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Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by mg »

Personally, I prefer bookmarklets over extensions and Tampermonkey.

They work the same on Desktop, Android and iOS. So I can write my bookmarklet once and use it everywhere. Without installing anything. I also like that bookmarklets only kick in when you click on them. Although some might find that too much work, it feels natural to me. It is already in my muscle memory, to click an "Increase Fontsize" bookmarklet when I start to read through a thread on Hacker News on a mobile device, for example.

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by benatkin »

Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what.

The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke...

The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time.

Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by pwdisswordfishc »

benatkin wrote: post #5

Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke... The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time. Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.

> Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what.

?????

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by Springtime »

coconut08 wrote: post #3

it would be nice if it could support all extensions like kiwi browser does for chromium on android.

From what I've read Firefox for Android Nightly doesn't restrict which addons are allowed to be installed[1] but does require a really byzantine method to get them installed, by first creating a Mozilla account, creating a collection of addons, then using the collection URL to install them.

It's unfortunate that both being able to install any addon and access about:config on mobile isn't just some checkbox away or at least more accessible without having to install Nightly. A few years ago both were available in the regular version.

One alternative is the F-Droid Fennec fork, which is said to enable both out of the box[2].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

[2] https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/wu4g0s/mozilla_firefox...

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by sp332 »

benatkin wrote: post #5

Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke... The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time. Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.

For Android, yeah, they have a short list of allowed addons. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re... You can get past it if you're willing to run Nightly and jump through these hoops: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by sp332 »

pwdisswordfishc wrote: post #6
benatkin wrote: post #5

Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke... The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time. Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.

> Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. ?????

Wasn't this a casualty of the XUL addons being removed? The other monkey extensions were ported to the new Web Extension APIs.

Re: Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

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Post by sp332 »

mg wrote: post #2

Personally, I prefer bookmarklets over extensions and Tampermonkey. They work the same on Desktop, Android and iOS. So I can write my bookmarklet once and use it everywhere. Without installing anything. I also like that bookmarklets only kick in when you click on them. Although some might find that too much work, it feels natural to me. It is already in my muscle memory, to click an "Increase Fontsize" bookmarklet wh…

Wait, how do you use a bookmarklet like that on mobile Firefox? I have two that do this:

https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=%s

javascript:void(location.href='http://web.archive.org/save/'+document.location.href)

But neither of them work on mobile because it opens a new tab first before evaluating the bookmarklet.

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