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Mozilla rolls out support for over 450 add-ons for Firefox for Android. Here's how you can install them on your phone.
  • OhmsLawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    11 months ago

    So, aside from the ad block everyone loves and I don’t have the characters to type, what do we recommend?

    • Tibert@jlai.luEnglish
      281·
      11 months ago

      Consent-O-Matic (has to be downloaded from the main website, and not the android sub category)

      And what you wish to have other than that depends on your needs.

      I myself have an extension to unlock Bing AI on Firefox android.

      Google Search Fixer (for when I need a Google service)

      TWP - Translate Web Pages

      And more.

    • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      11 months ago

      Web archives Bypass Paywalls Clean ClearURL View Page Source (I’m seriously surprised it’s not a basic feature.)

    • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      A bit niche, but I love Shinigami Eye. It highlights trans-friendly sites and profiles in green and transphobic ones in red.

        • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          Not only load time, some sites have really bad performance with it, i just stop using the handful i’ve come across.

          Not having dark mode implemented and having trash code is a good reason to stop being used.

    • CupOf@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Simple Gesture. Now i don’t have to go through a ton of menus or aim tiny UI elements for a simple action. I use similar addon on desktop as well.

      • _s10e@feddit.deEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I heared people love worldwide-radio. What’s so cool about it? And why as a browser plugin? This could be a stand-alone app or website.

        • omnomed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          For me It’s music discovery. Trying to find a particular net radio manually throughout the web that fills your criteria of music is obviously hard so this extension makes it easier to browse.

          Other than that I use the browser for work and leisure so I end up browsing alot, since the browser is on most of the time I can turn on the radio and play faster from the extension instead of browsing to the dedicated website or swap to a different app for the same function. You can make the argument that a bookmark would work just as well but you can do it in the add-on too and make a library list of them that you can press the next button to change to a different one.

  • JoumanaKayrouz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    11 months ago

    I switched to Ff on all devices last week and I have no complaints. Other than email, I’m slowly migrating from all Google products.

    • xdr@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1211·
      11 months ago

      This is a stupid argument. I have seen Orion browser support BOTH Firefox and chrome extensions right now so why cant Firefox do own extensions?

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        11 months ago

        Idk why you’re being downvoted. I’ve tried Orion browser and it really does work. I assumed extensions like that would go against Apple’s App Store policies but they’ve seemed to make it works so far.

      • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        I don’t think there’s Firefox on iOS because it would have to be Safari.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    11 months ago

    Writing from a privacy perspective remember, browser add-ons can potentially make it easier to fingerprint or recognize an individual. But still, I can’t help but love this new FF feature.

    • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
      116·
      11 months ago

      what’s wrong with webp? it’s a significantly more efficient file format (like 20% less file size for the same quality) and is supported everywhere by now. if anything, the default should be webp for image types that can be both lossy and losslessly compressed

        • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
          49·
          11 months ago

          I haven’t come across a single image or video editor that doesn’t support webp nowadays. I use paint.net, krita, aseprite, inkscape, ibis paint x, opentoonz, and davinci resolve, plus libreoffice if you count that, they all support importing/exporting and editing webp just as any other image file format. I’m pretty sure GIMP and Photoshop do too but I don’t use them so I can’t say for sure

          I feel like a majority of people have to go out of their way to make webp an inconvenience in the modern day.

          Besides, if it for some reason doesn’t work in a specific situation you need it you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it. But I can guess most people don’t actually face a situation like that.

          • kellyaster@kbin.social
            181·
            11 months ago

            you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it

            Thank you for the suggestion, but that’s not how it works. Changing a file’s extension doesn’t change the file type; it just changes the name.

  • kszeslaw@szmer.infoEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Didn’t they already support all addons a few years ago, and then limited it to the hand-picked ones?

    • Desistance@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Yes. It was restricted since they moved to web extensions. They removed the restrictions on this release.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    When will they fix their mobile version though? As much as I want to use Firefox as much as possible, some websites just refuse to open in mobile Firefox, or not work properly. I have even made a simple website with fixed element on the bottom of the page, and it jumps like crazy when scrolling for whatever reason.

    • zipfelwurster@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I believe it’s because firefox’s UI is placed on the bottom of the screen per default. To account for that, I believe they adjust the viewport’s height to either exclude the bottom of the screen (when the symbol bar is displayed) or include it (when you scroll down and the symbol bar is hidden).

      Because they use a slide-out animation based on scrolling within the web page, the viewport changes a million times in height and causes elements fixed to the bottom of the viewport to jump and adjust a lot, causing weird behavior. And nobody tests for that.

      All of thse are my assumptions by the way, please test for yourself, I might well be wrong.

      If it really bothers you, try placing the symbol bar above and see if it works. It’s in the settings.

      • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        My UI was actually on the top, and by changing settings it looks like it’s actually other way around. When UI is on the bottom the fixed element on page moves semi-smoothly (there is still a gap during animation), but when UI is on the top it is fucked up completely. When scrolling down the fixed element also scrolls down for a bit before appearing where it should be, and when scrolling up the reverse happens. So it looks like they didn’t account for that users actually use UI on the top and that it can affect fixed elements on the bottom of the page or it’s just bugged because they don’t test their stuff. I guess I need to send a bug report.

        Edit: This bug seems to be at least 3 years old: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/16264

        Edit 2: There’s actually a (I think) relevant issue on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797964

        • zipfelwurster@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Ah, interesting. Well, if you create a bug report, post the link here and I’ll vote it up for visibility :)

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Now, when will Firefox be on the F-Droid Store? (By Mozilla, no one else)