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Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by cubefox »

drozycki wrote: post #66
godelski wrote: post #58

There's a lot of hate any Firefox and the "blessed apps." But come on, chrome and Safari don't sorry add-ons at all! I know there are other apps that support add-ons but the fact is that Firefox is __the only__ "mainstream" browser that does this (quotes because it's 0.25% in the US, as the 4th most popular, behind Samsung fucking Internet). It's popular to hate on Firefox, but this is the nerdiest of nerd issues and…

iOS Safari has supported declarative content blocking extensions since iOS 9 in 2015 and a full extension API since iOS 15 released about two years ago.

Doesn't count.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by c0nducktr »

doctor_radium wrote: post #72
c0nducktr wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Wish you hadn't downvoted him. If this directed at me, well, I didn't downvote anybody. I saw the parent post being downvoted a bunch, and wanted to know what they were talking about. I don't currently have an Android phone. Having a better browser is one of the few things which would want me to move from iOS. It was an honest question.

Sorry then. Just working off context clues.

No worries.

Are you able to set Firefox as the default browser for Android for the whole phone? For instance, if I clicked on a link in an app, would uBlock Origin filter everything loaded? i.e, the app loaded the page in the same app, can I have that rendering engine set to Firefox with Ublock?

Edit: Sorry for anyone reading this, I know I'm using the wrong terms, hopefully you know what I mean.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by cubefox »

lemper wrote: post #48

even though i am an exclusively firefox user both on desktop and mobile, i don't even know what kind of desktop version's extension that i would use on mobile. currently, i only use adblock and so far my experience is quite stellar. though it should be noted that i use browser on phone just to consume text. no video, no audio, and even picture is rarely the focus. so, what do i miss?

An extension to block video auto play perhaps.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by AndrewThrowaway »

cubefox wrote: post #80
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #22

Out of curiosity I recently did an experiment to investigate Add-Ons in Firefox for Android. Some facts: One does not need Firefox Nightly to run more extensions than the "supported" ones. Creating a "custom" collection of Add-Ons on addons.mozilla.org can be done using a disposable email address. There is no visible Settings option to add a custom collection in Fennec from F-Droid. To make it visible, one has to go…

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OP is "a she"?

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by [deleted] »

cubefox wrote: post #80
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #22

Out of curiosity I recently did an experiment to investigate Add-Ons in Firefox for Android. Some facts: One does not need Firefox Nightly to run more extensions than the "supported" ones. Creating a "custom" collection of Add-Ons on addons.mozilla.org can be done using a disposable email address. There is no visible Settings option to add a custom collection in Fennec from F-Droid. To make it visible, one has to go…

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Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

#87

Post by Dalewyn »

godelski wrote: post #58

There's a lot of hate any Firefox and the "blessed apps." But come on, chrome and Safari don't sorry add-ons at all! I know there are other apps that support add-ons but the fact is that Firefox is __the only__ "mainstream" browser that does this (quotes because it's 0.25% in the US, as the 4th most popular, behind Samsung fucking Internet). It's popular to hate on Firefox, but this is the nerdiest of nerd issues and…

>It's popular to hate on Firefox,

I don't hate Firefox, I hate Mozilla.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by the_gipsy »

drozycki wrote: post #66
godelski wrote: post #58

There's a lot of hate any Firefox and the "blessed apps." But come on, chrome and Safari don't sorry add-ons at all! I know there are other apps that support add-ons but the fact is that Firefox is __the only__ "mainstream" browser that does this (quotes because it's 0.25% in the US, as the 4th most popular, behind Samsung fucking Internet). It's popular to hate on Firefox, but this is the nerdiest of nerd issues and…

iOS Safari has supported declarative content blocking extensions since iOS 9 in 2015 and a full extension API since iOS 15 released about two years ago.

Declarative blocking is the weakest, it barely removes the simplest ads.

uBlock doesn't exist for iOS because it is made impossible by apple, their extension API is not a "full" API.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by Dalewyn »

orra wrote: post #76
Zuiii wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While true, Mozilla unfortunately had already forfeited the Android browser market to other competitors by not enabling this day one (contrary to their claims, most extensions worked fine). I would be really interested in reading the rationale behind their decision. The real one.

> Mozilla unfortunately had already forfeited the Android browser market to other competitors by not enabling this day one Er, Mozilla marketshare on Android is low because of Google anti competitively bundling Chrome with the Play Store.

Firefox defeated IE which was bundled with Windows at the time.

Chrome continues to defeat everyone, including Edge which is bundled with Windows.

Firefox's reason for irrelevance today has nothing to do with whether its competitors are bundled with operating systems.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by kikokikokiko »

ptman wrote: post #85

We need to be able to directly fund Firefox instead of all the other mozilla stuff. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...

We need to donate to a new team/foundation/corporation, anyone at all, that would fork Firefox and continue it's development. I would never, ever, give a single cent to the Mozilla Foundation. It's current form is not focused on what the users of it's products want or need. The ideology Mozilla loves to shove in it's users faces is just the cherry on top. I've been using Firefox ever since the early 2000s, and even developed some addons for it on the good old days. Nowadays I just use it while clipping my nose, to avoid giving even more power to the Devil incarnate itself that is Google.
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