I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.
What’s wrong with Firefox???
Mostly can’t sign in to lemmy.world for some reason but otherwise I’d some change for a bit.
I don’t believe that’s a Firefox issue, unless it’s a problem specifically with the beta.
I’ve signed in a few times to lemmy.world using Firefox over the last week.
Sorry for being the annoying “not for me” guy. ;-)
That’s odd; I could sign in with lemmy.dbzer0.com without issue.
Maybe it’s an issue with the beta? Have you tried regular FireFox?
I’m using Firefox Nightly with zero issues here. Love being able to use any addon I want on my phone.
Maybe try Jerboa for Lemmy?
You’re probably gonna have to tell us what it is that you want and what it is that you don’t like about Firefox Beta.
Firefox non-beta
Mull is a Firefox hardened browser that works perfectly out of the box.
I couldn’t download files from a site I use because they apparently remove the referral information from requests even when you’re navigating inside the same site (doesn’t bring much privacy because anyone looking at the logs of that site can see the same IP moving from one page to the other).
Still a good browser, but like other projects that try to bring the Tor Browser changes to the normal web, it can break a few things.
I find Kiwi Browser essential. It’s one of the only ones that you can install chrome extensions onto.
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I believe that’s an outdated Github link. The project moved here with releases here. The search engine stuff has always seemed like a non-issue to me. I run both Fennec and Kiwi but the latter gives me a true black UI and support for fully side-loaded addons (not just those already on the Firefox website).
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Definitely lags behind, but much better than 2 years! The Firefox variants unfortunately don’t really handle PWA properly. I was a long-time Firefox/Fennec user but the bugs pushed me toward Kiwi on mobile.
Thanks for your desktop addon guide. If there’s a way to manually install .xpis from, say, github, I’m in! 👍
I’ve been trying to follow your guide for an hour now–but I’m not getting access to any add-ons but the “compatible” ones. For example, when I search for ‘Cookiebro’, the only two choices it shows me are Ghostery and uBlock Origin.
Using Kiwi because it supports Twitter control panel and old reddit redirect extensions.
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Well, kiwibrowser/src isn’t updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It’s the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi’s reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don’t prefer, it’s just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
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The dev must read this thread. I just got a Kiwi update via FFUpdater app. 😎
Well. Thanks for the info. Uninstalling
Edit: I added few add-ons to my collection.but I’m unable to add it to my Android. What could be the issue?
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Here’s what I did:
- created a new collection and added few addons
- copied the collection id from the URL
- opened Firefox nightly and enabled custom collection menu
- input the collection id
- Firefox quits
- when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”
edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now. Thank you for your help! :)
when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now.
I’m getting this same error. Added the collection ID and the name where?
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It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.
I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡
Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it’s chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
It’s worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don’t test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla’s web engine instead of Google’s
there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support
I’d love some examples!
Understandable! I know Firefox nightly and fennec, the f-droid compiled version of Firefox both have the ability to use any Firefox extensions, though setting it up is a little more work than one might need to expect. You have to first create an extension group or category on desktop (I dont remember exactly what Firefox calls it) and then you can load that group of extensions as a custom supported list of extensions on your mobile devices. Its not very technical, just requires setting up the group on your desktop first.
There may be other forks that have full extension support, and I’m kinda thinking there are, but those are the two I’m thinking of off the top of my head. But if you look up the forks of Firefox for android/mobile, I’d guess that most or all of them probably have extension support in the same way.
Otherwise, the official app has a short list of extensions that mozilla has tested that you can enable or disable, including ublock origin :)
Hope this helps!
Edit: the extension groups are referred to as " collections" so thats the option you’d be looking for on desktop. Here’s a handy link on setting it up from Mozilla :) it should be the same no matter which version/fork of firefox you’re looking to enable custom extensions on!
Unfortunately Brave’s own blocking engine isn’t capable to block as much as uBlock Origin, which Firefox supports on Android. But then Firefox might not work well on all sites… it’s a trade-off. Firefox works on the sites I use though, so that’s what I’ve been using.
Til about mobile extensions on Firefox mobile
And we can create our own custom extension list which then allows us to use more than just the short list of add-ons enabled by default:
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-now-supports-custom-add-on-collections/
Not every extension works well on mobile though, but many do. I have a few for youtube, twitter, reddit, etc.
But then they do stuff like this
I like Brave on my Android phone, too. I use the browser and its search engine (which is OK, DDG and Bing gets me better / different results).
What kind of features are you looking for? I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my primary mobile browser for a while now and have been very happy with it.
Iceraven. Its based on Firefox. I don’t like some of the UX peculiarities of Firefox but it works alright.
Ohh will check it out. it seems to fit my bill a bit.
Librewolf on desktop, Mull on android, doesnt matter on iOS
I think brave is pretty alright. Yes the crypto stuff is hella cringe and its chromium based but it works like charm.
What’s wrong with FF beta?
IMO Samsung Internet is one of the best Android browsers out there. Give it a try!
I think it offers alot of great features if you use a samsung phone. However the adblockers are not as good as ublock on firefox!
Therfeore I use both!!
It’s not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
Dark Mode for websites is a wonderful feature! I have a Note20U so the note access is awesome. The font seems to also render better than Firefox.
However, there are sites I can not stop ads on when using SI. Also no way to filter elements out. These are cases when I usually prefer Firefox.
Don’t forget that the browser has access to all of the data that you see on your display and everything you type in. All of it. So he careful who you trust. Is it a community software, is it non-profit, is it for profit, does it have a sustainable funding / business model.
Ungoogled chromium on desktop, Bromite on android
