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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 ReadCarlBarks »

Sabinus wrote: post #99
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?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire... So I can read Twitter links without dealing with the login modals.

You don't need a special extension for this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

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

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Post by Cyuonut »

friend_and_foe wrote: post #73
specproc wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I was doing Iceraven for a bit, but it was a pain to keep updated. Super stoked with this news this morning.

How was it a pain? Ffupdater has had it available for a very long time, and there's Unobtainium that lets you update from git repo releases among other things.

> ... there's Unobtainium that lets you update from git repo releases among other things.

Did you mean Obtainium?

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

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

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

maccard wrote: post #115
mrd3v0 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark Reader, LocalCDN, Firefox Relay, Firefox Translations, LanguageTool among others I have installed on Iceraven, a Firefox for Android fork.

Dark Reader and Relay are both on Android. I'm not sold on LocalCDN being necessary or even helpful these days (but there was a time when it was. A bit like antiviruses other than Windows defender these days, or those registry cleaner tools). The others are missing for sure, though.

LocalCDN is helpful because it makes Firefox use local copies of popular JS libraries instead of downloading them over and over again. This makes browsing faster.

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

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Post by Cyuonut »

Macha wrote: post #136
mrd3v0 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark Reader, LocalCDN, Firefox Relay, Firefox Translations, LanguageTool among others I have installed on Iceraven, a Firefox for Android fork.

consent-o-matic, tampermonkey

Tampermonkey is installable in (my, at least) Forefox Android.

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

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

Macha wrote: post #136
mrd3v0 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark Reader, LocalCDN, Firefox Relay, Firefox Translations, LanguageTool among others I have installed on Iceraven, a Firefox for Android fork.

consent-o-matic, tampermonkey

> consent-o-matic

You don't need this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

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

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

kikokikokiko wrote: post #94
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?

Behindtheoverlay is a little extension that should not be as usefull as it is. I ude it daily, both on mobile and desktop, and I do not use Firefox mobile for this exact same reason.

You don't need a special extension to get rid of annoying overlays. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

uBlock Origin also has an "element zapper" feature that lets you temporarily remove overlays that aren't covered by the lists.

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

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Post by hadrien01 »

godelski wrote: post #163
batrat wrote: post #122

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>behind Samsung fucking Internet Supports adblock (addons) and shows tabs on top just like desktop so it's easy to switch, dark mode for all websites, etc. It's relative fast and lots of options. I use FF with no addons for some websites.

> shows tabs on top just like desktop Honestly, I hate this on the phone. But I get it. I had that initial cognitive disruption when FF did this. But once that was gone (idk, like 30 minutes?) I realized it was a lot nicer because I could actually reach the address bar and tabs without needing to stretch my hand. Or if I have a bigger phone, use a second hand. I mean there's a reason navigation buttons on the phones…

You can change the tabs and address bar positions (independently) in the Samsung Internet settings. You can also choose to display them always, on scroll, or never (for the tabs).

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

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Post by input_sh »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #164
input_sh wrote: post #140

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You see, Mozilla is stuck in this limbo where people criticise them for taking money from Google, but also criticise them when they explore alternate funding sources (Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Firefox Private Network, MDN Plus) because they're not focusing on Firefox and Thunderbird. Sometimes literally in the same comment, as the one above. In other words, HN crowd will shit on them regardless of what they do.

> where people criticise them for taking money from Google, but also criticise them when they explore alternate funding sources What aggravates me is nobody is asking why do you need so much cash? - Why has it become so big that it needs to spend 81M on Management payroll per year? [0] - Why has it grown so big that it needs to spend 21M in external consultants per year? [0] - Why do you need 1000+ staff to roll out…

That's a whole lotta words to avoid addressing the contradictions in your statements: do you want them to keep being funded mostly by Google or do you want them to venture out into other funding opportunities?

It's one or the other, you can't have neither. 8 million is tiny in comparison to who they're trying to compete with. Thank god that's not their only revenue source, otherwise they'd be dead a decade ago. I guarantee you Edge has a higher yearly budget than that without even having their own engine.

> If I go to most open source projects and say you can burn through 8M a year...

Go ahead and do that, nothing's stopping you. You've been beating this same drum for the past three years[0], don't you get tired of it? I'm begging you, do something useful for the future of the web instead of shitting on those that do. It doesn't have to be Mozilla, donate to FSF, Ladybird, Internet Archive, Wikimedia, and so on and so on. Get involved, be the change you want to see, create your own NGO that will do something better and I'm gonna be the first one to throw money your way. Just do something useful with your time instead of chasing internet points by behaving like a parrot.

> On thing I feel we are still missing is for FSF, Wiki, Archive.org, etc. to effectively gather enough cash to start lobbying in politics and in industry much in the same way Meta and Alphabet do.[1]

Guess who's been doing that? Mozilla[2], the same NGO you've been shitting on for hours in this thread! Pick. A. Lane. Stand for something that's not downplaying work done by others.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24654676

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981953

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?c...

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

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Post by Springtime »

_njyk wrote: post #147
specproc wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not like the look of Kiwi Browser one bit, lots of weird permissions and dodgy ad-tech smells. Plus it's not Firefox, I'd rather use the same browser on both desktop and Android. This is great news. Can't wait to have a no-fuss paywall bypass on mobile again.

The permissions are the Chromium ones. There is literally no ads nor external SDK or ad-tech or whatever you are referring to (before there was AdMob, but it didn't make much money anyway). https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kiwibro... The way Kiwi makes money is by partnering with Bing / Yahoo. You launch the browser, it starts with Bing or Yahoo (depending on your country), and... that's it. Bing…

I've never tried Kiwi Browser but had similarly come across it while searching. The dev themselves refers to them as ads[1] (2022), though prior to being accepted properly into Bing's referral program Kiwi redirected all search queries through their own servers[2][3] (2021) (the original Kiwi repo's issues tab has been deleted since).

Tbf the dev always sounds reasonable in their responses but was a little off-putting initially so I kinda understand the GP's impression.

[1] https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomme...

[2] https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.co...

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