Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

rdeets , 10 months ago

I don’t want to, but I’m thinking about switching to FF since Edge and Chrome have been having freezing issues for the past six months or so.

Native ad blocking via extension would definitely help nudge me over. Especially since I’m considering getting a OnePlus Open and a web browser would be a vital part of the Foldable experience.

Rush , 10 months ago

uBlock Origin (one of the best ad- and tracker blockers) already works, but soon support will FINALLY be expanded to ALL extensions on android, with first-party support by Mozilla.

GatoB , 10 months ago

I use the desktop version and it works really good but the phone version is soo slow. You have to wait for the UI elements to load each time an UI element appears so something that would take 200ms takes 2 seconds because it takes so long

PlantJam , 10 months ago

Was that recent? I use Firefox exclusively and haven’t had those issues.

GatoB , 10 months ago

Yes, it used to work fine but since pages sometimes bugged I updated and it fixed some bugs but added others and slow UI is one of them, can you share a video of you moving between pages UI? I dont know if it is just me but it is anoyingly slow. I love the desktop version and it works perfectly but the phone one have to work with that

M_Reimer , 10 months ago

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.

bappity , 10 months ago

awesome! I hope they’ll add a search bar to the addons list when this is fully released

counselwolf , 10 months ago

What are good Firefox extensions? I’ve only used ublock origin (which is already available)

kakes , 10 months ago

Sponsorblock is another great one (provided it works on mobile).

Overspark , 10 months ago

Consent-o-matic automatically answers cookie pop-ups for you, so saves heaps of time. It also works fine on mobile if you load it into Firefox nightly with a custom collection.

counselwolf , 10 months ago

does it accept all cookies or only necessary cookies?

Overspark , 10 months ago

By default it refuses everything, you can set it to accept different kinds of cookies though. I set it to accept functional cookies for example.

counselwolf , 10 months ago

I’ll try that out, thanks

JustZ , 10 months ago

Im far too busy, my time is much too valuable to answer cookie consents. Let me just download nightly builds and push them to my phone every day.

AlmightySnoo , 10 months ago

Stylus is really cool for CSS overrides

counselwolf , 10 months ago

Can you give an example of when CSS override would be useful?

jayandp , 10 months ago

Changing the look of a website. Remove elements you don’t like while formatting the rest in a more pleasant style.

AlmightySnoo , 10 months ago

In addition to what jayandp said, it can also be useful to correct some “bugs” if you know your way around CSS. For example something I really hate about the default Lemmy themes is that they stretch the videos to the full width of the page, so I made a CSS override to fix that:

<span style="color:#323232;">video {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    width: 25vw !important;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

PaulTheCarman , 10 months ago

This is great news. I switched completely to Firefox earlier this year. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was Chrome killing Manifest V2, which would break a lot of adblockers. Now that Mozilla is adding full extension support for mobile? I’m glad I switched.

Ogygus , 10 months ago

Use AdAway

AlmightySnoo , 10 months ago

Firefox will become the only major Android browser to support an open extension ecosystem

Shots fired! Mozilla is serious about taking Chrome’s crown, especially after Google’s shameful WEI.

MargotRobbie , 10 months ago

But Chrome on Android has never supported extension, if I remembered correctly.

AlmightySnoo , 10 months ago

Yup, the idea here is that Firefox will also support many desktop extensions in addition to the small subset it supports right now (which is already cool since it includes uBlock Origin) and Mozilla is making that a big selling point (that and being a refuge from Google’s WEI).