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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Doesn't it already support them ?

edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile

edit2: also they forgot about kiwi, but then it's not a major browser (and is it still maintained ?). still would've been cool if they corrected this

[–] Wild_Mastic 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it's chromium based if remember correctly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

it also whitelists ad blockers from working on some, presumably "partnered", websites.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What? You just install the uBlock Origin extension. Are you saying it overrides domain and element blocks from uBlock?

It's open source so if you could point to the code that does it, that would be great: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

[–] MrFlamey 1 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that. I also got some kind of shady vibes from Kiwi, but never run into any issues with it. Firefox was causing all kinds of problems with pages failing to load so I bailed, but would be glad to return if they fix the bugs and add full extension support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh I didn't know, pretty cool

at least both chromium and Firefox get a version with add ons

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nightly versions and Fennec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mull too

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

This article was weird for me also I have all my extension already installed like bitwarden for passwords and all kind of adblockers and scriptblockers