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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman to c/technology
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[–] Amilo159 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

[–] Darth_Vader__ 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Android firefox is ok now. Moreover now it supports add ons too and there are some good add ons there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a very small number of add-ons, but one of them is uBlock Origin, and that's all I really want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can just change the list of supported add-ons to whatever you like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if you tie your browser with an account at Mozilla. No way to do it without an account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only if you need your list. Otherwise you can just switch the list I'd to one including your extensions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where can I change this list?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the settings under "custom add-on list". You might need to enter dev mode, which you do by tapping the Firefox logo in the about menu 5 times (you get a toast with your progress).

After that you enter the userID ND the collection name in the popup and confirm.

Details:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extended-add-support

And a reddit comment with a list you can use:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/j1ta1s/comment/g720d72/

[–] Darth_Vader__ 7 points 1 year ago

If firefox gets more popular then maybe more add ons can appear..

at least they support add ons like CHROME

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What’s wrong with Firefox on iOS? I realise it’s WebKit with a Firefox skin, but it seems to work well enough.

[–] Amilo159 -4 points 1 year ago

User interface is poor. Cannot customise the gui at all so I feel like it's a downgrade over Samsung browser that also supports ad blocks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It works pretty well for me, but I use Firefox nightly.