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le_saucisson_masquay , 2 months ago to technology in Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web

Is Mozilla going to set qwant as default search engine ? Or at least stop setting Google as default ?

If no, then this is just PR crap no one should care about. Not that many people care about Firefox anyway (2% market share nowadays).

anamethatisnt , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

I like that Qwant is based in europe and I like that their search engine works with javascript off.
edit: Only first page, cannot show more results at the bottom. DDG will let me continue looking through results with javascript off and will continue to be my primary search engine.

The results differ between duckduckgo and qwant for me when using english but in my native language the results are very similar.
They’ve said that they reinforce their search results with bing if their own index has few results, so I imagine that’s why.
…qwant.com/…/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-indepen…

Zarxrax , 2 months ago to technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

Never used this search engine before, but I just tried it out for several searches, and it seems to give me what I want. I’ll probably try it out for a while.

Apollo2323 , 5 months ago to linux in 4 reasons to try Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives | The Mozilla Blog

What about for Fedora users?

DangerousInternet , 5 months ago

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Bitrot , 5 months ago

It’s built by the distro and not official from Mozilla. This sometimes has quirks, like invalid or missing api keys resulting in location-based services not working (a plus for some folks).

DangerousInternet , 5 months ago

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jjlinux , 5 months ago

I see you’re also a man of science and common sense.

Petter1 , 5 months ago

That’s why, there is librefox

bdonvr , 5 months ago

Fedora hasn’t been repackaging Firefox in a problematic format

superbirra , 5 months ago

neither did debian, flat/snap/fart shits are an abomination that came with the unavoidable eternal september of mass adopting tech stuff

yokonzo , 6 months ago to android in New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android

Finally!!! I’ve already been testing a bunch out, there are a few ones that arent working quite right but so many more that are

MrFlamey , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

I’ve been using Kiwi browser for ages and it’s had extension support the entire time since I quit using Firefox on mobile. I would still be using Firefox if it hadn’t just kept randomly not loading pages anymore and requiring a restart, because it did at least support the one extension I can’t live without; ublock origin, but the bugs were just too much. I might give Firefox mobile another shot when this new version hits stable release.

Lantern , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Not saying it’s a better implementation, but Safari already does this.

Xander_Meters , 10 months ago

Yeah the article specifies android but the lemmy post generalises it

M_Reimer , 10 months ago to android in Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

I already have a few that I developed and use all the time. It’s just difficult to get them set up currently.

For example I’ve developed a small Add-on which makes Android Firefox open PDF directly, just like the desktop browser does.

laenurd , 10 months ago

If you mean the embedded pdf viewer: that exists in the android Version as well. I think they added it a few weeks ago.

M_Reimer , 10 months ago

Ah. Didn’t know that. But they really limited functionality. I’ll give this a try to see if that’s all I need. Will continue to support my Add-on otherwise.

avidamoeba , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Does this mean that the storage API will finally be available on mobile? At the moment this is probably my biggest annoyance since I have to manually transfer allow lists for various extensions across desktop and mobile.

HulkSmashBurgers , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Awesome!

I also hope that someday mobile firefox has tagging functionality like on desktop (and tags are synch-able, like bookmarks)

brlemworld , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

This is awesome!

thecam , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Now Brave needs to do the same and also create its own extension store

Ubermeisters , 10 months ago

Brave is a ticking clock counting down. They can continue putting off some of the chromium updates that Google is pushing but eventually they are going to go the way of the rest of the chromium forks.

xantiv , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Any reason to switch from Fennec?

thecam , 10 months ago

Wont Feddec support mobile extensions in the future?

viking , 10 months ago

Fennec supports add-ons since forever ago. I’ve been using it for 3+ years with a full set of my desktop add-ons installed.

viking , 10 months ago

Don’t think so. Fennec has been doing a great job all through, I’ll stick to it unless there’s any breaking issue in the future.

ch1cken , 10 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

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Steuls , 10 months ago

It supported them in the Nightly release. This is for the main release

hornedfiend , 10 months ago to technology in Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

That’s nice,but it would have been great to get certificates into Firefox mobile. Those are exclusive to Chrome browsers and that sucks.

just_another_person , 10 months ago

No clue what you mean. Explain.

hornedfiend , 10 months ago

I mean mainly allowing usage of user installed certificates required by mTLS,or at least that’s my use case. My company requires this in order to get access to company resources or better yet governments also require it for their online services.