The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to explore new creative possibilities for mobile browser customization.
What are some of your favorite new Firefox for Android extensions?
DeArrow, Consent-O-Matic and uBlock are ESSENTIAL.
Consent-O-Matic
If you enable all of the u block filters I think it’ll hide all the consent banners.
Flaming hot take that’s probably gonna get me downvoted to hell: releasing a new version of Firefox on mobile before there was a high level of extension compatibility killed a lot of the momentum it had going for it.
I know that maintaining two separate codebases is a huge challenge, but having the power of all desktop extensions on mobile was a pretty big draw and being told that only a small fraction of them work probably turned off a lot of people. I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.
Sandboxing also still sucks even after the rewrite, (still no Fission!) which is unacceptable in today’s day and age. I say all this as a Firefox diehard on all platforms, but I’m tired of people acting like it’s a magic bullet to kill Chrome. It still has a lot of problems, including its resource usage. I’m hoping Servo takes off soon, because that’s what made Firefox so fast on desktop even though only a fraction of it was implemented.
/rejerk So glad my furry porn website userscripts work again!
bro they had uBlock tho
I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.
They kind of did that, fenix was under testing for a long time. Just the add-on wasn’t implemented
uBlock Origin is a must. Then Stylus with a global-dark userstyle. Very light on resource than Darkreader.
Hey Everyone, what are your favourite extensions (either already using or that you are excited to be able to use) and also whats a great example of a website that is most noticeably improved for each that extension?
Dark reader, ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background video play fix. This mostly improves YouTube.
Thanks for saying! I found an alt you tube app so i rarely use youtube in browser, because its so bad. Maybe i will have to see what its like with those
The main issue I’ve experienced is the video will go to like 15fps. Toggling to another resolution and back clears it up tho.
If you are self hosting front end alternatives like teddit or nitter, libredirect is a great tool. Now, even when I browse the internet on my tablet, the extension will redirect to my server instance instead
Not gonna lie… I’m becoming old and dont really know what people on lemmy say when they talk about self hosting. It seems like it’s a much different thing that does stuff in not aware of. Lol
Now wheres the grandkids i dont have to show me how to do this… like i had to show my grandparents how to use their VCR
Lol
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And FuckedupFox deleted my entite session again. Every update it blanks me out. Fucking savages.
