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Firefox on mobile has extension support, I am using it right now?

Eldt 7y ago
The new one has very limited support
enitihas 7y ago
The parent meant Firefox preview, the new version of Firefox on android, which only supports ublock origin as of now. Firefox preview will become the main Firefox browser on android as of now.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  Oh, I thought it's some alpha version of the one I am using. My bad
photon-torpedo 7y ago
Not for much longer. Future versions of Firefox Mobile (i.e. what is Firefox Preview now) will, as far as I know, at best have support for the Mozilla "Recommended" extensions, which is only a small fraction (e.g. no Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey).
input_sh 7y ago
It's gonna be replaced during this year with a complete rewrite. Extension support is coming, but at the moment only uBlock Origin is available.
- NikolaeVarius 7y ago
  They released a few more
- Thriptic 7y ago
  So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Why? One of the biggest value adds of Firefox on Android is broad extension support.
  - NikolaeVarius 7y ago
    Only way to make it suck less https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi...
    - TomMarius 7y ago
      It sucks? I switched from Chrome last year and am nothing but happy. Who decided it sucks?
      - zapttt 7y ago
        i'm with you. have been using the fdroid one. firefox android esl 68 + all security patches) with uMatrix extension (but for non-web devs I'd suggest gorhill's uBlock extension instead)... and this made a phone usable. I feel like I am back in the late 90s! in the best way! it's super user friendly, just install the app, install extensions like you do on desktop I type a url or click a link, and what do I get? the content I wanted and nothing else! it's great! using chrome or those fly-by-night browsers I get a dozen dhtml popups and "whitelisted"-by-the-browser dev ads all over the place. not to mention the own browser popups wanting me to translate from languages I know how to read or if I want to login with my google account on random sites. PS: the fdroid ESL version of firefox is called by the internal mozilla project name: fennec.
      - ta1771 7y ago
        Single process for all tabs/sites, no sandboxing, for a start. I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha
    - detaro 7y ago
      That link doesn't seem to address why plugins need to be restricted to a whitelist? (Which might not be the end-goal, but Mozilla is quite cagey about it)
    - solarkraft 7y ago
      That article doesn't explain anything about it. The previous Firefox runs (almost?) all extensions impressively well, with little required optimization.
- 0x38B 7y ago
  I'm using the nightly preview and it has: - uBlock Origin - NoScript Security Suite - Dark Reader - HTTPS Everywhere - Privacy Badger - Search by Image I like the new UI: quick and intuitive. When you open a new tab, you see your most-visited sites, open tabs, and collections. Liking collections, currently have 'Web dev' for my in-progress projects & servers and '{My city}' for local (health) news and other resources. When I tried it a couple months ago, I remember being impressed but put off by missing features - downloads didn't work, etc. But it's looking better, good enough to use daily with Brave as a backup.
  - input_sh 7y ago
    Ah, I'm on Preview stable, looking forward to some of these landing there.

Eldt 7y ago

The new one has very limited support

The parent meant Firefox preview, the new version of Firefox on android, which only supports ublock origin as of now. Firefox preview will become the main Firefox browser on android as of now.

TomMarius 7y ago
Oh, I thought it's some alpha version of the one I am using. My bad

photon-torpedo 7y ago

Not for much longer. Future versions of Firefox Mobile (i.e. what is Firefox Preview now) will, as far as I know, at best have support for the Mozilla "Recommended" extensions, which is only a small fraction (e.g. no Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey).

input_sh 7y ago

It's gonna be replaced during this year with a complete rewrite. Extension support is coming, but at the moment only uBlock Origin is available.

NikolaeVarius 7y ago
They released a few more
Thriptic 7y ago
So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Why? One of the biggest value adds of Firefox on Android is broad extension support.
- NikolaeVarius 7y ago
  Only way to make it suck less https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi...
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    It sucks? I switched from Chrome last year and am nothing but happy. Who decided it sucks?
    - zapttt 7y ago
      i'm with you. have been using the fdroid one. firefox android esl 68 + all security patches) with uMatrix extension (but for non-web devs I'd suggest gorhill's uBlock extension instead)... and this made a phone usable. I feel like I am back in the late 90s! in the best way! it's super user friendly, just install the app, install extensions like you do on desktop I type a url or click a link, and what do I get? the content I wanted and nothing else! it's great! using chrome or those fly-by-night browsers I get a dozen dhtml popups and "whitelisted"-by-the-browser dev ads all over the place. not to mention the own browser popups wanting me to translate from languages I know how to read or if I want to login with my google account on random sites. PS: the fdroid ESL version of firefox is called by the internal mozilla project name: fennec.
    - ta1771 7y ago
      Single process for all tabs/sites, no sandboxing, for a start. I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha
  - detaro 7y ago
    That link doesn't seem to address why plugins need to be restricted to a whitelist? (Which might not be the end-goal, but Mozilla is quite cagey about it)
  - solarkraft 7y ago
    That article doesn't explain anything about it. The previous Firefox runs (almost?) all extensions impressively well, with little required optimization.
0x38B 7y ago
I'm using the nightly preview and it has: - uBlock Origin - NoScript Security Suite - Dark Reader - HTTPS Everywhere - Privacy Badger - Search by Image I like the new UI: quick and intuitive. When you open a new tab, you see your most-visited sites, open tabs, and collections. Liking collections, currently have 'Web dev' for my in-progress projects & servers and '{My city}' for local (health) news and other resources. When I tried it a couple months ago, I remember being impressed but put off by missing features - downloads didn't work, etc. But it's looking better, good enough to use daily with Brave as a backup.
- input_sh 7y ago
  Ah, I'm on Preview stable, looking forward to some of these landing there.