Stupid iPhones… I want extensions!
I’d have bought an iPhone a long time ago if it had Firefox. Unfortunate.
It’s still better than chrome or safari on iOS. It has a built in ad blocker. Honestly, I just want that Reddit extension that automatically replaces www with old.
Hoping that when sideloading becomes a thing (thanks to the EU) firefox will develop a full iOS version
Orion browser by Kagi. Closest we have to a Firefox like browsing experience on the iPhone. 🙏
If Google is investing in creating a non-WebKit browser for iOS and given all the heat they are getting for Safari and WebKit, we might see this sooner than later.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/04/google-working-on-browser-that-would-break-rules/
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.
I installed Firefox (Android version) on a Chromebook to see if I could keep 2 browsers with separate profiles and setups.
The Firefox browser on a Laptop computer looked awful. A narrow phone UI, but stretched really, really wide. It made no attempt at utilizing a wide tablet layout.
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.
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.
Not all extensions though. I want to be able to use the User Agent switcher that I use on desktop and when I add that to the extension collection it causes none of the extensions to appear in Firefox mobile.
Awesome. As a recent convert after Google’s acceleration of bullshit this year, I was surprised at the gap between mobile app and browser and frankly had difficulty understanding it. Glad to hear there will be an alignment coming.
