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?
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.
Just use Lineage OS. It is the most mature as it is based on AOSP
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
Only of you use a IPhone
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.
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
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 couldn’t find a list but here is the source for mull
Try Fennec browser, literally Firefox with proprietary parts removed and with access to about:config. Can be found in Fdroid
I use Mull
Which parts of Firefox ares proprietary?
Good news, I have been using them on Mull since a while, quite useful
uBlock Origin is a must. Then Stylus with a global-dark userstyle. Very light on resource than Darkreader.
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.
https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/amp2html/ is another one especially useful on mobile.
Thank you!
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.
Is there a working alternative frontend for Twitter? I haven’t visited the site since the public instances of Nitter I used went down
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?
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
And FuckedupFox deleted my entite session again. Every update it blanks me out. Fucking savages.
What is ****upFox?