Technology

One more reason to stick with Firefox

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

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.

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.

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

Everyone forgets Kiwi Browser :(

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

Just when Google thought it could kill adblocking…

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I wish Mozilla listened to its users like it used to.

Vivaldi has been great on Android, desktop and iOS/iPadOS and even keeps the customization built in that Firefox used to have.

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.

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

Orion supports Firefox and chrome 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.

Thanks for cross-posting instead of re-posting!