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Their small selection is already insanely helpful for me. I’ve been using firefox mobile for a year now and it’s just as fast as chrome with the additional benefits of:
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darkmode
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adblocking (including youtube!)
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shorter, more sharable links without tracking
and thats all thanks to the extensions that arent available in other mobile browsers unless devs directly integrate them into your app.
Don’t forget the “Video Background Play Fix” add on. That paired with the adblocking makes it where you can watch ad free YouTube while in another app or even with the screen off.
These two together made me disable the YouTube app on my phone. Firefox is just a much better way to view YouTube.
I use Revanced, but keep Firefox Youtube and invidious as backups.
I replaced the YouTube app on my SO’s phone with a Brave Browser YouTube link (Brave includes both features out of the box) because having to sit through ads when they wanted to show me a video was driving me nuts…
I use Firefox because of tamper monkey, buy Brave is my go to easy solution for friends so I don’t have to explain about installing extras.
You dont need tampermonkey for Ublock Origin and Video Background Play Fix. It’s under add-ons when you go to settings.
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The timing couldn’t be better. For me, the only thing missing from Firefox for Android (or, even better, Mull) was a translation feature; otherwise, it was perfect. The lack of translation was the only reason I found myself opening the Chrome app, and I am eagerly looking forward to no longer needing it.
I was once a fervent supporter of Google, but now see it moving towards Apple’s approach. This shift doesn’t feel like the result of malicious intent on the part of Google’s engineers, but rather a change driven by non-technical roles (business, marketing, …) aiming to boost revenue margins. When these roles lead a company’s direction, you can already hear the ticking clock of its fate.
Get “Translate Web Pages (TWP)” Addon for Firefox via custom addons collection! It does love translations of websites just like how the built in translator in chrome does!
TWP is even better than just google translate because it lets you choose between Google, Bing, Yandex, and DeepL translations, if a translation looks sus you can take a look at what the other translation engines say.
At least on PC
Hopefully the RES folks port to mobile, there’s times when Reddit is the only location for a slice of knowledge.
Use RDX. I use it with a redirector extension.
I’ve been enjoying full extension support on Firefox for a good while now, by running the beta version and using a custom extension collection. To be honest, it seems like most extensions just work fine out of the box, at least the ones I’ve tried.
Does this matter for ios?
Maybe. The EU just ruled on Apple Safari, so they may be forced to allow other browsers in their phones.
Bring it.
I like the way that the article opens in Firefox when I click it, so it has bug white gaps between the paragraphs 😂
Just about how many…? Like 6 years too late. FF market share on mobile is like 0.6%.
As if extensions is the reason of Firefox faltering on mobile. Do Chrome and Safari allow extensions on mobile?
Safari does. I think they’re the same as desktop Safari but it seems like a different and smaller ecosystem from the Chrome/FF one and the good ones tend to cost a dollar or two (or six). Still, I have an ad-blocker, a dark mode one, a Userscripts one, one to get rid of AMP links, and a few others.
Oh nice! I didn’t know.
Safari actually has a pretty good extension system (for mobile)
It’s a bunch of things. Not having extensions however removed a potentially differentiating feature, which certainly didn’t help.
But mobile Firefox does have extensions. It’s just not a big number.
I just counted, it’s 22… and there a lot of redundancy in there. So I’d say that FF on mobile had extensions technically. Want something as extreme as RES or some video downloader? You have with fiddle with nightly… which barely any average user would.
True, and that’s why they are opening it up.
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