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I don't get how the EU is not in arms about this. How is Apple able to get away with offering various browsers in the Store, when in the End they all are the Safari-Backend and therefore do not allow for competition in this ecosystem? How can a competitor stand out with a remarkable/better product, when he is not allowed to use his own engine? Or in this case: Prohibiting user from using Extensions like uBlock? Firefox is only a shell of their original performance when castrated by apples webview engine.
The EU is up in arms and the browser question is going to be handled through the DMA. The legal process has been going on since the summer and it's hilarious.
Apple argues 'Look, those Safaris on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, TvOS, WatchOS are TOTALLY DIFFERENT PRODUCTS and none of them have enough users in the EU for you to even think about regulating us, alright? We’re a tiny startup! Will nobody think of the children?!?' (I paraphrase somewhat)."
lol
And their ads literally say "Same Safari Different Device".
Ive been waiting for this day ever since Apple announced that you wouldn't be able to install any software you want on your own piece of hardware. I'm glad that someone has finally started cracking down on this. Just wish it had happened 15 years earlier.
Let me guess. You still bought the iPhone, right?
It helps that Apple doesn't have such a huge marketshare here.
It's about time. With Google being more and more hostile to AdBlocker on mobile, having Firefox taking an open approach to extension is welcomed.
Ublock origin was long available on Android
Been using Firefox Android for quite some time already. It's been my perfect browser pretty much. I'm glad more extensions are coming, so others can enjoy it as well, but I'm happy with just Dark Reader + uBlock Origin lol.
I've been using extensions on the Nightly build and love it.
What about the missing about:config feature ? :/
Let's make an extension for that!
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Still no site isolation right?
This on desktop, Firefox still doesn't support it on Android.
Are you sure? I can enable it on android just fine, I can't say if it works though
It seems there is some limited form of isolation, but not as strong as on Chromium-based browsers:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565196
GrapheneOS claims that Firefox bypasses some work done by them and upstream Android but they don't specify how exactly...
I'd trust them over myself to understand stuff like that.
Good step forward, but this will again flood people with duplicate extensions, useless adblockers, or even harmful ones. And there are quite a lot, even on AMO
I mean...... it's not like the app stores are any better.
but this will again flood people with duplicate extensions, useless adblockers, or even harmful ones. And there are quite a lot, even on AMO
But doesn't the best "float to the top" and are what is mostly installed though?
Most is not all. Would be great if Mozilla limited Addons like Ghostery
Hope there's one that can let me control the browser media player by double tap, it's quite annoying feature that's lacking
That t-shirt would be cool, but don't have time to properly test our extension before then
I'm looking forward to December when I'll have time to work on it. I'll try to attend some office hours, I didn't know that was an option
After the latest update of Iceraven browser (a fork of Firefox Mobile), it now allows to load add-ons offline as well as some browser addons directly from Firefox addons site.
iceraven becoming more pointless
IceIndri, IceIbex, or Rustyraven would have been better name imho
Might help me move to Firefox eventually now that there's more than just the few from before. Not many things keeping me back compared to before.
That's more extensions than I need, but thanks.
I'd like to see LibRedirect ported!
Did they ever fix the connection through proxy servers issue. Ff was literally unusable at my work, and such. I had to uninstall it
Weeelll if they load the same as currently I wonder if that doesnt crash the browser
You have been able to use a custom repo for extensions for over a year.
Whilst true, this has only been available with Firefox nightly. I've found some extensions break the collection where none of the extensions load until you remove the one that breaks it.
It also works on Beta, has for a while.
Rats, still no TamperMonkey lol. Prob asking for a lot to expect that to ever happen, though.
TamperMonkey is one of the "recommended" add-ons when I look at the list on my Android version of FF and I am not on a beta or dev build.
Tampermonkey is one of the few that have already been available
Violentmonkey too, which is open source
Wait what? I was looking for it a while back. Damn!