Summary (from the article):
- Firefox for Android now has third-party extension support, allowing users to customize their browsing experience.
- Mozilla has made over 450 extensions available for Firefox on Android, with more to come in the future.
- While Chrome dominates the mobile browsing market, Firefox aims to stand out by offering extension support on Android.
Thanks the clickbait title really threw me off.
Have been using Firefox on Android for years, it’s pretty good with a decent adblocker.
gosh, I miss the pre-purchase, pre-clickbait Android Police.
Yeah the clickbait is really strong. I wish we could have two titles. The actual article title and the after clickbait title.
Post body can be used for that. It’s just some posters don’t bother.
I wasn’t begging for a clickbait though!
I know it’s bleeding edge and asking a lot in a technical sense but how about letting us set what our homepage actually is? I know in the ~35 years browsers have existed, this has been an elusive feature but if anyone can do it, it is Mozilla.
Tab groups?
All I want is per-site process isolation, dammit
The clickbait headline has made me angry enough I don’t even care what feature they’re talking about. They can get in the bin.
Yeah, some highlight text as body of this post would be beneficial.
We don’t need more browser extensions, we need isolation per site and Gecko based webview to be able to stand up to Chromium based browsers and their unfair monopoly.
cool feature, but how’s Passkeys support on the desktop going?
Poorly. Tried it the other day, zero support outside of Chrome and Edge.
Then again, website support for Passkeys is not doing all that spectacularly either, the best one is still GitHub’s.
They are working on it. They finally introduced full passwordless Webauthn on Linux and Mac about 5 versions ago. This work was part of the preparations for passkeys. It’s coming.
There was a firefox dev who explained a bit about all this somewhere in a comment thread on hacker news but I forgot to favourite or bookmark it :(
So, what extension that is only available now, but wasn’t on mobile before, do you recommend ?
If you’re learning Japanese, then “10ten” is very good. It adds a little “puck” you can use to hover over words and phrases to see their dictionary definitions, readings, etc.
(On desktop, it instead works whenever yoy hover your mouse cursor over a word, but on mobile, that’s not a thing. Either way, it’s easy to turn on/off based on your need.)
Nice for people that need it but I basically only require 2 - 3 extensions for mobile browsing and they were all supported already. There is a lot of overlap and extension redundancy out there. Many people still think they need like 5+ different privacy related extensions, for example, when uBlock Origin can do basically everything (including removing paywalls).
Is there a custom filter for removing paywalls? I use it and it doesn’t do that for me
The extension which is more fully-featured than just a blocklist is now available again: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean-d/
What’s the difference in terms of features?
This is the GitHub page of the extension. It details supported websites and other things
Yeah but I’m asking what the difference is between the extension and adding the extension’s filter list to uBlock. The other person said the extension is “more fully featured” but it doesn’t appear to do much more than circumvent paywalls. It still seems like an unnecessary extension.
To give one example. It puts a link on paywalled Medium.com pages to view the page’s content on another site since a block list will no longer be able to bypass the paywalled content on Medium.com.
