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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year
(blog.mozilla.org)
One more reason to stick with Firefox
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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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.
It's available in nightly (and I think dev) builds
If you don't want to use the potentially unstable Nightly, Dev or Beta, you can use Fennec (stable builds with dev features).
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.
Have a look at YouTube ReVanced if you want a much better YouTube experience on Android. :)
use Newpipe, it's free software, unlike revanced.
Doesn't it already support them ?
~~edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile ~~ edit3: as pointed by the comment below, only on nightly and certain forks
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
I've been using the nightly build, using the desktop extensions for a while now. It's SO worth it. In particular, the YouTube "SponsorBlock" is super convenient.
I would kill for this on iOS. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty happy with my Safari Extensions, but I’d rather have uBlock Origin, Stylish etc.
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.
At least with firefox beta, you can create your own collection of extensions and use those. That's what I do and I can install any extension.
More here: https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/
I have it on Firefox Nightly with the dev stuff. It's pretty great tbh
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?
Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn't use on android.
Any reason to switch from Fennec?
Wont Feddec support mobile extensions in the future?
The more extensions you install in your browser, the more easier is to track your behavior on internet.
Kiwi Browser
Kiwi broswer already does it, same with the Orion browser for iOS
That's why the article itself adds the "major browser" qualification.
That's nice,but it would have been great to get certificates into Firefox mobile. Those are exclusive to Chrome browsers and that sucks.
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.
Orion supports Firefox and chrome extensions
Stop lying, Kiwi has been around for so long
They probably mean official browsers, not random forks.
How is Kiwi less a browser than firefox? Non-sense
Orion Browser by the team that makes the Kagi search engine makes this possible on ios already
safari has been able to do this for years
~~Vivaldi~~ I meant Kiwi (chromium) also uses the regular chrome web store.
Also, I thought there was a previous version of Firefox Mobile that had access to the desktop add-ons site.
Firefox mobile used to have mobile add-ons but it was separate and naturally therefore more limited.
They already support uBlock origin and that's all I need.
On iOS or just Android?
Oh on Android for me.
Now Brave needs to do the same and also create its own extension store