gaulPrepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
EeeDawg101Woah that’s awesome. So ublock origin on android Firefox? Freaking nice!
IgnacioMuBlock on Firefox mobile has been out for a while now
*Had to use the nightly build version, though
It’s the thing I miss most after intentionally going to ‘that other platform’ for dev reasons, though Brave Browser is a decent stand-in for FF+uBlock on this side of the walled garden.
°˖✧ ipha ✧˖°uBlock has been available on stable for a long time now.
Really!? Well, shit, I hate life more, then.
eroc1990What is new, it seems, is the general availability of a lot more extensions. Right now it’s just a handful of curated ones. You can’t just go to addons and expect to install anything at the moment.
That said… RES on mobile? I’m intrigued to find out how well that works.
Yeah, that’s where nightly was when I still had it, with only a few, if important, extensions available.
But RES and old.reddit were no-go and made me sad. At least I had RIF (RIP IN PEACE).
Either way, glad to see it’s getting wider support for all. I wish it worked that way in fruitymobileland, but at least there is a browser (Orion) that actually supports both FF and Chrome extensions that tries to make up for things.
It’s really sad after all these years people still don’t know about the addon work around.
You could have been using desktop add-ons on mobile this whole time.
To be fair I never dug around for a solution for that.
You can find out right now. I’ve been using it along with old.reddit redirect for years on mobile.
The truth is Firefox mobile has been able to run desktop add-ons this whole time. All that happened was they had to restrict availability of add-ons from the addon store to only the handful that they had verified work without issues. All the other add-ons could still work if they were maintained, but Mozilla couldn’t guarantee they’d work yet, so they wouldn’t let you install them directly like the other add-ons.
But if you used Firefox Nightly, there was a built in work around that would let you use any desktop addon on mobile. Some don’t work, some do. Old.reddit redirect and RES both work.
Years
I’m not on nightly and have been using ublock and a few other extensions. It’s nothing new afaik.
From the beginning. Even when Firefox had to restrict the mobile add-ons a few years ago, uBlock was one of the few that remained.
HolzkohlenuBlock, Dark Reader, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, DecentralEyes. They have all been there the whole time
Even tapermonkey!
Or violentmonkey for a FOSS alternative.
Huh, I thought it was FOSS… I’ll check that out.
I can’t get any tamper monkey scripts to actually work except for YouTube scripts.
I use it since maybe a year now on Android and it’s amazing.
The toggeling of the overlay and weird zap objects/overlays function takes some getting used too but otherwise its just like on the Desktop.
Yeah, the way Firefox manages addon interfaces on mobile makes it really unintuitive to use ublock’s tools, but you can absolutely use them with somr practice and patience. Personal filters makes so many websites usable.
you can use ublock origin on android firefox right now… been using it for years.
this is huge!
Will this also affect IceRaven browser, a fork of Firefox mobile?
IceRaven is a close fork, so it will almost certainly apply to IceRaven, too (maybe with a short delay).
Loading extensions from files, I would not assume to work. Even their current developer workflow requires using an AMO collection.
Someone could reupload Bypass Paywall Clean to AMO. As I understand from quick research, the DMCA takedown request was not challenged by the dev. Or you can use another paywall removal extension.
You can add the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter lists to uBlock Origin and the user scripts to TamperMonkey to get, as I understand it, almost all the basic functionality of the extension.
Is there any link I should use to follow to be able to do this?
LollerCorleoneThis is the filter link you need to add to ublock for bypass paywall clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt
And here is the repo if you want other options https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
Why are you downvoted? It’s not correct?
I have been haunted by a bunch downvote bots recently that mass downvotes my post when I post on certain tech related communities on lemmy. I am not sure why this is happening. Since I am on kbin, I can't see the downvotes or get affected by it anyway unless I take the effort to view the post through Lemmy though.
You can already install it using a old version of Firefox beta or fennec and then update the choose browser to the last version.
IceRaven, a Firefox mobile fork, shares Firefox’s updates. It supports loading extensions locally, like Bypass Paywall Clean, enhancing its functionality for users. Recently, I came across sfrmoncompte.com, a site that offers a treasure trove of information and resources. It’s like finding a hidden gem that you can’t wait to share with others.
Could be very very good shit. Shame I’m not using android anymore
52fightersDoes this mean that I'll be able to get temporary containers on Firefox Android?
That extension requires rather deep integration into the UI, which I don’t think is possible for Android extensions. So, I doubt, it will become available…
bbhttSome parts of the container API is not available on Android unfortunately. No container extension will work until that is fixed.
I wonder if hidden tabs are. It’s not that I want tab groups on mobile, but it’d be interesting to see attempts, specially with how absolute dogshit grouped tabs are on mobile chrome, specially if there’s pop ups involved (an inversion from desktop chrome, which has the best grouped tabs)
That's the reason why I use Firefox on Android.
kratoz29That’s the reason why I might start to use FF again (tbh at this point I don’t see why to use anything else).
I am using Firefox as well and I don’t think I’d go back to Chrome, but I wish it supported progressive web apps a bit better!
Jules 🍺They said PWA. Chrome and Chrome like browsers can install pwa as native apps, aka webapks on your android. Firefox can only add a shortcut where sites can run full screen.
WebAPKs on Android
When the user adds your Progressive Web App to their home screen on Android, Chrome automatically generates an APK for you, which we sometimes call a WebAPK. Being installed via an APK makes it possible for your app to show up in the app launcher, in Android's app settings and to register a set of intent filters.
Is there even an adblocker for chrome on mobile?
Not for chrome, but there are forks that have adblocking capabilities.
Kiwi is a browser that lets you install extensions, so you can install an ad blocker
Or Brave, that includes it as a browser feature. But Brave has had many weird features and taken many weird decisions, so people recommend just moving to Firefox
Well, on a second thought I guess they don’t have much tabs control, so that is a bit of a bummer.
Fr. Chrome on android is much more stable in my experience. But Firefox still wins due to adblock + sweet sweet dark mode.
Okay, whoop.
Let me fucking download my files to where I want to on mobile, goddamnit.
Android has locked down free access to storage in recent versions. Blame Google.
That’s 100% Google’s fault. Firefox has no control on over this, Android prevents apps from accessing the full file system now.
valpackettThere’s no need to access the full file system to download to wherever the user wants. In fact the user might not want to use the local file system, but instead a “cloud” storage provider app!
The Storage Access Framework is built precisely for this.
nik0Nice!!!
YⓄ乙 Can someone TLDR please ?
BaroqueInMindAre you a developer? If not then the only thing you need to know is that Mozilla is essentially announcing enabling desktop extensions to be able to work on mobile
𝐘Ⓞz҉Ah thanks.
Sick! I just switched to Firefox nightly so I can use ublacklist on mobile.
What’s that?
–Phase–It’s an extension that allows you to blacklist certain websites from appearing in search results. So if you wanna prevent for instance facebook links from showing up in search results, uBlacklist can make that possible.
0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6Oh good, now I can do an image search without completely useless Pinterest results
And it’s available on Firefox mobile (soon) and it’s freaking amazing on mobile.
I’ve used Firefox Nightly for ages, and admittedly, it sometimes lets a crashing bug through. But it was worth it for stuff like old.reddit redirect on tablet, lol. I just don’t want the stupid “USE OUR APP” notifications while searching.