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A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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Re: A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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SponsorBlock now works on Android, awesome!

Wow, I hadn't realized that Firefox for Android didn't have SponsorBlock until now! I'm using Firefox on the PinePhone, it's quirky as fuck but has always had SponsorBlock. I use it with Invidious. Now, may I suggest NewPipe if you use Android? I've heard the official version refuses to implement SponsorBlock but I see there are forks with it.

LibreTube also incorporates sponsorblock.

Re: A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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Nice. I needed to do so much trickery to get bypass paywalls to work. Now all we need is to get proper tab groups on desktop and I can be fulfilled.

Proper profile support on desktop is the only missing feature for me now.

Re: A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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Absolutely cannot wait for true Firefox on iPhone.

Same, I’ve been using DuckDuckGo privacy browser and every update seems to break something

I use Brave on iOS from time to time when I need good ad blocking. It’s built in like on the desktop version.

Re: A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, I’ve been using DuckDuckGo privacy browser and every update seems to break something

I use Brave on iOS from time to time when I need good ad blocking. It’s built in like on the desktop version.

Thanks will give it a go

Re: A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived

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I'm not sure about calling it a new world of open extensions, seeing as Firefox used to support running any extension you wanted and then Mozilla artificially removed that and are now patting themselves on the back for... re-enabling it? Possibly with some extra APIs to make the experience nicer? (Which in fairness is worth something; desktop extensions were wonky on mobile)

They did not re-enabled it.

They provided tools to make the extensions compatible specifically with the android version.

Before they were curating what extensions worked fine in Android and only enabled those, now the developers can take care of that and mark the extension as compatible.

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