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Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does. (uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
Haven't used android in a couple of years but firefox used to support addons (and it looks like it still does).
As a tester of Firefox Preview: WebRender has been a godsend for mobile browsing -- I have yet to see it choke!
Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does. (uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
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Same here. I do not know why the heck Mozilla is tiptoeing from just hiring Raymond and making uBlock an integral part of firefox. Note that they already included something similar, which is SafeBrowsing(TM), that is maintained by google. Technically, it is exactly the same concept. But uBlock is actively request by 99% of their users, while safeBrowser(TM) fingerprinting is mostly disabled by half.
Pure speculation, I wonder if their contract with Google forbids them from having ad blocking as part of the browser. At least if I was a company paying another company millions of dollars I wouldn't let them block my income stream in their product.
Cool, how about working on that mobile browser you already have? I've been using it for years and it's good but apparently the lack of progress on it is because they abandoned us users of it to focus on this thing. When quantum came out addon capability on mobile severely regressed and never recovered. This issue to support the context menu API has been open for TWO YEARS.[0] I just want to be able to long press an i…
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It's not comprehensive, but I prefer the strategy of publicly releasing the information as they have it available, even if it means it often raises more questions. Even if they don't have the entire transition planned out, I think it was important for Mozilla to communicate their Android dev focus was gonna shift to GeckoView, from existing apps, to allow external devs, and customers to have a better plan, even if th…
They said they were "currently" finalising their transition plans in February, so I think it's reasonable to assume that the plans have been finalised by now.
I can't find any info about Sync (especially with my own back-end) which is one of the main reasons I'm using Firefox everywhere.
Does not support any addons, and is therefore useless until it does. (uBlock Origin is a prerequisite for me.)
I hope they add support for addons otherwise there isn't much use for it at least to me.
Cool, how about working on that mobile browser you already have? I've been using it for years and it's good but apparently the lack of progress on it is because they abandoned us users of it to focus on this thing. When quantum came out addon capability on mobile severely regressed and never recovered. This issue to support the context menu API has been open for TWO YEARS.[0] I just want to be able to long press an i…
TL;DR: There was too much cruft built up.
Work should move faster now. We substantially grew our Android team in the last year.
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Haven't used android in a couple of years but firefox used to support addons (and it looks like it still does).
GeckoView doesn't support addons yet. This is pending discussion, but it looks like the goal is to focus on mobile optimization first. As a tester of Firefox Preview: WebRender has been a godsend for mobile browsing -- I have yet to see it choke!
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I am a developer and spend half my work time in Firefox Nightly. This is not usable for me despite being exactly the target for this preview.
The target of a preview is not people expecting it to be feature complete, so no, you're not the target.
Edit : And again, most of my work if not all related to Firefox, I do on the Nightly build. I expect things to break, but this preview ( of which there have been builds for a while already ) is a non-starter.