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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.
Fennec still supports it, just as it supports add-ons from the official Mozilla store. Don't see any reason why I should go back to the official app.
How do I make use of this? I can't see a way to install them on my Fennec from F Droid
You have to add a custom addons collection. That's how.
I haven't gotten around making them and using them, and it seems every guide online is vastly out of date
Is there an easy way to migrate from the official app to Fennec? Keeping accounts, extensions and settings?
If you have enabled the sync feature in Firefox, it seamlessly works with Fennec; as does the integration between Fennec and Firefox Desktop. Simply log on with your Firefox account in Fennec, and you won't even feel the difference.
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).
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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.
I used to have an app to do the redirection on several sites automically but afair the Nitter thing was just so unstable that I removed the app.
Same, like 30% of the time it worked, the other 70% it would be very slow or not load at all
It might have been some time ago, because even the main instance has been consistently working for me as of recent
Yeah this winter and spring
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
This article was weird for me also I have all my extension already installed like bitwarden for passwords and all kind of adblockers and scriptblockers
Nightly versions and Fennec.
Mull too
Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it's chromium based if remember correctly.
oh I didn't know, pretty cool
at least both chromium and Firefox get a version with add ons
Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn't use on android.
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
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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?
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.
Kiwi Browser
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