This sounds like great news!
Firefox is already at the top of my list of preferred browsers on Android, but more extension support has always been on my feature wishlist.
This sounds like great news!
Firefox is already at the top of my list of preferred browsers on Android, but more extension support has always been on my feature wishlist.
You can use desktop extensions in mull?
So you can! That's awesome, thanks. For anyone who wants to know:
You can create a custom addon collection on addons.mozilla.org
Then to add your custom collection in mull (or ff nightly, I guess) enable debug mode by going to settings > about mull and tapping the logo 5 times. Then go back and under the advanced section you can find "custom add-on collection"
You can also do the same with a custom collection on Firefox Nightly: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/
Yep, after I found this out I ditched Chrome immediately once they started rolling out Google Search ads that couldn't be blocked via DNS. Firefox mobile feels a little less smooth than Chrome admittedly, but the ability to add extensions like ublock/darkreader/consent-o-matic make is a no contest in terms of overall user experience.
The one knock is that they took bypass paywalls out of their extension store and the workaround to install it is somewhat cumbersome, so now I'm annoyingly using Kiwi browser for paywalled content and Firefox for everything else. Hopefully this update will make it so I only need one browser again.
That took way too long, but better late than never.
It used to be a thing, didn't it? I remember using any PC browser extension I wanted on my phone at some point and I think it was in Firefox.
Yeah it was removed when they rebuilt Firefox Android on a new engine and they deemed the extension system too unreliable at the time.
It was until FF68, when Mozilla decided that it would improve their market share if they rewrote the whole browser and kicked all their advantages down the drain.
Yes, if you run beta/nightly, create an account on their system, and add the extension to a collection there. That's a lot of hoops to jump through, and it reduces the possible audience for an extension developer to a tiny fraction, so nobody has put any effort into building extensions for Firefox on Android.
Super excited! Firefox is already great and this will just make it more great!
About damn time, they should never have disabled it in the first place.
I'm just hoping for theming to come back to Firefox on Android. Really not into the new UI design either. (T_T)
Heck yeah, have about 5 or 6 extensions I use on the desktop version I wanna use on the mobile version!
Cool! I've been using Firefox Nightly to workaround extension limitations. I'll be able to switch back to having nicer icon colors xD
I hope that with this being official support some extensions regain full features on mobile. For example, vimperator cannot open tabs on mobile currently(using it with samsung dex)
The key takeaway from this is that they're finally rolling out their Web Manifest v3. I'm super excited
cries in Firefox on iPad
At least my phone will make use of this.
Didn't Apple announce that they were going to remove restrictions on 3rd party browsers on iPhones and iPads? You might be seeing a Gecko based Firefox soon.
Yes, but how soon? Will it be available in my country? I can't know.
I'd use Firefox for Android if it had working per - site process isolation.
Good to hear! I've been using using Kiwi, but it would be great if I can use Firefox. I would think security updates would come out quicker.
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