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[+] 76 points 3 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 173 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Are you a developer? If not then the only thing you need to know is that Mozilla is essentially announcing enabling desktop extensions to be able to work on mobile

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Sick! I just switched to Firefox nightly so I can use ublacklist on mobile.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's an extension that allows you to blacklist certain websites from appearing in search results. So if you wanna prevent for instance facebook links from showing up in search results, uBlacklist can make that possible.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Firefox Mobile supported add-ons for many years, but due to having to change some things under the hood a few years ago, add-ons got restricted a bit (though you could still use them).

    They're basically announcing they finally fixed the issue and they're coming back.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Firefox for Android previously only supported a limited number of select extensions. They're finally opening it up so you can use any extension.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago

    They don't spell this out, but my interpretation is that extension devs will be able to publish extensions for use on Android, without Mozilla explicitly approving each one of them.

    Many desktop extensions work as-is on Android, so when this goes live, we'll likely see dozens, if not hundreds, of extensions becoming available in the following weeks.

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