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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 godelski »

MikusR wrote: post #414
zrobotics wrote: post #253

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Umm, what? No, this is absolutely not accurate. They're laid out differently than desktop, but at least on android Firefox does have tabs. Not sure on iOS, but that's basically reskinned safari anyway.

I am writing this from Firefox on android. Neither phone nor tablet version has tabs. It has list of open websites ordered in a scrolling window as squares (and for sync reasons call them tabs), but no tabbar and no actual tabs. Chrome and Samsung internet has actual tabbar and tabs.

Are you using firefox focus? Because otherwise idk what to tell you. You can even see it in the images on this engadget post. In both images that they show...

https://www.engadget.com/firefox-for-android-update-08000789...

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

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Post by deprecative »

stevehawk wrote: post #388
nfriedly wrote: post #227

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Ha, you made it to 6, that's impressive! I only got scheduled for one interview, the interviewer was a no-show, and they never answered any of my attempts to reschedule or even find out what happened.

what the eff do they need more than 6 interviews for

What does any company need more than 2? They don't but we inflate the process to make people exhausted just thinking about interviewing.

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

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Post by paulmd »

maverick74 wrote: post #295
driscoll42 wrote: post #271

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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…

> - 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

Was it for public statements that might be construed as creating a hostile work environment?

I don’t know why it’s so hard for leadership to just keep their nose clean, avoid making any sweepingly bigoted statements, do their jobs, and make their millions. If you’re an embarrassment for the company as an IC you’re gone, even if it happened in your personal life and not at work. Why should leadership be held to a lesser standard, especially when they actually do hold power over people’s lives and careers?

Its 2023 and we’re still doing the “blizzard defense”, employees just need to live with the hostile work environment, it’s personal beliefs/not serious, right? And while some companies might let you get away with it, the law is not exactly on your side either.

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

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Post by Dalewyn »

autoexec wrote: post #389
cpeterso wrote: post #378

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Which settings would you like to change in about:config?

There's an ever increasing number of settings I need to change every single time I install firefox. For example network.security.banned.override allows connections to ports firefox blocks by default. I also disable things like prefetch/seer, service workers, WebRTC, autorefresh, normandy, experiments, shield, redirects, searching from the address bar, autoplay, webgl, webassembly, autofill, fingerprinting (battery le…

>normandy

Do I even dare ask WTF William the Conqueror has to do with Firefox...? :V

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

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Post by sfmike »

lolinder wrote: post #27
sfmike wrote: post #19

Would it be possible to inject chrome extensions somehow into firefox that is the final piece where some websites force to just use chrome and it's really annoying and the singular time you have to switch for their chrome based widget/extension to do that websites functionality?

I have never run into this. What websites are you referring to?

one memorable example is in tiktok ads they let you edit creatives as they go live and it is some kind of widget. It won't run it asks to switch to chrome. Not sure if there's a chrome only library it uses or what. Also a lot of marketing extensions are just built in chrome and send you to play store install link, these are two examples where firefox just won't cut it, wish somehow could embed these as i don't want to leave firefox containers.

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

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Post by sfmike »

prirai wrote: post #200
sfmike wrote: post #19

Would it be possible to inject chrome extensions somehow into firefox that is the final piece where some websites force to just use chrome and it's really annoying and the singular time you have to switch for their chrome based widget/extension to do that websites functionality?

You're looking for a chrome user agent. There are user agent switcher extensions on the AMO.

I'll try that thanks but I don't think it's user agent specific Its some sort of chrome based library their app uses

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

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Post by Springtime »

smarnach wrote: post #386
Springtime wrote: post #165

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The irony is addons were natively supported by the regular version of Firefox for Android up until they made the Quantum update, when they removed them and only later with Nightly allowing them to return. I used to have a number of addons installed at that time, including Stylish (prior to the hostile changes), uBlock Origin and UnMHT.

The Quantum update was an update to the Desktop version of Firefox that happened in 2017. Mozilla did not remove access to any mobile add-ons at that time. You probably mean the Firefox Daylight release that happened in August 2020. Firefox Daylight or Fenix was a completely new browser, not an update. That completely new browser did not fully support add-ons at the time it was released, which is why Mozilla introduc…

> The Quantum update was an update to the Desktop version of Firefox that happened in 2017. Mozilla did not remove access to any mobile add-ons at that time.

Legacy addon support was removed from Firefox for Android at that point, too. Wikipedia confirms that in 2017 v56 of the Android version was the last to support them[1][2] and according to the official Android release notes the update was also called Quantum.

You're apparently correct that it didn't technically remove support for WebExtension addons though the addons I used became incompatible with the switch (which unfortunately caused me to switch to another browser after a faithful period of sticking with Firefox), including most that never became re-compatible on either desktop or Android again, including the exceptional UnMHT and sadly Firefox since has lacked MHTML support to this day.

It seems the dropping of legacy addons similarly caused others in this thread to recollect FF for Android as having dropped addon support during that period, given the impact in functionality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_Android#Release_hi...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/57.0/releaseno...

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Post by kasabali »

kibwen wrote: post #274
Firmwarrior wrote: post #236

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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

> some obscure technical goal A multi-process architecture is not an obscure technical goal, it's an essential for modern browsing, and something that Chrome had from the outset, and is a large part of the reason that Chrome originally clobbered Firefox in both security and perceived speed.

That's misleading. Multi process support was implemented in Firefox 48. XUL extension purge was in Firefox 57.

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

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Post by cykros »

There's a lot of talk about Chrome and Firefox. It seems simple to me -- Brave literally pays me in crypto to use it on desktop, and Firefox Nightly has by far the best extension support on mobile (I've had bypass-paywalls on there for years, which you just can't do on anything else). And then on desktop, Opera has GPT support built in, comes in handy when working on old machines for general system resource use being moderate.

Chrome never even enters the equation. Even at work, when I've got a choice between Chrome and Edge, Edge has taken over for me because of the ability to "turn a site into an app" which lets me have work resources on the taskbar as unique icons I can easily access to switch between.

I think the one thing I keep Chrome installed on my desktop for (because I have all of them) is the superior Chromecast support if I feel like casting some streaming media to the TV in the other room from a site that isn't supported by the Roku TV.

I get the social and business issues with Mozilla, but I don't see it going anywhere for me on mobile. Probably not coming back on the desktop until they literally pay me to use it though.

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

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Post by MikusR »

godelski wrote: post #431
MikusR wrote: post #414

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I am writing this from Firefox on android. Neither phone nor tablet version has tabs. It has list of open websites ordered in a scrolling window as squares (and for sync reasons call them tabs), but no tabbar and no actual tabs. Chrome and Samsung internet has actual tabbar and tabs.

Are you using firefox focus? Because otherwise idk what to tell you. You can even see it in the images on this engadget post. In both images that they show... https://www.engadget.com/firefox-for-android-update-08000789...

Can you poit to the picture where Firefox has tabbar?
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