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At least 200+ desktop extensions to be available on Firefox Android in December

blog.mozilla.org blog.mozilla.org | 504: Gateway time-out

Quotes from the blog post:

We’re taking a steady approach to opening up the mobile extension ecosystem to ensure Firefox for Android maintains strong performance standards while a vast new array of extensions are utilized for the first time in a mobile environment. If testing continues to progress well, we anticipate unveiling a fully open Firefox for Android extension ecosystem sometime in December.

We anticipate strong interest from users excited to explore all the new ways they can customize Firefox for Android. Current trends indicate we’ll have at least 200+ new Firefox for Android extensions on AMO when open availability debuts in December. And while a couple hundred extensions is more variety than you’ll find on any other mobile browser, it is significantly fewer than the nearly 40,000 desktop Firefox extensions on AMO. So the opportunity for heightened discoverability with new users may be intriguing to some developers.

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36 comments

I've really enjoyed having Firefox and Ublock on my phone. It's so nice :) I'm hoping for augmented Steam and Unpinterested extensions to get added too.

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About fucking time. It would be nice to have Old Reddit Redirect, so I don't have to put up with that crappy redesign whenever I need to Google something.

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- old.reddit.com days' are coming to an end. You can't really squeeze the last drop of ad revenue on the old UI.
  
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  Shame because the new UI is objectively shit. Autoplaying videos, less dense UI and worst of all, RES works best with old UI. I didn't need to touch my mouse to navigate Reddit all these years thanks to RES. Now, thanks to Spez, he has broken something that didn't need to be fixed.
  
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  Any ETA on when the old UI will be retired?
  
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  I'm guessing I'm not alone in this but the redesign + API restrictions are why I'm here on Lemmy
  
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Nice! Looks like it's time to switch to Firefox, I've been using Chrome for close to a decade since it integrates well with Android.

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- Made the switch a year ago. Works like a charm. Ad-less mobile browsing is a blessing
  
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Unless they drastically open up the browser, this is nothing new.

Its simply "not an antifeature" anymore. Currently Firefox on Android has a veeeery small extension set.

This is already possible, using a custom Addon Collection. Check out mine, it includes everything you should need.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/collections/17446767/Fenix-Addons/

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- Hooray, it includes SingleFile!
  
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  Of course XD
  
  Yo a few days ago I had the urge to look at every single damn addon from Iceravens messie collection... its a total mess full of addons that dont work for sure, and some weird ones you should just ignore like Honey.
  
  Wrote a biiig issue report that day.
  
  But I actually found some nice ones, they are at the top, like this autoscroll thing.
  
  I actually went from "nothing changing my UA" to webGL randomization, canvas randomization and UA randomization. I am pretty sure most sites use that to track, so its best to randomize everything.
  
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- Can you add ublock origen to it?
  
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  It is. Since the beginning
  
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Hoping I can ditch Iceraven then. Not because there's anything wrong with it, really, but because it's a pain to keep updated.

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- Use Obatanium to update GitHub apks. You can add other sources too.
  
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  I do these days. It's a great thing to have, but I would like it to be a bit easier to use.
  
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Firefox on Android is so underrated, it's practically the perfect browser for me.

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- Agreed. Although there is a bug where the current tab won't respond to any input (such as refreshing or new url entry) and you need to close the tab... it hasn't yet been annoying enough to open a new issue though...
  
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  I uninstalled it because of this bug. Just kept occurring again and again on two separate phones to the point it was totally useless. I hope they fix it.
  
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- Too bad it slow as molasses on my older phone, while Cromite is a snappy endeavor.
  
  I would prefer Firefox than chromium on phone as well, but it's just a bad experience.
  
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I have Firefox as my main browser on Android, but I still use the Google app for certain searches/news/weather, but it opens the articles in chrome. Anyone know a good alternative to the Google app that uses Firefox?

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- @R00bot @AlmightySnoo You can configure the Google app to open links in Firefox (or whatever browser is configured as default)
  
  Find this control in the Google apps Settings and turn it off
  
  (You may also need to set Firefox as the default browser on the Android settings, if you have not already find do)
  
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  Oh nice. Thanks. I looked in the settings before but must've missed that one. Much better now opening articles without being assaulted with ads.
  
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  you can also use linksheet to get a prompt or set a default
  
  https://github.com/1fexd/LinkSheet
  
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This is great, though I really wish they would finally prioritize supporting site isolation and enabling isolated process on Android.

A big part of why a lot of us use add-ons is for privacy and security, but even with more robust extension support, it still won't be as secure as Chromium-based alternatives on mobile until they address that.

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So what's everyone's favorite addon besides ublock?

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- DarkReader
  
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- Decentraleyes
  
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- Tampermonkey
  LibRedirect
  Sponsorblock
  
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- Stylus to apply your own CSS overrides to certain websites. Also DownThemAll as a download manager and to download stuff on a webpage based on filename patterns.
  
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I installed Firefox the other day but small at it might be the lack of immersive mode (aka hide the status bar on scroll) was a deal breaker for me. After a couple of years using Samsung Internet I got too used to it. Hopefully there will be an extension for this.

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