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uBlock Origin is important enough to Mozilla that it's featured prominently on the add-ons pages, it was the first add-on made to work on the new Firefox for An

uBlock Origin is important enough to Mozilla that it's featured prominently on the add-ons pages, it was the first add-on made to work on the new Firefox for Android ("make uBlock work" was its own milestone item), and Mozilla developers have actually contributed design work back to the project. Couple this with the positioning win of having uncrippled blocking compared to Chrome, and you can rest assured that Firefox won't break uBO.

m4rtink 6y ago
Well, that is a single addons and only one of 9 currenly allowed on Android Firefox (!!). All the other addons not on the list - bad luck! Its nice they help an addon or two, but does not help if they neglect the overall addon API & don't even let you install other addons not on their cherry picked list, even if they would work just fine!
- majewsky 6y ago
  > Well, that is a single addons and only one of 9 currenly allowed on Android Firefox (!!). All the other addons not on the list - bad luck! What are you talking about? When I go to the store on Firefox for Android right now, it shows me a list of 11 "featured" extensions (so 9 is already wrong). To test whether that list is exhaustive, I searched for an extension not in the list (Old Reddit Redirect). I successfully installed it and confirmed that it works. So as far as I can see, both of your claims are completely wrong.
  - m4rtink 6y ago
    Are you sure you are running the new Fenix based Firefox (~v79) and not the old Fennec based one (v68) ? They are rolling the update in vawes abd not all countries are yet affected. But you can still try Fenix based Firefox by installing the Beta ir Nigtly versions
    - majewsky 6y ago
      I've had my current set of extensions for at least 6 months.
  - anonymousab 6y ago
    Mozilla has replaced the existing Android app, Fennec, with Fenix. It has not rolled out to all users and regions yet. So some users have yet to get or even see the update. Fenix uses a whitelist-only model for extensions, and had only around 9, last I checked. Based on some github issue comments, it seems like they'd prefer to stay with a whitelist approach for the foreseeable future. If your extensions are important to you, you'll need to disable auto-updates for Firefox in the Play store, and avoid using 'update all' and similar - that is, if your extensions aren't on the list. A version of the old app is available through F-Droid, but it purports to de-mozilla-fy the browser, so I presume sync and other things may not work the same.
    - m4rtink 6y ago
      About the addon whitelist A couple more info points - yep, they indeed have a list of addons and if the addon is not on the list, you just can't run it, full stop. Even if no one actually tried if it is broken. I know this as a fact as someone posted a patched build with a custom list covering many more addons. I installed that and tried two addons from that list I use on desktop Firefox. One did not work (ImTranslator), but the other run just fine (Furiganaize) as on desktop. So Firefox developpers are blocking user from using perfectly working addons as they can't be bothered to add them to their fancy list of allowed addons. About Fennec from F-Droid I have been using it since Mozilla broke the perfectly working Firefox install on my Android tablet with the quarter baked Fenic based release and so far I have not found anything missing even if it is supposedly cleaned up from non-free parts. But I don't use Firefox sync, so I can't comment on that. BTW, Fenix based Firefox build is being worked on for F-Droid as well (they had to cut out all the non-free stuff Mozilla puts into a normal Firefox binary, reportedly a lot more than for Fennec) so if Fenix becomes usable one day, one can get it from a source that will not stealthily replace it by something broken.
  - guywhocodes 6y ago
    Are you kidding me? Do you honestly think it matters if it is 9 or 11 when we lost like a million? And the ability to run our own?
jimmaswell 6y ago
I hope the new one is less of a disappointment. The current one can't even do basic stuff like search through bookmarks/history, has no awareness of various things like tags in bookmarks, overall just still missing such a vast amount of functionality from desktop.

m4rtink 6y ago

Well, that is a single addons and only one of 9 currenly allowed on Android Firefox (!!). All the other addons not on the list - bad luck! Its nice they help an addon or two, but does not help if they neglect the overall addon API & don't even let you install other addons not on their cherry picked list, even if they would work just fine!

majewsky 6y ago
> Well, that is a single addons and only one of 9 currenly allowed on Android Firefox (!!). All the other addons not on the list - bad luck! What are you talking about? When I go to the store on Firefox for Android right now, it shows me a list of 11 "featured" extensions (so 9 is already wrong). To test whether that list is exhaustive, I searched for an extension not in the list (Old Reddit Redirect). I successfully installed it and confirmed that it works. So as far as I can see, both of your claims are completely wrong.
- m4rtink 6y ago
  Are you sure you are running the new Fenix based Firefox (~v79) and not the old Fennec based one (v68) ? They are rolling the update in vawes abd not all countries are yet affected. But you can still try Fenix based Firefox by installing the Beta ir Nigtly versions
  - majewsky 6y ago
    I've had my current set of extensions for at least 6 months.
- anonymousab 6y ago
  Mozilla has replaced the existing Android app, Fennec, with Fenix. It has not rolled out to all users and regions yet. So some users have yet to get or even see the update. Fenix uses a whitelist-only model for extensions, and had only around 9, last I checked. Based on some github issue comments, it seems like they'd prefer to stay with a whitelist approach for the foreseeable future. If your extensions are important to you, you'll need to disable auto-updates for Firefox in the Play store, and avoid using 'update all' and similar - that is, if your extensions aren't on the list. A version of the old app is available through F-Droid, but it purports to de-mozilla-fy the browser, so I presume sync and other things may not work the same.
  - m4rtink 6y ago
    About the addon whitelist A couple more info points - yep, they indeed have a list of addons and if the addon is not on the list, you just can't run it, full stop. Even if no one actually tried if it is broken. I know this as a fact as someone posted a patched build with a custom list covering many more addons. I installed that and tried two addons from that list I use on desktop Firefox. One did not work (ImTranslator), but the other run just fine (Furiganaize) as on desktop. So Firefox developpers are blocking user from using perfectly working addons as they can't be bothered to add them to their fancy list of allowed addons. About Fennec from F-Droid I have been using it since Mozilla broke the perfectly working Firefox install on my Android tablet with the quarter baked Fenic based release and so far I have not found anything missing even if it is supposedly cleaned up from non-free parts. But I don't use Firefox sync, so I can't comment on that. BTW, Fenix based Firefox build is being worked on for F-Droid as well (they had to cut out all the non-free stuff Mozilla puts into a normal Firefox binary, reportedly a lot more than for Fennec) so if Fenix becomes usable one day, one can get it from a source that will not stealthily replace it by something broken.
- guywhocodes 6y ago
  Are you kidding me? Do you honestly think it matters if it is 9 or 11 when we lost like a million? And the ability to run our own?

jimmaswell 6y ago

I hope the new one is less of a disappointment. The current one can't even do basic stuff like search through bookmarks/history, has no awareness of various things like tags in bookmarks, overall just still missing such a vast amount of functionality from desktop.