In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
  • Addison@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    This sounds like great news!

    Firefox is already at the top of my list of preferred browsers on Android, but more extension support has always been on my feature wishlist.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      134·
      1 year ago

      Its current poor extension support is the reason I’ve been using Kiwi Browser, which is a basic Chromium build with full extension support, including loading from local storage.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Same here. I use custom collections on Fennec F-Droid but the inability to properly sideload keeps me on the auto rebased builds of Kiwi Browser. That and support for the black OLED theme and night mode website retheming built in.

        Very glad to see this come to Firefox though! Hopefully they can also get those other bits added in.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          At least when using Kiwi in desktop mode (via Samsung DeX), Kiwi doesn’t fill out passwords for me. There also is no interest in supporting Firefox Sync.

    • atocci@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      It used to be a thing, didn’t it? I remember using any PC browser extension I wanted on my phone at some point and I think it was in Firefox.

      • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it was removed when they rebuilt Firefox Android on a new engine and they deemed the extension system too unreliable at the time.

      • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes, if you run beta/nightly, create an account on their system, and add the extension to a collection there. That’s a lot of hoops to jump through, and it reduces the possible audience for an extension developer to a tiny fraction, so nobody has put any effort into building extensions for Firefox on Android.

    • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They had issues with battery optimization and parity for a while now, but with both those issues being fixed (see: latest nightly) they can finally begin the preparations to rolling out support for ALL extensions :D

    • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They didn’t disable it, they rebuilt the entire browser from scratch to re-base on their current desktop-grade rendering engine, and as a result had to port a lot of things and optimize in regards to android’s battery optimization.

      They’ve finally finished doing that and can now begin the preperation for releasing this to the public.

  • b1tstrem1st0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I’m just hoping for theming to come back to Firefox on Android. Really not into the new UI design either. (T_T)

  • mawp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Heck yeah, have about 5 or 6 extensions I use on the desktop version I wanna use on the mobile version!

  • miniu@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Cool! I’ve been using Firefox Nightly to workaround extension limitations. I’ll be able to switch back to having nicer icon colors xD

    I hope that with this being official support some extensions regain full features on mobile. For example, vimperator cannot open tabs on mobile currently(using it with samsung dex)

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t Apple announce that they were going to remove restrictions on 3rd party browsers on iPhones and iPads? You might be seeing a Gecko based Firefox soon.

        • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I doubt they’d limit it by country, but the question of how soon is very valid. It’s one of the reasons why I don’t use Apple products. Their stranglehold over the ecosystem is highly annoying.