this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
866 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

59141 readers
4683 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
866
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
115 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] helmet91 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I've never used iOS.)

[–] smolyeet 3 points 11 months ago

Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible

[–] WhyYesZoidberg 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios

[–] helmet91 2 points 11 months ago

Whaaaat? Damn.

Nowadays I tend to feel fed up with Android and switching to iOS crosses my mind sometimes, but the more I hear about iOS, the more I appreciate Android.

Seriously, WTF?! A web browser is a pretty essential tool, I can't believe a real Firefox version cannot be installed.

I guess, my long term solution will be some Android-fork.