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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (20 children)

I feel like I have seen this news since forever, I am happily living my life with Firefox... Although the android mobile really needs some love.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Oh man. Once Firefox on Android got extension support, I hopped on that train so hard. No ads on mobile browser? Heck yeah.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has extensions support for like 6 years at this point. Unless you got some extreme obscure extensions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Huh. I was under the impression that proper extension support (eg ublock origin) only came about recently?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Been working for a lomg time now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Well then. I'm unsure what news article I read that spurred me to try Firefox on mobile, but that's my recollection of the order of events.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You are correct in the proper extension support part. Until recently FF Android only supported a handful of selected addons made specifically for it.
uBlock Origin however has been one of those for almost a decade now.
I'm sorry you have been suffering ads all this time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

There were a few years when only a handful were supported. Before that it was as open as now, leaving compatibility responsibility to the extension developers.

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