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AlmostDachshund ,
@AlmostDachshund@lemmy.ml avatar

Is there any hope for third party themes as well?

Zerfallen ,

Is there an extension to bring the tab bar back for Android tablets? Otherwise nothing interesting for me.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

No idea how good or bad this is but I saw a link to addons.mozilla.org/…/tablet-ui-for-firefox/ posted somewhere a few days ago and still had a tab open.

miniu ,

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)

millionsofplayers ,

Apple needs to allow other browser engines at this point

Mousepad ,
@Mousepad@burggit.moe avatar

They don’t??

EddieTee77 ,

Nope. Every browser is basically Safari with a different coat of paint on it. It’s very anti competitive and monopolistic if you ask me

Matt ,

It’s very anti competitive and monopolistic if you ask me

I don’t disagree, but while I would love having full Firefox on iOS, the one positive of the current situation is that it is the only thing keeping Google from a complete browser monopoly. Firefox marketshare is insignificant, and without WebKit on iOS devices, Chromium browsers would make up 95% of the browser market. I think that would be worse overall in the long-term than iPhone users being stuck with Safari skins.

jacktherippah ,

I’d use Firefox for Android if it had working per - site process isolation.

Tango ,
@Tango@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve been waiting for this!

RobotToaster ,

About damn time, they should never have disabled it in the first place.

rush ,

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.

CatTrickery ,

I’d be happy with Firefox for Android if it didn’t hang on loading 3/4 of pages. Its been an ongoing bug for years that my partner has also mentioned to be an issue.

WidowsFavoriteSon ,

Wierd.you must have an edge case because thats very uncommon.

CatTrickery ,

We both have a very different setup that are used pretty normally so I doubt it is.

mrvictory1 ,

cries in Firefox on iPad

At least my phone will make use of this.

Molecular0079 ,

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.

mrvictory1 ,

Yes, but how soon? Will it be available in my country? I can’t know.

Molecular0079 ,

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.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t buy Apple products if you don’t agree with their policies.

TheGiantKorean ,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

My body phone is ready.

anon6789 ,

Good to hear! I’ve been using using Kiwi, but it would be great if I can use Firefox. I would think security updates would come out quicker.

sabreW4K3 ,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

The key takeaway from this is that they’re finally rolling out their Web Manifest v3. I’m super excited

RelativeArea0 ,

I hope they would include addon sideloading as well

mawp ,

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

JimBean ,

Hell yeah! I’ve been using desktop extensions in Mull for the last year, but this will mean more extensions are actively developed for Android !!

Firefox is so slick on Android.

supergrizzlybear ,
@supergrizzlybear@pawb.social avatar

You can use desktop extensions in mull?

JimBean ,

Those that work, yeah ;)

Just add a custom addon collection. The most useful one for me so far has been Mozilla’s translation extension, which they’ve adapted to mobile very well. Oh and libredirect, works perfectly even tho it has the desktop UI

ramblinguy ,

You can also do the same with a custom collection on Firefox Nightly: blog.mozilla.org/…/expanded-extension-support-in-…

crowsby ,

Yep, after I found this out I ditched Chrome immediately once they started rolling out Google Search ads that couldn’t be blocked via DNS. Firefox mobile feels a little less smooth than Chrome admittedly, but the ability to add extensions like ublock/darkreader/consent-o-matic make is a no contest in terms of overall user experience.

The one knock is that they took bypass paywalls out of their extension store and the workaround to install it is somewhat cumbersome, so now I’m annoyingly using Kiwi browser for paywalled content and Firefox for everything else. Hopefully this update will make it so I only need one browser again.

JimBean ,

Yes, but no-one should do that if they value stability and security. Nightly is for development, after all!

supergrizzlybear ,
@supergrizzlybear@pawb.social avatar

So you can! That’s awesome, thanks. For anyone who wants to know:

You can create a custom addon collection on addons.mozilla.org

Then to add your custom collection in mull (or ff nightly, I guess) enable debug mode by going to settings > about mull and tapping the logo 5 times. Then go back and under the advanced section you can find “custom add-on collection”

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