They should add the ability to switch the “Home” button to Addons button for quick access. I don’t remember if I ever used that home button, but I’m constantly using the menu button, going to addons, then the add-on itself. It would make it much easier since extensions are one of the main highlights of Firefox Android.
Firefox is giving Android users a sneak peek at its open extensions
Submitted 1 year ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidpolice.com/firefox-preview-of-open-extensions-on-android/
Comments
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Nice to see FF doing the work and opening doors to so many extensions. The few things I have encountered on FF that are still a major PITA for me:
- Sometimes tabs gets corrupted in sense that they just wont load any data ans show data of the tab that was shown previously. navigating to other domain and stuff wont work. (Encountered it in Private mode)
- Downloads may sometimes stop in middle.
- I feel the app consumes more battery
Kekzkrieger@feddit.de 1 year ago
first point drives me mad, happens every now and then, a workaround is to close the tab and undo that, gets it to work again. Happens in normal mode as well
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I remember seeing a GitHub Issue regarding this year or two ago. IDK what happened after that since they moved to BugZilla.
If you know the BugZilla Link to the issue, then please do share with me, so that I can subscribe to it. I tried looking for it but maybe I wasn’t framing it right? This type of issue should not even exist at this point tbh.
badbytes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mozilla is bringing back extensions for Firefox on Android, which were removed in 2020 for security reasons and interface overhaul. Firefox extensions will officially be available on Android on December 14, with a dedicated extension page now available in preview to help users discover new content. Firefox will be the only major Android browser supporting an open extension ecosystem, allowing users to create and explore new extensions for the browser.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
security reasons
This is a bit of a weird justification given that they haven’t made any significant changes to extensions on desktop. Why should mobile be different?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They refactored the app in 2020 and they decided that they didn’t want to build robust support for the extension architecture that they were going to migrate away from. And the new architecture was going to be more open and more secure.
It wasn’t that they were intentionally disabling a feature because of a security vulnerability. It was that they didn’t want to rebuild the old busted thing when a better solution was on the roadmap.
Although, the planning around this was shit. A three year gap wasn’t great.
moitoi@feddit.de 1 year ago
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Mozilla is Firefox’s biggest ennemy. Pocket, the Mr Robot ad, now this…
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
the only thing i really want is some startpage extension so i could have bookmarks there… but i’m afraid those will not work. currently it’s absolutely idiotic, there are a few last websites from history (which you can’t pin anymore) and recent bookmarks, which is useless with sync because everything i bookmark on pc fills up the few recents on mobile. on vivaldi you can decide what is on the speed dial.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you tried using collections for that?
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
too easy to accidentally delete. my phone likes to take my taps as swipes and vice versa.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just began switching to Firefox on Android. Any suggestions for add ons I should have?
graymess@lemmy.world 1 year ago
uBlock Origin is always the obvious answer SponsorBlock for YouTube FastForward to skip the delay on link shorteners Reverse Image Search does what it says Imagus enlarges any image you hover over with your mouse and saves you clicks, but can get in the way sometimes Flag Cookies has a lot of uses, but it’s mostly there to just grab my Google Drive cookies so I can download things a lot more efficiently with jdownloader2 Recipe Filter if you’re trying to cook something but don’t want the writer’s autobiography ColorZilla if for whatever reason you want to steal the exact color code of a thing in your browser
nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is there a beta to already try the new sweet flavour?
nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Any word on extension data syncing?
AzureRT@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Now add tabs
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So is there a reason you bitching that a privacy invasive company is being by a less privacy invasive one so the product can be less privacy invasive? I can’t understand this weird “Oh I’m so smart” gotcha.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
exactly if the other company had bought firefox, now i could be concerned
mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I mean. Privacy invasion is privacy invasion. If it happens, it should be called out.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It really hasn’t been that bad. Firefox mobile had ublock origin all this time, which is of course critical to being able to use the web today.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
I just wish they still had a tablet tab UI still.