i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios
That one is on apple tho.
Hoping for more EU intervention on those tools.
Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?
A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google’s monopoly in the space.
The alternative would be … The EU rules that only webkit and Firefox are allowed on iOS…? That’s not happening, nor should it. (Fuck Google still though, I agree with your stance there)
Better than apple doing whatever the fuck they want. Imagine Microsoft would have only allowed IE based browsers on windows. We would still be in the IE days, because why put work into something when you can just force people to use it?
At least with chrome it is used because it is a pretty competent engine.
That’s just a better reason not to use Windows
I mean if I was dictator I would do this… But some people would hate me for it and they’d have a decent argument to make. It won’t happen… But yeah, fuck googl cannot be said enough
Yes, equal ground should be given to all. Unfortunately, you’re right about Chromium but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t play fair.
Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn’t that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.
But, ios legitimately sucks because it’s so restrictive and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.
I used Android and its variants for 10+ years. With each version you had to do more and more battle to somewhat safeguard any shed of privacy. It was exhausting.
So I bit the bullet and chose the lesser of two evils. Apple > Google.
Happy so far.
You cloud always use LineageOS or even better GrapheneOS. With Apple, you’re just trading one devil for another.
That doesn’t sound like it’s easier than buying an iPhone
It’s much more suited to the usecase.
Considering your comment I wouldn’t say you are happy lol
There is no lesser. 4 oz pile of blue shit is same as 4 oz pile of pink shit. Both the enshittification process will enshrine.
Google will crawl over broken glass to steal your data. Apple sells you overpriced shit. they are not the same
My man, you’re living in cuckoo land if you think Apple isn’t tracking you.
of course they are. but comparing to google - it’s like they aren’t
Apple doesn’t need to crawl over broken glass to steal your data when you just give it to them.
Don’t worry, you guys will soon get sideloading. Hopefully someone ports it to iOS
Orion supports (some) Firefox extensions. Worth a look imo.
Wow, yes it is!
Just tested Firefox Focus, Vivaldi, Opera, DuckDuckGo, and Safari with Hyperweb (non-optimized adblock configuration admittedly).
Orion blocked more ads out of the box than the rest. Impressive. Says it supports some Chrome extensions too. (Didn’t test.)
Interesting there’s no default search engine. There is an extremely gentle prod towards Kagi by listing all other search engines under “Ad-Supported”.
Yeah I just found this out and sure enough it works.
Don’t worry. It sucks on Android. It’s not nearly as fast and smooth, as the PC application
It’s the same/better as any browser app on Android, and even if that isn’t true your comment is still completely pointless and ignores what they said.
Misunderstand me wrong. I use Firefox on Android. But I feel like the Android app is a bit more neglected than I would prefer. I have tried Chrome-based Android, and I must unfortunately say they work a lot better. Ublock and it being not Chrome are the reason I still use it. I guess Dark Reader might be a minor extra reason
I have the opposite experience, and other sources say they’re the same.
What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I’ve never used iOS.)
Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible
yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios
Whaaaat? Damn.
Nowadays I tend to feel fed up with Android and switching to iOS crosses my mind sometimes, but the more I hear about iOS, the more I appreciate Android.
Seriously, WTF?! A web browser is a pretty essential tool, I can’t believe a real Firefox version cannot be installed.
I guess, my long term solution will be some Android-fork.
massive W firefox
Don’t give them too much credit. They’re only returning most of what they took away four years ago.
They’re not changing their minds though, that was always the plan?
To upgrade the browser then slowly reintroduce extensions
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Yeah, where are the themes? Not like they are anything beyond a background change nowadays anyway.
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W for win
L for loss
In this slang, W is pronounced dub ( first syllable of “double u”)
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There’s a committee that meets every 3 months and takes in suggestions from the public.
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It happened on a sport field, none of us were invited
Speek 4 urself
Sports have been using W/L to mark the outcome of games for decades.
Same places they have for thousands of years, plus a few new ones
Streamers mostly I guess
It is 100% real fr fr no cap
No cap it do be real
It’s a major win (Massive W) as opposed to a big loss (Huge L)
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It’s not zoom speak. I’ve heard it during the 90s.
Common ecnkmaxo L
Unpopular opinion: just type “Massive Win”. What’s wrong with it?
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“Massive W” = Big Win
It’s like saying someone had a really big victory or success. For example, imagine your team winning a game by a lot of points or someone doing really well in a competition. That’s when people might talk about a “massive W.”
It’s here on Nightly. :)
Say no more fam
It’s been here for months :)
All extensions totally opened without any user requirements? AKA not hacky thingys with collections and such?
Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.
Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
I am also using the same method and hoping the same thing. I doubt we will have to do the song and dance just because it is very much a developer feature test route and they have had extension functionality previously in the regular release.
Also looking forward to pulling back to stable build.
Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.
I have had this happened to me before, I think it has something to do with Android closing the app because of needing more RAM, hence you go back to FF and find out a blank page or sometimes it is not even the correct tab lol, refreshing it won’t fix it thus you’d need to manually close, or force close the app to get it in a working state.
Also, I haven’t checked on mobile, but the PS Store website just crashes Firefox entirely in macOS lol, those kind of annoyances weren’t present in Chromium based browsers, and I can see this being a huge downside for most people, for me it is worth it because FF is so damn cool.
Yeah that’s weird. I end up needing to open a new tab. Does it randomly.
this happened to me atleast twice a day. it’s annoying, and sometimes i ended up using chrome.
I have it happen for webview most times I use it. I ended up using Kiwi Browser instead because of it.
Common Firefox W
I honestly can’t wait for this to happen so I can finally get Flagfox on my phone. I likenbeing able to see where a website might be hosted, where the server is.
What are some good extensions for Firefox? I got the standard ad-block but I don’t know what else is out there.
Ublock origin
Search by image
web archives (for when you hit a paywall)
old reddit redirect (so you don’t get stuck on the broken mobile site)
I straight up can’t see anything on new Reddit now. just “something went wrong”. they’re really screwing things up -_-
Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It’s not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.
If you are an Android, why not just use LibreTube?
In my particular case: because I still need to sync my subscriptions and playlists, as well as the support for adding comments.
You can create an account on a Piped instance and use it to log in to LibreTube. That way, you can sync your subscriptions and playlists. The only thing you can’t do is comment.
Note to self, see if I can self-host Piped
You can. It’s pretty easy. That’s exactly what I do.
Dark Reader. Make sure to set the background color to pure black (#000000)
Also a password manager like Bitwarden
Why not just download the app for Bitwarden?
We collect information from you while you are using our Website or Mobile App, or when viewing Cultivate content via our Extension
No thanks. Fuck apps that track everything I do and sell it to randos
Edit: here’s an open source version that doesn’t track and sell your data in an intrusive manner
Looks cool, is it mainly for the US? Also does it show other Amazon sellers or local brick and mortar stores?
Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained. Use LibRedirect instead.
Thanks! That one has some great features too!
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Next, tab stacking.
And a tablet UI
Yup, my android tablet is the only device I own (unless you count my smart tv) where I don’t use Firefox. At least there’s kiwi so you can have a tablet interface and still be able to install addons
Is it a different UI than the one that has on the iPad?
There has been no tablet UI for Firefox on Android since the Fenix update 4 years ago. It’s just the phone UI stretched out. It’s a big bummer
Firefox is dead to me until they bring back a proper tablet UI. No tab bar is a deal breaker.
Yeah, I use Samsung Internet on my tablet. Firefox on everything else, so I obviously miss the syncing, tab push and access to extensions with my tablet. I even put it up as an Idea on Mozilla Connect, where a lot of people seem to agree, but I don’t foresee Firefox ever addressing this. I think they’re buried under a mountain of back-end issues.
This is very needed, I think you can get around on desktop with some neat extension, but we are fucked on mobile lol.
Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?
Me? I am looking forward to improve performance on Android
no i still think it’s boring
Do I need to install mobile-specific add-ons or will the ones I have on desktop sync across?
I don’t know if they’ll sync, but you’ll be able to install all add-ons available on desktop (possibly minus the Firefox themes)
That’s not what they announced. Extensions marked as compatible with Android will be available and technical changes to the design of some extensions are recommended to ensure good results.
tbh I didn’t even know it was limited because all I use is uBlock origin lmao
Will be fun to see Wappalyzer on mobile
Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.
Holy shit that’s huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.
From screenshots I learned some new extensions to use for desktop and mobile. Thanks @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz
