• Blue
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    1492 years ago

    Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn’t use on android.

  • @mrvictory1@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Mobile FF is already awesome with UBlock Origin and YT background playback extensions. I wish to install an auto redirect extension. (Twitter to Nitter) I know it is doable on beta w/ extensions etc. but I want to see them on normal Firefox.

  • Rob T Firefly
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    792 years ago

    That’s nice, maybe they can finally re-enable about:config in the damn thing too. They removed it from mobile Firefox years ago and the lack of it aggravates the hell out of me.

  • @Mininux@sh.itjust.works
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    Doesn’t it already support them ?

    edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile

    edit2: also they forgot about kiwi, but then it’s not a major browser (and is it still maintained ?). still would’ve been cool if they corrected this

  • Cyborganism
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    482 years ago

    They already support uBlock origin and that’s all I need.

    • @KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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      132 years ago

      On android I find its also a good idea to have a system wide ad blocker solution because android and all their apps are so inundated by ads, so I recommend dns66 (which can be found on fdroid) which has multiple blocklists you can subscribe to. This will cover some ads thats are built directly into apps and almost all ads that would appear in websites on a browser. This helps a lot since some apps will open a browser window for -reasons- and they sometimes have their own internal browser or they will just use chrome by default, not respecting your default browser choice, and in those cases you cant have ublock installed to protect you and those pages are so ad-overloaded that finding what you are looking for is next to impossible.

      • Cyborganism
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        42 years ago

        Yeah I wish I could edit my hosts file for example so it blocks all advertisement websites.

      • @time_fo_that@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        I’ve got a Pihole set up running on my NAS but unfortunately it’s really difficult to find ad tracking lists that both 1) block ads effectively and 2) don’t break a large portion of webpages

    • @gun@lemmy.ml
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      42 years ago

      Whoa 🤯. Never realized this somehow. That’s awesome. No ads on mobile.

  • @where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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    442 years ago

    No, no, no! It was supporting all the desktop extensions. For years. Until the damn buggy rewrite for no good reason. And then we were suddenly left with like 5 of them.

    For a year after that I was still running the last stable release. But unfortunately the web evolves too fast.

        • @lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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          32 years ago

          Not all extensions appear to be compatible at the moment. I know if I add a couple of my favorite desktop extensions to my collection that it breaks.

          • @landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
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            12 years ago

            Hmm… interesting. I’m able to use ublock and two extensions for fanfiction. That’s interesting that it just breaks for you.

            • @lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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              22 years ago

              Maybe you’re lucky with your extensions of choice.

              I’m not saying all extensions I tried adding broke the collection - only a couple did; the other extensions worked as expected.

              • @landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
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                12 years ago

                Yeah I suppose so. I have a BUNCH of extension on my desktop Firefox, but I don’t need much on my mobile version tbh. Especially since I have a few extensions that work for websites that already have apps (like I have sponsorblock and pockettube for YouTube but there’s no point in installing them on my mobile FF since I have the YouTube app so…).

                • @lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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                  22 years ago

                  I actively don’t use the YouTube app.

                  No adblocker, sponsorblock, or return the dislike button.

                  I also don’t use the app for a website if the mobile website is good enough. Less software on my phone, so a reduced amount of storage used on apps, fewer updates, hopefully reduced CPU and battery consumption, fewer security issues, reduced data collection, and my phone is just a little cleaner to use. Everyone has their own preference, this is just mine :)

  • Hotwarioinyourarea Ⓥ
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    402 years ago

    But didn’t it used to support desktop extensions on mobile before the redesign about 3 years ago? Also, hasn’t Kiwi had extensions for like 6 years?

    • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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      172 years ago

      I don’t know about pre-79, but their current version supports a very, very limited selection of extensions, many of which are to specifically improve the mobile version of Firefox. Currently, only a total of 22 extensions are supported, many of which share the same purposes.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        182 years ago

        I mean, ad blocking is like 95% of the reason why I want extensions.

        And the other 5% is blocking all those stupid consent popups.

        • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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          22 years ago

          They actually have at least four adblockers available in mobile Firefox on Android: uBlock Origin, AdGuard AdBlocker, Ghostery, and AdNauseum.

    • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml
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      92 years ago

      Is still does, experimentally, if you enable developer settings, rather unintuitively through a Firefox Add-Ons account. Developer settings are not available in the official release but the Nightly builds as well as some forks, like 🦊Fennec, include them.

  • ⁧⁧⁧
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    322 years ago

    Lol what? I remember using Kiwi browser like 7 years ago and it had extension support…

  • Gyoza Power
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    262 years ago

    Kiwi broswer already does it, same with the Orion browser for iOS

    • jpj007
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      142 years ago

      Well as far as adblocking goes, mobile FireFox already supports uBlock Origin.

  • ColorcodedResistor
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    242 years ago

    Holy Fuck. Call me Ramsay, Finally some delicious fucking tech. the separation gap between mobile and pc has been going on for far too long. anything to help merge the pair. yes. all the yes.