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Meanwhile in Firefox for Android: absolutely nothing is going on with extensions, because Mozilla disabled nearly all of them.
by nfriedly 4y ago
Meanwhile in Firefox for Android: absolutely nothing is going on with extensions, because Mozilla disabled nearly all of them.
- briffle 4y agoWhich is WAY better than Firefox for IOS.
- Ygg2 4y agoYou mean Firefox branded Safari (not a dig at Mozilla).
- heresaPizza 4y agoIt is Apple’s fault, but the EU’s DMA will force Apple to allow alternative engines. However this raises many doubts: - Will Apple just allow every browser in the App Store or they’ll manage to use side load (which they’ll also be forced to allow) as the only way to comply? (Probably not legal but i expect them to try, would vastly limit an App’s user base as demonstrated by Android). - In the best scenario, wich is Apple letting Mozilla put the full Firefox in the App Store, would they be interested at all to port Gecko to iOS?
- piyh 4y agoYou can use Firefox nightly and enable any that you want. I'd rather use the version of Firefox that doesn't crash more frequently, but that's the trade-off I gotta make at the moment.
- burkaman 4y agoHow? I use Firefox Nightly but I only see the handful of recommended extensions available.
- keyme 4y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/ You can create your own "extension collection", and change the default one used by FF on Android. I use the Fennec build of FF from F-droid (Playstore build doesn't support this).
- necrosmash 4y agoYou can do the same thing with the regular playstore nightly build, works great
- hoppyhoppy2 4y agohttps://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... has the full instructions. In addition to creating an add-on collection you need to go to the About page and tap the Firefox logo 5 times to get the proper menu items.
- burkaman 4y agoAmazing, thanks so much!
- nfriedly 4y agoYeah, I know there's workarounds, but it's a pain in the rear. Currently I'm using Iceraven which is essentially just Firefox with about a thousand extensions enabled instead of 17.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoOkay, but that's not am acceptable trade off. There is zero reason why letting the user use arbitrary extensions and the unstable version should be connected.
- causality0 4y agoThere's still no way to change the User Agent in Firefox Mobile. I switched to Vivaldi because at least there when I tell it to show me the desktop site it shows me the goddamn desktop site.
- anthk 4y agoInstall Iceraven. Get the Mozilla browser installer from F-Droid, and choose Icerave.
- nfriedly 4y agoYep, that's exactly what I did. There's still one or two addons I've come across that weren't enabled, but it's far better than the official Firefox.
- Yaina 4y agoWork on Android extensions got picked up again :) https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/12/15/new-extensions-available-now-on-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/12/15/new-extensions-av...
- nfriedly 4y agoWe'll, that's something. 5 new extensions will bring the total up to 23. I still don't get why they make it so difficult to use any of the thousands of other extensions that are available.