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Same for Firefox on Android
Firefox on Android has no tabs.
Firefox on Android absolutely has tabs.
Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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Brave's adblocking seems decidedly worse than ublock origin. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16935 except on iOS where apple's restrictions are drastically limiting. You are so insistent that the feature built in primarily because the platform you've chosen has limited your ability to do what literally every other platform can do. I know there are some benefits privacy wise to the Apple ecosystem but it…
I've actually recently switched from using uBlock in Brave (desktop Brave) to the built-in blocker. They both use the same selectable filter lists, so I notice barely if any difference. I'll also scuttle Cookiebro once Brave's cookie auto-delete moves out of beta. Less extensions means less attack surface.
Selectable filter lists isn't close to uBlock equivalency, that's just table stakes for any adblocker. As far as I've been able to determine, in Brave there is no way to view a list/grid/matrix of which domains are being blocked and which sort of content is being blocked; this is a feature I use in ublock origin / umatrix a lot and don't wish to go without. (For this matter, ublock origin in advanced mode is claimed to have equivalency to umatrix in this regard, but if that's true I can't figure out how.) Also missing from Brave adblocker, as far as I can tell, is an interface for creating cosmetic filters. I use these frequently for removing things like floating headers and footers, and other obnoxious first-party elements that aren't ads but nevertheless degrade websites to satisfy some web designers random whims.
Here is an example of Brave's filtering falling short: http://0x0.st/H_YB.jpg
Do you see that wide gray box that says "Youtube Featured, RELEASED this week!" I consider that an ad for trashy commercial popculture slop, I hate it and want it gone. How do I remove it with Brave's blocker? I have ad blocking turned up to aggressive but it's still there. I can't figure out how to create a new cosmetic filter, Youtube is unusable to me without this. If I scroll down further I see similar boxes for "Trending", "Shorts", and "Celebrate World's Indigenous People's Day." All of this needs to go; in Firefox I don't see any of it because, with ublock origin, I created a cosmetic filter for ytd-rich-section-renderer. "Rich section" indeed...
Anyway, I didn't downvote your above comment, which is now flagged as well. Near as I can figure the "modern godwin" accusation leveled against you is either because you mentioned brave (is Eich claimed to be a nazi now?) or because you said Mozilla is being woke. Either way, a very stupid reaction to your inoffensive comment. This place is becoming orange reddit.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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I think Firefox's addon policy is one of the reasons they lost market share. Moving from oldscool extensions to webextensions they lost their unique selling point. Firefox was the only browser that you could really theme. It's adblock existed earlier and was better than others (and is soon again due to Manifest v3?). Especially for non-tech-savvy people, who don't know what a browser is, if they need a certain featur…
No offense but you could only come to this conclusion if you've looked at literally zero data and are just shooting from your hip based on sporadic HN conversations. Their market share was dropping for a long time before, and it was dropping for a long time after. And to the extent that switching addon models helped them improve performance during their big marketing push in 2017, it probably got them a few users bac…
Seriously, there's an amazing amount of shooting from the hip happening here.
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#294This is a big surprise and a welcome one. I honestly had given up hope of this happening. It's disappointing that it took this long, but it is a big deal to have full extension support on Android again. I'm very happy to see this news.
I use Firefox Nightly on Android but just only use adblock, privacy extensions and pay wall unblock
Same, and its amazing.
How can people complain about FF so much, when it's the only mobile browser that even gives you this option, and radically cleans up mobile browsing.
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I see people hating on Mozilla, not Firefox. They absolutely deserve it too. They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead. One would think they'd try to fix the web by making Firefox the dominant browser.
Can someone elaborate why Mozilla gets hate? I don't pay much attention to that and just use Firefox.
Well... there are a few reasons but i believe the biggest ones are that
- they fired lots of good devs to cut on expenses but then keep paying more and more to top execs (and we're not getting any anomalous good results that justify it iyam)...
- from what i understood, they also "kind of" kicked Brendan Eich (yeah, Brave's CEO, the guy that invented JS, etc...) out over some "personal" things that had nothing to do with Mozilla (but then again... you should go read about this and take your own conclusions)
- Firefox, also start following the herd and that led to it cutting lots of features people loved (e.g.: Firefox had tab grouping addons - and then a native feature - way before we had Chrome browser... now everyone complains firefox is the only browser that does not support tab groups... kind of ironic!)
- some more .......
All in all it's a love-hate relation! We love and need Firefox because it's the only good thing left around, but people are very pissed up with "Mozilla's attitudes and decisions"
then again... this is just what i understand from the "news"!!! You should really go out and see what others think about it!!!
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https://blog.mozilla.org/en/ Just read their blog. Latest three: - EU's AI Act - Fakespot school supplies? - Making trustworthy chatbots to support women plagued by violence and abuse The first one might make sense? Second one WTF? And third is disgusting (I know people effected and the LAST thing they want is some chatbot). None of these are related strongly to Firefox. I quit donating to them years ago after it was…
There really aren't any software engineering resources taken up with writing those blog entries. Would it help if they posted a weekly blog entry entitled "Yes, we're still working on Firefox"? I don't understand why everyone keeps talking about this as if it's an either/or.
Because the things an organization talks about gives you an idea of their priorities and their values. If a technical org you otherwise supported suddenly started posting blog entries about how Hitler wasn't such a bad guy, and maybe they could write a chatbot to help correct misconceptions about Nazis, you would probably change your opinion about them, regardless of how much effort it took to write the post.
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#297We 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 d…
So you just hate everyone? Got it.
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#298Firefox for Android is lacking on so many basic features, it's amazing that they prioritize anything else before fixing those. E.g deep links. Which is very, very basic feature for mobile. Firefox on Android is unusable without it - and it seems like no one prioritize this, so excuse me for not being excited by any other feature. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54653641/app-links-not-w... https://github.com/mozil…
Again, like much of the discussion around Firefox, feature vs bug is in the eye of the beholder. I think the UX of deep links on Firefox is vastly preferable. I hate when a website opens the play store and forceably tells you to install an app. I'm in a browser because I want a web interface. If I want to open your app, I will click the menu button and hit open in app. But that is reserved for very very few trusted a…
Yes, I also love this. I much rather have control, and decline to install apps.
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#299There'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 feels like Chrome's original protest was that extensions would be too slow.
But phones are so much faster now! And with MV3 chrome claims they have prevented a variety of ways extensions might be slow.
I don't know how Chrome can keep justifying this old old choice.
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Firefox lost power-users because 1) performance was bad 2) Chrome does very aggressive marketing and various Google sites break randomly on Firefox. And performance was very often bad because of extensions. Perhaps anecdotal, but whenever I ask a Chrome user why they don't use Firefox, that's the main two reasons they cite. I do ask often though. What "certain features" do non-tech-savvy people need? I know lots of d…
>Firefox lost power-users There is no better vertical tab solution than FireFox + Sidebury. If you are using horizontal tabs, you are not a "power-user" of a browser.
Sure there is, check out Arc browser.