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A little while back Mozilla put out a post ushering addon developers to prep their addons but I haven't heard anything else since, I don't wanna update to early and loose everything I already got

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, they only announced plans to work together with devs to make the transition to mobile easier. It wasn't a "all addons will work on Firefox android" announcement. Hopefully most popular addons transition

[–] pory 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything I personally use works on the beta version through the collection method.

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

Yup same. Here's my collection in case it's useful for anyone else:

17976906

android13oneui5-1

[–] Bobito -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

on mobile i use brave because its the only app on ios that will background play youtube com videos without a fuss while also removing video player ads (among the rest).

if firefox allowed a plugin, or just supported this feature outright, i would have 0 reason not to use firefox on all of my devices.

i wish theyd stop sleeping on users like me.

e: hate me all you want for it, im still right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks a ton, never knew this worked

[–] Bobito 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no problem! it may act like other browsers before you enable background play in the browsers options menu.

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

I found that, awesome! Brave now sits on my phone for the sole purpose of youtube.

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

Why use brave and not something like Newpipe or Libretube?

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

not available on iOS

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

Then just install LibreTube or Newpipe lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On mobile I use Firefox to accomplish the same thing you just mentioned

Edit: Video Background Play Fix + ublock

[–] Bobito 3 points 1 year ago

to my knowledge plugins only exist for android, as i said im on ios so brave is the only option without sideloading or running old firmware for jailbreak.

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

Doesn't Yattee do this also?

[–] Bobito 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ive never heard of it, i looked at it a little and it seems to be more of a self host thing, which is a potential nightmare for a casual users sanity and security. feel free to clarify if im mistaken.

brave blocks ads IN and out of the (mobile web) yt video player, and plays video in the background(lockscreen) with no setup at all out of the box.

to my knowledge there is not a single other first party app on the ios app store that does this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox isnt allowed to have addons, that could make the user have free choice.

[–] Bobito 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what? im pretty sure thats apples doing as android and desktop has plugins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I barely understood what your saying, but. I have checked it, no addons on browsers other than safari.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you create an addon collection, you can install any addon already... Its fucking ridiculous that Mozilla did this though and its a pain in the ass to setup

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

Can you please share the steps on how to create add-on collection ? I am using android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

All is a very large expectation. Best you get is all that Dev.s continue to support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had add-ons on my mobile Firefox for a while now. I dunno what everyone is talking about.

Is ublock a weird addon or something?

[–] eruchitanda 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should have limited access to addons on stable Firefox.

On Firefox Beta/Nightly/Mull/Fennec, you can enable 'Custom Add-on Collection'.

[–] eruchitanda 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Iceraven the developer already set it up for you.

[–] eruchitanda 2 points 1 year ago

To enable it, go to settings, about <browser-name>, tap the logo 3(?) times, and add your own collection.

Or add Iceraven collection, with 16201230 on the 'Collection owner (User ID)' field, and What-I-want-on-Fenix on the 'Collection name'.

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

Is ublock a weird addon or something?

Yep. So far only a few officially blessed addons have been supported: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/4757633/7dfae8669acc4312a65e8ba5553036/

I think Mozilla was even going through and filling out the extension APIs on mobile based on what the extensions they wanted to support the most actually needed.

AFAIU, they're now getting ready to open it up more broadly.

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

Just use Iceraven. Addons work great on it. Except for themes for some reason.