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    Awesome. As a recent convert after Google’s acceleration of bullshit this year, I was surprised at the gap between mobile app and browser and frankly had difficulty understanding it. Glad to hear there will be an alignment coming.

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    I’m confused. What the hell am I using on my ff if not extensions? (add ons)

    I’m a little confused now.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      There are only 22 add-ons for the mobile version (2 of which come pre-installed: uBlock and night mode), and they were all hand-picked or made by the devs to be ported. It doesn’t have support for the whole system like on desktop, where there are thousands of add-ons with new ones being added every day.

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    It’s weird, this is presented as new, but I had adblock on Firefox on Android from the start.

    That and flash support were two of the major reasons for using Firefox on Android in the first place. This was back around 2010, when most porn sites still used flash players for video. Then flash died, that was fine. Then at some point Mozilla reduced the available extensions a lot, but at least some adblocker was still available.

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      They only allow a handful of curated extensions on mobile. You’ll have to use the nightly build and jump through some hoops to install arbitrary extensions on mobile (mostly to allow devs to test their extension). Looks like they’ll finally lift the restriction soon.

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        It’s also worked on beta builds for some time now as well. Which is nice since you only get prompted to update every now and then instead of daily.

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        I would say they didn’t finish rebuilding it, for 5 years. They just broke the old browser. Not a cool thing to do honestly.

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      I’ve had ublock origin on Firefox Android for at least a year… And my old Samsung S7 had Firefox with plugins for even longer.

      So confused.

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    Maybe also try making Firefox tablet compatible like almost every other browser.

    Currently it’s just a bloated phone UI on tablet, it’s the one thing stopping me from using as my daily browser on mobile devices.

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      I installed Firefox (Android version) on a Chromebook to see if I could keep 2 browsers with separate profiles and setups.

      The Firefox browser on a Laptop computer looked awful. A narrow phone UI, but stretched really, really wide. It made no attempt at utilizing a wide tablet layout.

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    Sadly, some APIs are still not implemented, so extensions interacting with bookmarks for example still won’t work…

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    Firefox nightly on android supported desktop extensions for quite some time. It wasn’t that easy to install them, but once I did they worked fine. Maybe a bit more slugish than on pc, but that’s expected given the resources limitations on mobile.

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    Just Mozilla being Mozilla… Taking forever to get impactful stuff like this released or to fix bugs that have been sitting around for years. Yet quick to add features to the browser most of us don’t need.

    I like what Mozilla is doing. But they seem to struggle with their priorities.

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    First they broke it when they’ve rewritten the mobile version from scratch and now they shift the blame on dev. You are only relevant because everything else is Google, Mozilla.