Also from the official announcement (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-on-firefox-for-android-debut-december-14-but-you-can-get-a-sneak-peek-today/ ):
Starting December 14, 2023, extensions marked as Android compatible on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) will be openly available to Firefox for Android users.
“We’ve been so impressed with developer enthusiasm and preparation,” said Giorgio Natili, Firefox Director of Engineering. “Just a few weeks ago it looked like we might have a couple hundred Android extensions for launch, but now we can safely say AMO will have 400+ new Firefox for Android extensions available on December 14. We couldn’t be more thankful to our developer community for embracing this exciting moment.”
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I don’t get how the EU is not in arms about this. How is Apple able to get away with offering various browsers in the Store, when in the End they all are the Safari-Backend and therefore do not allow for competition in this ecosystem? How can a competitor stand out with a remarkable/better product, when he is not allowed to use his own engine? Or in this case: Prohibiting user from using Extensions like uBlock? Firefox is only a shell of their original performance when castrated by apples webview engine.
The EU is up in arms and the browser question is going to be handled through the DMA. The legal process has been going on since the summer and it’s hilarious.
Apple argues ‘Look, those Safaris on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, TvOS, WatchOS are TOTALLY DIFFERENT PRODUCTS and none of them have enough users in the EU for you to even think about regulating us, alright? We’re a tiny startup! Will nobody think of the children?!?’ (I paraphrase somewhat)."
lol
And their ads literally say “Same Safari Different Device”.
Ive been waiting for this day ever since Apple announced that you wouldn’t be able to install any software you want on your own piece of hardware. I’m glad that someone has finally started cracking down on this. Just wish it had happened 15 years earlier.
Let me guess. You still bought the iPhone, right?
It helps that Apple doesn’t have such a huge marketshare here.
Are multiaccount containers coming?
THIS PERSON ASKS THE REAL QUESTIONS
Honestly, that was my first hope.
uBlock is already available on Firefox mobile as well as Tampermonkey, I’m not hating but what other extensions should I be excited to try? At the moment that’s all I need to use.
What are you going to install?
Consentomatic is the only other one I can think of, cookie popups are so much worse on mobile
I think there’s a filter for cookie popups in uBlock. I’m still using the I still don’t care about cookies extension tho.
The “annoyances” filters in ublock stop the cookie popups
I don’t want to just block them though, I want to deny cookie use automatically and hide the popup
You haven’t consented to cookies until you click agree, so there shouldn’t be any difference if the website is GDPR compliant.
That’s a pretty big if. I’ve seen sites with banners at the top that say something along the lines of, “by dismissing this banner or continuing to use the site you’re consenting to cookies”
That’s a good point, but in that case I wouldn’t think Consent-O-Matic would be able to do much about it.
This single extension is why I’m excited for it myself.
Midnight Lizard, it’s better than Dark Reader. Skip Redirect is also pretty handy to fast-forward those pesky url shorter page redirections.
What about it is better?
The main benefit is that it’s lightweight and doesn’t have some of the performance issues that Dark Reader has. Also, if has a bunch of different themes (so you can have more color schemes, similar to any modern text editor), finally you can also create your own theme for a particular site, if the built-in themes don’t look good.
Sounds good to me, I’ll give it a try!
I installed it and gave it a whirl. I’m not sure if I’m just doing something wrong, but every time I disable it for a specific website (like with discord or lemmy, since those already have dark themes), I get a popup that says, “Settings application failed. Refresh the page and try again. Midnight Lizard has been updated. Please refresh the page.” It also seems to make the extension popup switch to light theme, which is pretty atrocious lol.
Is there a more updated fork that you use? The last update for Midnight Lizard was ~3 years ago.
The current one works fine for me, haven’t really had any issues. There is an updated fork on Github, but they haven’t made a release yet (and they haven’t changed/fixed anything major yet).
It’s available on Nightly.
I would like to install the bring back youtube dislike extension. Otherwise I’m happy with what I have already
Privacy badger/possum were welcome sights for me personally.
Could you tell me what you do with tampermonkey/greasemonkey?
You can for example restyle old.reddit.com so that it renders nicely on mobile if you don’t want to install an app for that: https://github.com/OctoNezd/oldlander (see the Tampermonkey section)
Ooh, I’ll take a look thanks
I use it to run automation on a website where there’s lots of pointing and clicking. It’s pretty cool you can do quite a lot with it.
I’ll have to check out the various scripts available. Thanks!
It’s about time. With Google being more and more hostile to AdBlocker on mobile, having Firefox taking an open approach to extension is welcomed.
Ublock origin was long available on Android
Been using Firefox Android for quite some time already. It’s been my perfect browser pretty much. I’m glad more extensions are coming, so others can enjoy it as well, but I’m happy with just Dark Reader + uBlock Origin lol.
I’ve been using extensions on the Nightly build and love it.
What about the missing
about:configfeature ? :/Let’s make an extension for that!
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Still no site isolation right?
This on desktop, Firefox still doesn’t support it on Android.
Are you sure? I can enable it on android just fine, I can’t say if it works though
It seems there is some limited form of isolation, but not as strong as on Chromium-based browsers:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565196
GrapheneOS claims that Firefox bypasses some work done by them and upstream Android but they don’t specify how exactly…
I’d trust them over myself to understand stuff like that.
Good step forward, but this will again flood people with duplicate extensions, useless adblockers, or even harmful ones. And there are quite a lot, even on AMO
I mean… it’s not like the app stores are any better.
but this will again flood people with duplicate extensions, useless adblockers, or even harmful ones. And there are quite a lot, even on AMO
But doesn’t the best “float to the top” and are what is mostly installed though?
Most is not all. Would be great if Mozilla limited Addons like Ghostery
Hope there’s one that can let me control the browser media player by double tap, it’s quite annoying feature that’s lacking
That t-shirt would be cool, but don’t have time to properly test our extension before then
I’m looking forward to December when I’ll have time to work on it. I’ll try to attend some office hours, I didn’t know that was an option
iceraven becoming more pointless
IceIndri, IceIbex, or Rustyraven would have been better name imho
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After the latest update of Iceraven browser (a fork of Firefox Mobile), it now allows to load add-ons offline as well as some browser addons directly from Firefox addons site.
Might help me move to Firefox eventually now that there’s more than just the few from before. Not many things keeping me back compared to before.
I’d like to see LibRedirect ported!
