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[–] 114 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

Niceee, Firefox Android needs more attention. It's such an underrated browser. It's non chromium, search bar on bottom by default, uBlock Origin, https-only mode, cookie banner reduction (soon), the best reader mode of all browsers, and addon support.

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    [–] 90 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's the reason why I use Firefox on Android.

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    [–] 84 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Glad I made the switch back to FireFox a year or two ago. As a Dev, I was entrenched in Chrome and it wasn't an easy move but with the path Google are currently treading around ad serving, blocking the ad blocks etc. I feel I made the right choice.....

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

    I use Firefox on Android and it's great. Ad blocking is the big one but it's just a good browser. I deleted the Twitter and Reddit apps recently and Firefox lets me bookmark the sites on the launcher so it's like a separate "app" but not taking up 100s MB of space and I can block ads on these sites. I'm hoping that I'll be to use the Twitter desktop extension that prunes even more junk out of the experience - recommendations, what's trending and other clickbait garbage

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  • [–] 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 (5 children)

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

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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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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Reads like they are finally returning to full addon support. I've been using Firefox for Android long enough to remember that, before the grand redesign, they supported all addons and let you access about:config.

    Back then, I was using uMatrix on FfA, now I am forced to use NoScript, which is more fickle to use and less stable.

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

    Finally. You've been able to use desktop addons this whole time, but you have to do a whole runaround:

    • Create Firefox account
    • Sign in on desktop
    • Install the add-ons you want
    • Create an app collection and publish it
    • Sign in on mobile
    • Enable developer mode
    • Download your custom app collection
    • (Optional: sign out on both devices)
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    [+] 44 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
    [–] 29 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Woah that’s awesome. So ublock origin on android Firefox? Freaking nice!

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  • [–] 188 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    uBlock on Firefox mobile has been out for a while now

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

    From the beginning. Even when Firefox had to restrict the mobile add-ons a few years ago, uBlock was one of the few that remained.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Is there an extension for hiding the annoying attempts of reddit web app trying to get you to install their app, then login through Google? Still find myself there when it's from a Google search.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    This is great news, I've just switched to Firefox & Firefox Focus on Android as a longtime user of Mobile Chrome and Desktop Firefox. It always felt weak on mobile, but things have changed. Still hating the purple though, and the placement of the new tab button but that's a small price to pay.

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

    I'm already using extensions on Android with Firefox Nightly but yeah I guess that's nice

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nice, no more nightly and beta for me...

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    So we finally get some major functionality back? I never cared about that redisgn but removing proper extension support was a really shitty part of it that I did care about!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    If this comes through, I might no longer need Iceraven (andoid firefox with full addon support, like before they tore it out; I use it for Singlefile)

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Alright, so what extensions are you guys looking forward to? On mobile I don't think about it too much cause most of the websites I use on Desktop I use as apps on Android, so a couple of website specific extensions are useless for me

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