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I feel like since mozilla stabbed the mobile community in the back with the current version of firefox's complete addon apocalyptic landscape (yes, that's dramatic), tools like fraidycat just don't translate well to casual use.

I miss having an open mobile browser with capabilities, not whatever firefox is now.

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Fraidycat 2 is going to offer a desktop service you can use from mobile. It won’t be here till later in the year tho, since I’m busy with another project at the moment.

Extensions are nice because of the low effort to install and try out. But your point ain’t wrong.

Kicks, fraidycat is great. Is there text anywhere of the current thoughts on what fraidycat 2: the desktop service may look like?

I've only posted some screenshots of interface improvements:

https://fraidyc.at/blog/the-fraidiest-cat-you've-ever-known/

https://fraidyc.at/blog/peaky-panels

https://fraidyc.at/blog/electronic-drawers-that's-all

In a nutshell, I moved away from Electron (which was a quick prototype anyway) and have built a local service with uWebSockets.js and a systray icon.

Unfortunately for Fraidycat, I had an opportunity to collaborate with someone that I'd really been wanting to work with - so we've spent the last four months working on a blogging tool that's supposed to pair well with Fraidycat.

But I will be back to Fraidycat in the next few months to finish. I appreciate your curiosity very much!

I'm so thankful for your work on this! I've been using rss-bridge to make these things meet in one coherent space, but this looks much more elegant!

I use IceCatMobile, a fork of the Firefox browser, by GNU folks if I'm not mistaken, and it allows installing add-ons.

I thought you could at least get around it by installing firefox nightly and creating custom extension collections.

I recently dug into Thunderbird's add-on apocalypse and "stabbing in the back" is putting it mindly.

Mozilla is a political organisation now. Has been for a few years.

Install kiwi on Android for extension enabled Chromium.

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