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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Safari supports extensions. What makes Firefox the first?

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

    Safari mobile is a great browser, but it does not support desktop! extensions, just mobile ones from Apple's store.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Also Firefox mobile already supports (a tiny limited subset of) extensions. And the version before their big UI overhaul supported extensions from the add-on store - although it would be unusable if you loaded up too many.

    The big change is that the new shinier faster version of Firefox will now support their new desktop extension platform - and probably run them much more efficiently.

    Pretty sure the person who wrote this headline only ever used Chrome mobile.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Its not too intuitive to find extensions. For instance, there’s no extensions store. You search in the App Store. Some apps by default come with an extension (1Password, Apollo, etc.)

    Adblock is actually good. So good that I had to uninstall because the shopping links from Google didn’t work!

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