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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq

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[–] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe I'll stop using Brave. Sounds cool af

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Been using Iceraven, although it only supports a handful of extensions such as dark reader and uBlock

[–] Leminator@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This sounds huge! This may be a dumb question, but: do extensions on mobile require any special security tools that don't already exist?

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Stop lying, Kiwi has been around for so long

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[–] Popsip@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

Awesome, I won’t need to switch to the desktop version just because I’m missing a few extension.

[–] krebstar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But not on ios....How do we get adblocking in ios?

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Firefox on iOS is just safari with a Firefox logo

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

you're buying the wrong phone. this is a limitation imposed only by apple, forcing every browser on iOS to be Safari re-skinned

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll be impressed when they actually allow for the installation of extensions from places other than their addon store like I can on the desktop version. Maybe in another 5 years, if Mozilla lasts that long.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has been for years, no? Or was it mobile-tagged extensions?

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome!

I also hope that someday mobile firefox has tagging functionality like on desktop (and tags are synch-able, like bookmarks)

[–] willy096@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

This guys are just amazing!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Does this mean that the storage API will finally be available on mobile? At the moment this is probably my biggest annoyance since I have to manually transfer allow lists for various extensions across desktop and mobile.

[–] xantiv@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any reason to switch from Fennec?

[–] thecam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wont Feddec support mobile extenions in the future?

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

Don't think so. Fennec has been doing a great job all through, I'll stick to it unless there's any breaking issue in the future.

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