Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14

i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios
- That one is on apple tho.
  Hoping for more EU intervention on those tools.
  
  Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?
  A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google's monopoly in the space.
- Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn't that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.
  But, ios legitimately sucks because it's so restrictive and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.
  
  I used Android and its variants for 10+ years. With each version you had to do more and more battle to somewhat safeguard any shed of privacy. It was exhausting.
  So I bit the bullet and chose the lesser of two evils. Apple > Google.
  Happy so far.
- Don't worry, you guys will soon get sideloading. Hopefully someone ports it to iOS
- Orion supports (some) Firefox extensions. Worth a look imo.
  
  Wow, yes it is!
  Just tested Firefox Focus, Vivaldi, Opera, DuckDuckGo, and Safari with Hyperweb (non-optimized adblock configuration admittedly).
  Orion blocked more ads out of the box than the rest. Impressive. Says it supports some Chrome extensions too. (Didn’t test.)
  Interesting there’s no default search engine. There is an extremely gentle prod towards Kagi by listing all other search engines under “Ad-Supported”.
  
  Yeah I just found this out and sure enough it works.
- What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I've never used iOS.)
  
  Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible
  
  yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios
- It's the same/better as any browser app on Android, and even if that isn't true your comment is still completely pointless and ignores what they said.

massive W firefox
- Don't give them too much credit. They're only returning most of what they took away four years ago.
  
  They're not changing their minds though, that was always the plan?
  To upgrade the browser then slowly reintroduce extensions
  
  deleted
  
  Yeah, where are the themes? Not like they are anything beyond a background change nowadays anyway.
- W for win
  L for loss
  In this slang, W is pronounced dub ( first syllable of "double u")
  
  It's a major win (Massive W) as opposed to a big loss (Huge L)
  
  "Massive W" = Big Win
  It's like saying someone had a really big victory or success. For example, imagine your team winning a game by a lot of points or someone doing really well in a competition. That's when people might talk about a "massive W."

It's here on Nightly. :)
- Say no more fam
  
  It's been here for months :)

Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
- I am also using the same method and hoping the same thing. I doubt we will have to do the song and dance just because it is very much a developer feature test route and they have had extension functionality previously in the regular release.
  Also looking forward to pulling back to stable build.

Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.

Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.
- Yeah that's weird. I end up needing to open a new tab. Does it randomly.
- I have had this happened to me before, I think it has something to do with Android closing the app because of needing more RAM, hence you go back to FF and find out a blank page or sometimes it is not even the correct tab lol, refreshing it won't fix it thus you'd need to manually close, or force close the app to get it in a working state.
  Also, I haven't checked on mobile, but the PS Store website just crashes Firefox entirely in macOS lol, those kind of annoyances weren't present in Chromium based browsers, and I can see this being a huge downside for most people, for me it is worth it because FF is so damn cool.
- I have it happen for webview most times I use it. I ended up using Kiwi Browser instead because of it.
- this happened to me atleast twice a day. it's annoying, and sometimes i ended up using chrome.

Common Firefox W

I honestly can't wait for this to happen so I can finally get Flagfox on my phone. I likenbeing able to see where a website might be hosted, where the server is.

Next, tab stacking.
- And a tablet UI
  
  Yup, my android tablet is the only device I own (unless you count my smart tv) where I don't use Firefox. At least there's kiwi so you can have a tablet interface and still be able to install addons
  
  Is it a different UI than the one that has on the iPad?
  
  Firefox is dead to me until they bring back a proper tablet UI. No tab bar is a deal breaker.
- This is very needed, I think you can get around on desktop with some neat extension, but we are fucked on mobile lol.

What are some good extensions for Firefox? I got the standard ad-block but I don't know what else is out there.
- Ublock origin
  Search by image
  web archives (for when you hit a paywall)
  old reddit redirect (so you don't get stuck on the broken mobile site)
  
  I straight up can't see anything on new Reddit now. just "something went wrong". they're really screwing things up -_-
- Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It's not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.
- Sponsorblock
  
  If you are an Android, why not just use LibreTube?
- Dark Reader. Make sure to set the background color to pure black (#000000)
  Also a password manager like Bitwarden
  
  Why not just download the app for Bitwarden?
- Cookie Autodelete
  Privacy Redirect
  
  Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained. Use LibRedirect instead.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cultivate/
  
  We collect information from you while you are using our Website or Mobile App, or when viewing Cultivate content via our Extension
  No thanks. Fuck apps that track everything I do and sell it to randos
  Edit: here's an open source version that doesn't track and sell your data in an intrusive manner
  
  Looks cool, is it mainly for the US? Also does it show other Amazon sellers or local brick and mortar stores?

Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?
- no i still think it's boring

Do I need to install mobile-specific add-ons or will the ones I have on desktop sync across?
- I don't know if they'll sync, but you'll be able to install all add-ons available on desktop (possibly minus the Firefox themes)
  
  That's not what they announced. Extensions marked as compatible with Android will be available and technical changes to the design of some extensions are recommended to ensure good results.

tbh I didn't even know it was limited because all I use is uBlock origin lmao
Will be fun to see Wappalyzer on mobile
- Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.

Holy shit that's huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.

From screenshots I learned some new extensions to use for desktop and mobile. Thanks @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz

I'm glad to hear it, this will make the mobile version much more usable.

And here's me; bought a Google Pixel and the first thing I did was disable Chrome and install Firefox. Reading this makes it even more worthwhile.
- Now install GrapheneOS and fully delete chrome.

Is there any news about themes getting support back?

I know this is a big thing regarding extension on mobile, is Kiwi browser totally opened to extensions too, or does it only have a selected extensions list available?
Anyway, having this without any hacky thingys is a big win.
- I only use kiwi for a browser extension that has 4000 installs. So I assume kiwi extensions aren't limited to a selection.

Will extensions be usable/ allowed on iPad? Is it... Too ambitious? 😬
- Not until apple allows non-webkit browsers like an operating system would. It's happening but I'm not sure when.
  PS it can only happen because the EU forced them. that's right, your os maker had to be forced by the government to allow basic computing functionality. Apple is shitty.
  
  AppLe iS InNoVaTiVe and ViSiOnAry.
  
  That’s not the reason; Safari and the like still support the WebExtensions API (the same the Firefox uses). They just require extensions to be signed, .app’d, distribute through App Store etc. and maybe only go to Safari which is a lot.
- I wish... I want Dark Reader... It is a crime that most browsers don't bundle it, a bigger crime is that websites don't support this.