i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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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.
The alternative would be ... The EU rules that only webkit and Firefox are allowed on iOS...? That's not happening, nor should it. (Fuck Google still though, I agree with your stance there)
Better than apple doing whatever the fuck they want. Imagine Microsoft would have only allowed IE based browsers on windows. We would still be in the IE days, because why put work into something when you can just force people to use it?
At least with chrome it is used because it is a pretty competent engine.
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Yes, equal ground should be given to all. Unfortunately, you're right about Chromium but that doesn't mean we shouldn't play fair.
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.
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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”.
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Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.
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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.
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.
Yeah that's weird. I end up needing to open a new tab. Does it randomly.
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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.
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.
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)
Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It's not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.
Dark Reader. Make sure to set the background color to pure black (#000000)
Also a password manager like Bitwarden
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Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?
Me? I am looking forward to improve performance on Android
no i still think it's boring
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
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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)
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Holy shit that's huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.
I'm glad to hear it, this will make the mobile version much more usable.
From screenshots I learned some new extensions to use for desktop and mobile. Thanks @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz
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.
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