This is most definitely a step I the right direction but as I'll always say, the one and only killer feature on mobile is Text Reflow. Being able to zoom into a long text and knowing you'll be able to read it without scrolling sideways is a must have feature for mobile browsers, yet nearly none of them have it on Android save Opera and at least at one point Samsung Browser.
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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>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.
I hadn't even heard of that one until today. Thanks - I'll check it out.
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#353There'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…
> Safari don't sorry(sic) add-ons at all iOS and iPadOS Safari has supported extensions for a while now. https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/get-extensions-ipada7ca... https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0...
Only 11 years after the competition! Courage
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> People get so pissy about mozilla pissing away a few dollars here and there It’s more than a few dollars. For years now, the majority of the Mozilla Foundation’s income goes to things other than developing Firefox.
Yes, mozilla is desperate to diversify income so google can't shut them down, and if you are a manager who can usefully direct improvements and plans for a web browser project, google can afford to pay you basically any dollar amount to keep you out of the hands of mozilla, so they probably don't have stellar management. Meanwhile firefox works well, is plenty performant, and isn't pushing "standards" that try to mak…
Yours is a false dilemma. Being aghast at Mozilla’s non-profit mismanagement does not mean that one is using any other browser. A lot of us here are using Firefox but hoping and praying that the Foundation will be called to account or development will be taken over by some more benevolent and competent force.
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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.
Half that billion has probably been spent on interviews that they randomly decide they no longer are hiring for right before they take the entire company to Hawaii. I'm not salty about the 6+ interviews or anything.
Didn't they let go the curl guy?
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It would probably be a lot of work for not a lot of people. You can use Firefox extensions on iOS via Orion Browser. [1] https://apps.apple.com/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449820... [2] https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#iosext
For a moment, I got excited for this. It did not turn up good, as the chrome extension I wanted to try is not working.
Try with the next release coming this weekend, a lot more web extension APIs will be supported on iOS.
https://browser.kagi.com/updates/orion-iOS-release-notes.htm...
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
#357There'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…
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…
Firefox can still be themed. Albeit less than before. IMO it was the right choice for security, even if it makes things more limited or awkward than before.
It also remains more blocking capable than Chrome, for those so inclined.
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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 randomly broke all my extensions and workflows one day in the pursuit of some obscure technical goal, via forced update that I couldn’t roll back. I asked about it, and they banned me from their subreddit, so I deleted that stupid browser and never went back
"Sam Adams stopped making the beer I like so I went into a random pub to complain loudly and got thrown out. Now I just drink Bud Light!"
Today Mr. Firmwarrior stands in the public square shouting about Firefox some more.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
#359There'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…
Haha what? Since when does Safari not offer add-ons?
On mobile? From 2007-2022, and it's still not as fully featured as FF.
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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.
uBlock doesn’t, but plenty of browsers have built-in adblocking, with one of the very browsers missing it being.. drumroll.. iOS Firefox! Mozilla refuses to address how having no adblock is a security risk, so I have moved all my friends and family over to iOS Brave. Firefox built its own demise by having a bizarre focus on woke stuff instead of features that users direly need.
I don't believe Mobile Safari has built-in adblock; IIRC you have to install a 3rd party content blocker. Funnily enough, Firefox Focus works as a content blocker, so when I browse with iOS Firefox it blocks the majority of ads.