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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.
Anything is more fully featured than Firefox, since it didn’t have them at all.
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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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
Lol yeah, mily mistake. But on mobile if you're trying to be 100% FOSS obtainium and f-droid are basically all you need, updates are seamless with these two.
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Taking that away was just the last straw. Trust has been broken, and I don't like being bullshitted and abused, and then brow beaten and guilt tripped for not liking it. I use tools that respect me and do what I need them to do, I refuse to be herded into a set of acceptable behaviors and thoughts like a cow, and by a corporation no less. The people making decisions at Mozilla should be ashamed of themselves.
> and I don't like being bullshitted and abused, and then brow beaten and guilt tripped for not liking it. So after your lil'karen rant you switched to proprietary browsers that do worst?
I don't use proprietary software period.
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Tangentially related, but your comment reminded me of this classic: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...
Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.
So I could build a web browser with 5 minutes of typing online? Wow.
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Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.
The entitlement and blatant hypocrisy of Mozilla haters is insane. "Mozilla does weird things to try and diversify their income so that Google cannot shut them down one day randomly if they're finally competitive, but that's not the one blessed thing of committing code to the single blessed repository of Firefox, so instead I'm going to use the browser built by a company that makes all of its money through advertisin…
See you misunderstand me. I don't use chrome. I don't like chrome. chrome mobile doesn't allow extensions either, and pretty obviously to protect google from adblockers. It seems to me that your only argument is chrome is evil, and I never once said I use chrome. You're arguing with someone that isn't here.
I don't believe Mozilla cares about the open web. If they did they wouldn't continuously kneecap their users. They use this open web argument to browbeat people into accepting their awful decisions that users don't like, then they do things one after another that have a predictable outcome of reducing their market share. Hard line firefox users make every excuse in the world for why people should tolerate any abuse they throw at people, it's similar to how political parties scaremonger about their opponents. It's grimy.
I want to like firefox. I want to use it. It's frustrating seeing it fall like this which is where the anger comes from. It's like having a fuck up brother and when you tell him he needs to quit fucking up he calls you a piece of shit tool of the bourgeoise. Who needs that bullshit in their lives? So I don't feel entitled to Firefox, I use alternatives.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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Yep, and I still have to deal with my settings being reset every time I update, their user hostile UX flows, strange highlights on web page elements, and all the other stuff Firefox says aren't important to users. But I do it, why? So that all those scaremongers who screech "but you have to use Firefox! Otherwise youre helping the evil only other game in town!" like they always do don't have a single argument. Mozill…
Firefox works fine for me, setting have never been reset. Feels like you have some other issues to work out unrelated to free software.
Go into about:config, turn off video autoplay and then update your browser, see if it persists.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
#427> Once you’re ready to test the mobile version of your extension, create a collection on AMO and test it on Firefox for Android Nightly Just in case anyone missed this, it seems that Android Firefox STILL will not allow anonymous installation of extensions. Even if you wrote the extension yourself, and want to install on your own device. Only workaround is to only install approved extensions, or be forced into regist…
AMO account isn't actually required for the user, it's required for some entity to create the "collection", but you don't actually have to have an account to use whichever collection with FF on your phone. Certainly most people who are using this method now correspond 1:1 to AMO account holders, but that isn't a necessity of the software. Any sufficiently motivated person could make a collection called "Too Cool For…
> AMO account isn't actually required for the user, it's required for some entity to create the "collection", but you don't actually have to have an account to use whichever collection with FF on your phone.
the backwards logic to justify this sentence is mind boggling. I wrote my own extension, I should be able to install it on my own device without getting permission from daddy Mozilla, period. I should not have to register for that, in the same way I dont have to register with Debian to install a program on Linux.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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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.
One single click, versus at least three. And I use the annoyances lists, but they never catch the overlays I encounter, it's just a niche personal taste kind of thing.
Well, the lists are edited manually by humans. You need to report the overlays you encounter for them to be hidden for everybody else.
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* The laws specify that it must be opt-in. If a site doesn't respect this, you can't expect it to respect any of your choices anyway. * You can now also use uBlock Origin to set cookies and LocalStorage entries automatically. The annoyance lists already set opt-out cookies for sites like Google and Youtube * Firefox has actually been isolating third-party cookies and other site data (e.g. LocalStorage) for over a yea…
Client side data is only part of the problem, and it's a common myopic argument to GDPR for opponents of GDPR to say people should just use their browser's cookie controls. Server side fingerprinting is as much as a problem, something the ad industry has adopted since Safari added ITP and are accelerating since Chrome has been making noises about following Safari and Firefox for a few years now. I suspect as soon as…
uBlock Origin blocks connections to trackers/marketing companies by default. If you don't even connect to them, they can't fingerprint or track you.
Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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Equating any of the three examples the OP gave with "Hitler wasn't such a bad guy" is... an interesting take. But nevertheless, you're only looking at one thing. Why not look at the Firefox release notes? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/116.0/releasenotes/ Three releases so far this month! Look at that technical organization iterating on its core product!
Someday HN may learn the difference between equation and comparison...
Humans in general haven't so we'll hope for a better tomorrow, together, tomorrow.