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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.
Took long enough. What the hell was the holdup?
Article says they were paranoid about security issues.
Sadly, some APIs are still not implemented, so extensions interacting with bookmarks for example still won’t work…
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.
And Fennec!
Wtf?? Thanks! Now I wonder what other features are hidden here
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.
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.
They rebuilt the mobile browser, if I’m not mistaken. It’s why the extensions stopped for a long time.
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.
