1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog

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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?

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That moment when you’re stuck with safari because Apple said sideloading is dangerous 🙄

And because you chose to buy an Apple device, when Android or Linux devices are available, for cheaper even...

I bought apple devices because their software support is solid and the user interface is pretty.

But the limitations were not worth the trade off. As there are now decent alternatives and I’m no longer stuck with just android on the phone side of things anymore. There have been quite a few advancements made in the linux phone area.

I now have pixel 3a with ubuntu touch, old thinkpad with linux mint, a steam deck and gaming rig with linux nobara. I got the whole 9-yards. I will using more of linux as time goes on.

How's the battery life with the 3a? I feel like the battery has degraded to hell unless you replaced it but I am curious

I bought it used. The phone lasts me through alight, I would say it has the capacity for 4 hours of screen on time.

Though Ubuntu Touch drains more on standby so often when I'm in the mood to try it I have to replug it in.

Apple just has better integration for a lot of things, and the UI is just so much better

The UI for playing ads and paying for music sure is great!

uYouEnhanced + YouTube Premium

I don't have this problem. The android and iOS YT apps are similar, I was talking about the OS in general

Not sure what’s wrong with paying for listening to music. Used regional pricing so for me YT premium is like 4€/month. I consider that a pretty good deal.

I remember downloading some app in highschool off the playstore to make my old ass galaxy note4 UI look like an IPhone X, had identical features and everything. It looked legit to my friends who used them their whole lives. Didn't really like it but its out there.

Oh and there's free apps like Innertune which is basically YT music+

I’m on a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS so I’m not sure that would work

https://auroraoss.com/

I already use Aurora and have Google Play services sandboxed already enabled, but thanks anyway! :)

If it was the ui app you were asking for it was called Launcher iOS 15, but they made an 18 version since then. I'd get a system adblock or DNS before installing any of them, assuming they work on your phone anyway

Thanks! They claim not to log any info, so that’s nice. I’ll check further but it was a big complaint that I had. :)

Edit: they just didn’t put the privacy infos in the play store, but they seem to reserve the right to retrieve some infos.

I’ll guess I’ll throw LuckyPatcher at it to try to remove google services and disallow internet access

Don't mind people blaming you for choosing a brand. Their ire is misplaced, it's the company's fault as much as it's the consumers fault and the consumers should focus their energy in convincing companies to change their ways or loose their loyalty. This petty meaningless victim blaming helps no one.

It would help if you voted with your wallet from now on though.

Yeah I will be buying Linux devices after I run my apple stuff into the ground.

Apple limits choice/repairability and make my favourite little devs jump through hoops through draconian rules. I learned my lesson.

I just bought apple devices because their software support is pretty solid.

Honestly the reason I own and use an old iPad, it was practically the only tablet that could do what I wanted. I used a Mac mini for the better part of five years before I switched to Windows and finally Linux! (It's ok if Linux isn't for you)

I get the appeal, their hardware is very nice and I still wish other manufacturers matched the tolerances Apple sets for their hardware. I just can't buy from a company behaving like that. Also good man using your hardware for as long as reasonably possible! 😁 We only have one earth after all.

To their credit, Safari’s extension support on iOS is reasonably good. Not like Firefox good, but compared to chrome it’s excellent!

Well, that's what you get if you choose to be treated like a child by a company

Ublock origin is the best

I do wish Mozilla would remove the proprietary parts of Firefox though

Can you list some of those, I'm curious.

DRM plugin and all the built-in cloud stuff is proprietary on the server side

(the sync can actually be self-hosted and is OSS, the DRM is third-party and proprietary)

I mean, that's not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.

The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.

They could OSS their server side code ofc, that'd be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don't really blame them on that one tbh.

Which parts of Firefox ares proprietary?

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That's cool but I only use a few on the mobile. Adblock origin and Bitwarden. Guess I should check out what else is out there.

DarkReader and PrivacyBadger are useful too.

Is the bitwarden extension any different then just the app?

IMO not worth it unless you use a different password manager for stuff outside the browser.

I keep meaning to see if SponsorBlock works on mobile now.

Also, just to confirm in case anyone's curious: did you mean uBlock Origin?

Finally tried it, and stress-tested it with an LTT video. It works!

Consent o matic

I don't care about cookies

Bypass paywalls

And extensions to redirect reddit, Twitter, and tiktok Links to alternative frontends

not sure how well the first two are going to work together, given that the first one clicks through the banners to deny as many cookies as possible, while the second one blocks said banners from loading.

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Is there a working alternative frontend for Twitter? I haven't visited the site since the public instances of Nitter I used went down

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I use sponsorblock and just use YouTube through the browser instead of the app

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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.

For me the uBlock Origin cookie notice filters broke many sites (e.g. it feels like it is frozen, blank screen), while consent o matic just fills them out

Good news, I have been using them on Mull since a while, quite useful

Was using Mull and now with Iceraven. Add-on support for both has been awesome.

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!

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

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?

On android I'm pretty basic:

  • uBlock Origin
  • JShelter
  • LibRedirect
  • Dark Reader

On PC I'm using some more:

  • uGet integration
  • Video Download Manager (grabbing links for yt-dlp)
  • SideBerry
  • Bitwarden

and probably some others I forgot right now. I also try to not use to many addons

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

Self hosting means having an application run on your own server. The easiest introduction is probably using raspberrypi to run something like Jellyfin

uBlock Origin is a must. Then Stylus with a global-dark userstyle. Very light on resource than Darkreader.

Cookie Auto Delete is a must for me, on Android and desktop