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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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[–] spikespaz@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kiwi Browser

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[–] callyral@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

What about Kiwi and Iceraven (Iceraven is a Firefox fork which has more extensions)

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've been using the nightly build, using the desktop extensions for a while now. It's SO worth it. In particular, the YouTube "SponsorBlock" is super convenient.

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[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I use Firefox and on my android tablet but I dont on my iphone since apple doesn't allow extensions on third party browsers. Its so annoying

[–] Popsip@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

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

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

Maybe I'll stop using Brave. Sounds cool af

[–] Leminator@lemmy.world 4 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?

[–] jamms@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Firefox on Android used to do this. I switched to Kiwi when they dropped it.

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[–] nortorc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember wanting to try out Firefox on Android but not being able to use it with Tampermonkey which was a real bummer. Better late than never, I guess?

One question on my mind is why it took so long. Is Android a harder platform to make extensions available on or something?

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

It did support extensions until they basically redesigned the app from the ground up a few years back. They said they'd focus on stability first then move on from there.

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