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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 OrangeMusic »

lemper wrote: post #48

even though i am an exclusively firefox user both on desktop and mobile, i don't even know what kind of desktop version's extension that i would use on mobile. currently, i only use adblock and so far my experience is quite stellar. though it should be noted that i use browser on phone just to consume text. no video, no audio, and even picture is rarely the focus. so, what do i miss?

The "I Don't Care About Cookies" extension.

I seriously can't live without it, anytime I'm trying to read a website and a fucking pop-up obscures the text I'm trying to read, I want to throw my device on the floor.

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

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Post by causi »

godelski wrote: post #397
causi wrote: post #228

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all this has accomplished in the last decade is a decrease in market share You are confusing cause and effect. We've been saying the same things as we watch Mozilla slowly strangle Firefox to death for a decade. That said, this is great news. I'm very much looking forward to being able to capture embedded videos on Android and maybe even get back my precious DownThemAll.

> We've been saying the same things as we watch Mozilla slowly strangle Firefox to death for a decade. Absolutely not true. I still hear people talking about FF as if it is pre-quantum. They complain about how slow it is. But quantum made it faster and more secure overnight. There's still a lot of people who are complaining and have just never tried it after the big issues were fixed. Or they try it, there's a small…

I'm sorry, I think it is you who are confusing cause and effect. You participated in the monopolization of browsers and are suffering the consequences of it. Because of a little convenience. The path to hell is indeed paved with "good intentions."

Firefox has been my browser of choice since v1.5. If I didn't use it I wouldn't need to complain about it. Its slide ever-closer to Chrome-hood is why we're disappointed.

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

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

programmer_dude wrote: post #242
iakov wrote: post #193

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Textbook whataboutism. Google is objectively evil, what that has to do with Firefox, my "user agent", showing me Disney ads?

Textbook idiocy. Whataboutism is not a phallacy when the discussion is about comparing things.

I have to ask... did you deliberately spell it "phallacy" because you mentioned 'comparing things'??

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

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Post by programmer_dude »

CatWChainsaw wrote: post #473
programmer_dude wrote: post #242

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Textbook idiocy. Whataboutism is not a phallacy when the discussion is about comparing things.

I have to ask... did you deliberately spell it "phallacy" because you mentioned 'comparing things'??

No comment :)

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

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

godelski wrote: post #58

There'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…

(Samsung Internet isn't too bad for another forum website I use. At least it has the option to do tabs in lists as opposed to the unwieldy grids Chrome forced on users, deprecating tab lists...)

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

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Post by WASDx »

Moldoteck wrote: post #461
WASDx wrote: post #459

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I'm very happy with Consent-O-Matic for auto accepting cookie popups with privacy preserving choices done for me. Prior to that I used "i don't care about cookies". https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

Why autoaccept?

I meant "accept" as in OK'ing the dialog, which it does with the most restrictive options by default. So, autoreject if you wish.

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

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Post by donkeybeer »

mrguyorama wrote: post #312
donkeybeer wrote: post #244

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And their constant user hostile redesigns. Suddenly tabs are floating separately from their pages. And now if a page is playing audio you can no longer see its favicon, etc Speaking of mobile firefox where did Save as PDF vanish and why? and so on edit: I have been told in a reply the save pdf feature still exists but has been changed for no reason to a different location in the menu

"The favicon will show a special icon to show you which tab started autoplaying some stupid video" The utter horror. It's so user hostile to make an easy way to see which tab is the source of the annoying sound you are hearing. Oh, and it doesn't hide the favicon unless you have so many tabs open each tab can only fit the favicon. So for probably the vast majority of users who don't spend their days with 300 tabs the…

Revisiting this comment to reiterate and make clear: the audio playing icon was always shown...but under the website favicon...the new design makes it so that only one of the audio icon or favicon is visible at a time.

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

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Post by throwaway67743 »

Maybe they can fix some of the many outstanding bugs in Firefox Android while they're at it... Like not suggesting logins if autofill is disabled, or at least allowing mass delete for logins so it doesn't suggest them.

It's impossible that this hasn't already been seen so it's absurd it's still an issue.

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

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Post by scoliosis »

godelski wrote: post #58

There'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…

Samsung Internet is actually a shockingly good browser for Android, with native adblocking and dark mode for websites (that isn't atrociously slow like Dark Reader on FF)

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

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Post by n0tinventedhere »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #259
mgbmtl wrote: post #232

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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.

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