Firefox on android already has ublock origin available

Average Joe doesn't use extensions.

Antitrust lawsuits are a lot of things, but quick isn't one of them.

It's not a new feature, not especially attractive to average joe and I don't really think average joe even cares about features as long as Youtube, GMail and Google Drive load.

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I was also confused about it

only a small list of extensions is available today

Ublock Origin and some other extensions were whitelisted. With this change, any extension can (theoretically) be used on mobile.

Even Orion Browser on iOS supports extensions. Bit perplexed by this headline.

And Developer Tools! :D

Unless things have changed, Apple's policy of generally not allowing programs to download executable code would block this. Browsers are locked into using Apple's allowed web engines because of this, so basically every browser on iOS is safari or re-themed safari

The Orion browser on iOS currently allows the use of some Firefox and Chrome extensions, including uBlock Origin.

Orion Browser should do fine with WebExtension support (from both Chrome and Firefox add-on stores) until Mozilla steps ahead.

It looks like support is either up to the developer or simply optimization is up to the developer. They mention that extension devs should start optimizing their desktop extensions for mobile but doesn't say whether that's required or simply suggested as a non-optimized extension may not work properly.

But theoretically, any extension at the very least could be made to work on mobile. It appears to be an open system as opposed to now where it's only approved ones.

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

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.

And Beta too :)

Thankfully those are only getting more popular unlike things like Windows phone back in the day. Hopefully it will continue improving over time