Why are there still no extensions for Chromium on mobile?

zephyr@lemmy.world to Android@lemdro.id – 40 points –

I love Chromium on Android, but not having uBlock origin makes me stick with Firefox (or Mull).

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It's incredibly difficult to get the non-mobile-approved extensions added to Firefox. I remember it took me a couple of hours to get it configured and I had to change my browser to the nightly version, which I did not want to do for stability reasons.

It was even more difficult to install "unsupported" browser extensions. I had to install a very old version of Fennec F-Droid, install the extension, then update to the most current version of Fennec to keep the extension. Through trial and error across several different Firefox versions, I probably wasted 3 hours getting it set up on my phone.

If you are not motivated and tech savvy (ish), the chances of getting a non-supported extension on Firefox are quite slim.

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