massive W firefox
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14
Submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t give them too much credit. They’re only returning most of what they took away four years ago.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They’re not changing their minds though, that was always the plan?
To upgrade the browser then slowly reintroduce extensions
madis@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, where are the themes? Not like they are anything beyond a background change nowadays anyway.
ecnkmaxo@futurology.today 1 year ago
Massive W? Can you translate that to english?
Localhorst86@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s a major win (Massive W) as opposed to a big loss (Huge L)
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Massive W” = Big Win
It’s like saying someone had a really big victory or success. For example, imagine your team winning a game by a lot of points or someone doing really well in a competition. That’s when people might talk about a “massive W.”
moitoi@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s here on Nightly. :)
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Say no more fam
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.de 1 year ago
Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have had this happened to me before, I think it has something to do with Android closing the app because of needing more RAM, hence you go back to FF and find out a blank page or sometimes it is not even the correct tab lol, refreshing it won’t fix it thus you’d need to manually close, or force close the app to get it in a working state.
Also, I haven’t checked on mobile, but the PS Store website just crashes Firefox entirely in macOS lol, those kind of annoyances weren’t present in Chromium based browsers, and I can see this being a huge downside for most people, for me it is worth it because FF is so damn cool.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah that’s weird. I end up needing to open a new tab. Does it randomly.
CatTrickery@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have it happen for webview most times I use it. I ended up using Kiwi Browser instead because of it.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
this happened to me atleast twice a day. it’s annoying.
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 1 year ago
Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
Zapp@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I am also using the same method and hoping the same thing. I doubt we will have to do the song and dance just because it is very much a developer feature test route and they have had extension functionality previously in the regular release.
Also looking forward to pulling back to stable build.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Common Firefox W
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?
prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Me? I am looking forward to improve performance on Android
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no i still think it’s boring
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I honestly can’t wait for this to happen so I can finally get Flagfox on my phone. I likenbeing able to see where a website might be hosted, where the server is.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Next, tab stacking.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And a tablet UI
nodiet@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yup, my android tablet is the only device I own (unless you count my smart tv) where I don’t use Firefox. At least there’s kiwi so you can have a tablet interface and still be able to install addons
Zerfallen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox is dead to me until they bring back a proper tablet UI. No tab bar is a deal breaker.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Is it a different UI than the one that has on the iPad?
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is very needed, I think you can get around on desktop with some neat extension, but we are fucked on mobile lol.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
What are some good extensions for Firefox? I got the standard ad-block but I don’t know what else is out there.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ublock origin Search by image web archives (for when you hit a paywall) old reddit redirect (so you don’t get stuck on the broken mobile site)
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I straight up can’t see anything on new Reddit now. just “something went wrong”. they’re really screwing things up -_-
DV8@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It’s not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained. Use LibRedirect instead.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 1 year ago
We collect information from you while you are using our Website or Mobile App, or when viewing Cultivate content via our Extension
No thanks. Fuck apps that track everything I do and sell it to randos
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Looks cool, is it mainly for the US? Also does it show other Amazon sellers or local brick and mortar stores?
mlg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
tbh I didn’t even know it was limited because all I use is uBlock origin lmao
Will be fun to see Wappalyzer on mobile
whereisk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Do I need to install mobile-specific add-ons or will the ones I have on desktop sync across?
danque@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy shit that’s huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From screenshots I learned some new extensions to use for desktop and mobile. Thanks u/throws_lemy@lemmy.nz
ecnkmaxo@futurology.today 1 year ago
They’ve been saying this for many years
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 year ago
It is very late for this addition, I stopped being frustrated about it years ago and just switched browser.
ecnkmaxo@futurology.today 1 year ago
Same. Firefox on deskop is still the best browser, but it sucks on mobile with or without support for extensions.
Mek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And here’s me; bought a Google Pixel and the first thing I did was disable Chrome and install Firefox. Reading this makes it even more worthwhile.
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now install GrapheneOS and fully delete chrome.
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
I’m glad to hear it, this will make the mobile version much more usable.
cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Will extensions be usable/ allowed on iPad? Is it… Too ambitious? 😬
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not until apple allows non-webkit browsers like an operating system would. It’s happening but I’m not sure when.
PS it can only happen because the EU forced them. that’s right, your os maker had to be forced by the government to allow basic computing functionality. Apple is shitty.
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
That’s not the reason; Safari and the like still support the WebExtensions API. They just require extensions to be signed, .app’d, etc and only go to Safari which is a lot.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I wish… I want Dark Reader… It is a crime that most browsers don’t bundle it, a bigger crime is that websites don’t support this.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Is there any news about themes getting support back?
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I know this is a big thing regarding extension on mobile, is Kiwi browser totally opened to extensions too, or does it only have a selected extensions list available?
Anyway, having this without any hacky thingys is a big win.
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I only use kiwi for a browser extension that has 4000 installs. So I assume kiwi extensions aren’t limited to a selection.
WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios
notepass@feddit.de 1 year ago
That one is on apple tho.
Hoping for more EU intervention on those tools.
novapitch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?
A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google’s monopoly in the space.
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn’t that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.
But, ios legitimately sucks and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.
WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used Android and its variants for 10+ years. With each version you had to do more and more battle to somewhat safeguard any shed of privacy. It was exhausting.
So I bit the bullet and chose the lesser of two evils. Apple > Google.
Happy so far.
TheMinions@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Orion supports (some) Firefox extensions. Worth a look imo.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wow, yes it is!
Just tested Firefox Focus, Vivaldi, Opera, DuckDuckGo, and Safari with Hyperweb (non-optimized Adblock configuration admittedly).
Orion blocked more ads out of the box than the rest. Impressive. Says it supports some Chrome extensions too. (Didn’t test.)
Interesting there’s no default search engine. There is an extremely gentle prod towards Kagi by listing all other search engines under “Ad-Supported”.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah I just found this out and sure enough it works.
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t worry. It sucks on Android. It’s not nearly as fast and smooth, as the PC application
kattenluik@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It’s the same/better as any browser app on Android, and even if that isn’t true your comment is still completely pointless and ignores what they said.
helmet91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I’ve never used iOS.)
smolyeet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible
WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios