Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
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In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, ...
  • Mininux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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

    • King@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Other browsers already do, firefox users just cant stop licking mozillas balls

            • King@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              2 years ago

              I think youre the one confused other mobile browsers already support extensions, too bad 100 people downvoting lack the skill to google

          • qfjp@lemmy.oneEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            It’s desktop extensions. Most mobile browsers only support a subset of all available extensions (including Firefox!). Now, Firefox will support its whole library of extensions.

            • King@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              2 years ago

              They only mention “open extension ecosystem” idk if that means everything and also I haven’t found an extension not working on mine yet I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games on my browser so no opinion on those statements

              • qfjp@lemmy.oneEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                They only mention “open extension ecosystem”

                • The title: “Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release”
                • End of the first paragraph: “Here’s everything developers need to know to get their Firefox desktop extensions ready for Android usage and discoverability on AMO…”
                • End of the second paragraph: “so why not start optimizing your desktop extension for mobile-use right away?”

                also I haven’t found an extension not working on mine yet I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games on my browser so no opinion on those statements

                And those were installed from the mozilla addon library? With full support for a mobile interface? And you tried every extension available?

                I have even installed a flash player extension for flash games

                Flash used to be a mobile extension…

    • protput@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Kiwi is a mobile only browser if I’m not mistaken. This article is about DESKTOP extensions working on mobile. Firefox already supported a limited set of (mobile) extensions for a while.

      Edit. Sorry. I stand corrected. Might try kiwi even.

  • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 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.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • kenbw2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        How do I make use of this? I can’t see a way to install them on my Fennec from F Droid

      • kubj31196@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Is there an easy way to migrate from the official app to Fennec? Keeping accounts, extensions and settings?

        • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • gun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

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

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 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@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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

      • time_fo_that@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 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