions marked as compatible with Android will be available and technical changes to the design of some extensions are recommended to ensure good results.

  • danque
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    77 months ago

    Holy shit that’s huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.