Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
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I guess it is one of the more complex to port from a technical point of view. Hopefully soon!
Other's seem to go out of their way to embed sponsor reads within the video at random times.
It can optionally hide shorts, comments, watermarks, and other stuff. It can remember the playback speed and enable speeds higher than 2X. It basically fixes everything but the recommendation algorithm.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revance...
Other times it's a video I've seen before and I'm just trying to find a particular spot - then I might go as high to 3x.
I'm not sure about audio boosting, but I know it does let you customize the speeds in the playback list. I got rid of everything below 1x, and you could add your 1.1/1.2/1.3 options.
It is, however, in Iceraven's list: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123...
(And, of course, it works great in ReVanced or NewPipe x SponsorBlock.)
Now, if only there was a powerful computer device with the physical dimensions of my Kobo Libra 2. Almost got a Lenovo Legion Go but it's 3x the weight of my reader - more than 600 grams without the joypads
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It worked great! But, I'm glad I don't need to use it anymore.
Is this the trick you're talking about?
Shameless plug, Repibox is a recipe extension that immediately pulls the recipe into a modal on top of the page. You can add it to Firefox by going to Repibox.com
I guess:
"Firefox for Android voluntary broke add-on support in 2020 and has now fixed it after 3 years of users and developers complaining about it"
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
I mean as a user I get the rationale for the rewrite and one step back two steps forward but it genuinely feels like Mozilla has prioritized just about everything else instead of this.
It's not about teaching anyone anything. All I want is a browser that supports any addons I want. Mozilla decided they didn't want to provide what I want when they blacklisted most addons and required their wierd signing requirements, so I simply switched to a browser that does.
You're free, of course, to be a patron of whatever software you want. However, they only instituted "weird" signing requirements to help dramatically slow down or stop the influx of addons that were maliciously changing browser settings among other hazards. If that doesn't sound like some good utility to you, then I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. Online security has never been a priority for a large subset of internet users.
In any case, most people tend choose functionality over security if they have to choose and, in this case, it seems like we did.
Cheers.
Also, I fail to see how the existence of a malicious extension PoC translates "Chrome definitely has a problem with malicious browser extensions". I'm sure you're right about malicious actors not overlooking extensions, yet here we are with virtually everyone using chrome and no wide-spread security issues to speak of. Proofs and pudding.
Not because of add-ons obviously but because of the Mozilla foundation mass layoffs with the MDN, Servo, Rust team, etc. The contrast of C-levels (of an open-source _foundation_) like Mitchell raking in +3M a year and the layoffs felt too hypocritical. The suits have taken over and they lost their mission.
I will not be donating to them until there is a clear way to make donations specifically for Developer payroll only.
Restricting add-ons in this way seems more like a Google move than a Mozilla one.
If a developer marks their addon as compatible with the mobile version, you can install it. Mozilla isn't adding any of these addons themselves, it's all up to the devs now.
I still don't understand why they don't do what kiwi does. It supports all the chrome addons without modification.
In Europe, by law, each time you open a page you get a weird and annoying popup saying something like: "the website uses cookies, are you ok with that?". The extension just nix the nonsense popup.
It was released as a preview in 2019 and has barely made appreciable strides since.
The team is so semi-competent that they have added and broken and disabled pull to refresh more than once now.
Add-ons have been on life support ever since they were introduced.
If I fullscreen a video, my browser minimizes.
Battery usage is abysmal.
Speed is noticably worse than any chromium fork.
Of course, I don't think I could do any better, but I'm not producing a browser, nor have I fired any engineers despite not having particularly reknown engineering chops as a company in recent memory.
This software is just terrible, especially because this failure isn't in a vacuum, it actually cements chromium as a monopoly of engineering competence.
But if you kill them, by zapping with ublock or using another extension or bookmarklet, the performance is instantly a lot closer to something like the Chrome or Brave apps
It has been like this since Fenix launched, so at this point it makes me need to assume that it's some sort of fundamental limitation of their architecture. It is rather unfortunate.
The rest of the debate is just about the UX, really.
The latest incarnation... well it can choke on YouTube videos once in a while and you have to force kill it. And it does eat more battery than Chromium browsers.
But the current state is the first time I've found Firefox mobile version usable as a daily driver.
Maybe it's just phones have caught up - I'm on a Pixel 7.
But the point stands: vanilla FF mobile is now good-enough-for-me, and extensions make it wonderful.
Nothing else is really relevant to me on mobile.
What I really want is to use chrome for PWAs and something that is essentially Firefox reader mode for actual web documents.
It was the easiest browser option with adblock, which pretty much sealed the deal for me
I have not tested battery life, but it is acceptable to me, as is most of the performance.
I can confirm the full-screen video bug - I just tried watching a video on the New York Times site, and full-screening with Firefox is completely hosed, where Chrome works fine. I have Decentraleyes and uBlock installed as addons.
I have used add-ons with it for the past years. The ones you really need, like uBlock Origin, have always been there.
My experience is decidedly the opposite, and the single reason for that is uBlock Origin. The principal way to make websites load fast is to make them load less garbage. Fast browser engine is nice but not even close to proper content blocking (e.g. uBlock's JS defusers or DOM rules).
But extension capability is great overall. For example, you don't like how HN styles downvoted comments in unreadable light grey on light grey? Just add a user CSS extension and use this filter:
.c5a, .c73, .c82, .c88, .c9c, .cae, .cbe, .cce, .cdd { color: #222; font-style: italic; }I have no idea what you are talking about. I've been using Firefox and Firefox Focus for years and if anything it's always been fast and ultra reliable.
Around the same time as the extensions support was disabled, they removed a lot of features I liked and added some features and UI changes that still annoy me. It's a bit sad.
Man I have this, I have a very popular phone model, how can this not be fixed in years.