Now, if only iOS would allow true Safari alternatives. 🥲
They’ll soon be forced to allow sideloading, in the EU at least. Should open the doors for proper alternative browsers.
If you can sideload anything you want, why would that be the case? I don’t think there’s a technical limitation, they just don’t allow it on the app store if it doesn’t use safari.
If you can sideload an app there’s nothing Apple can do to stop you from shipping a new rendering engine.
I loathe the very fact they made people call it “sideloading”. It’s just installing on your own terms, like it used to be the norm.
Well, it’s a carry over from its early days in how it used to work. You needed to install things via USB debugger. Generally that’s all sideloading ever meant, transferring information from one device to another using a generally “local” method (SD card, USB, etc). Now sideloading, on Android at least (as it retains its original meaning elsewhere), just means not from the official repository.
This is great.
God I miss the old Firefox for Android :(
Are you suggesting this is bad? What was better about “old” Firefox for Android?
No, this is similar to the old Firefox for Android, which is why I like it.
When you could just browse AMO and add an add-on at will. It was also much smoother.
It was also much smoother
now that’s just rose-tinted glasses speaking. I remember how absolutely abysmal old Firefox’ scrolling was, and how they’ve claimed multiple times that they’ve improved it but it was still horribly sluggish compared to Chromium browsers. I’ve been using Firefox Preview (and then Nightly after enough performance improvements have landed on it) for about a year just to have acceptable experience on mobile.
For those who don’t know yet: Firefox Nightly for Android let you install any extension you desire.
You just need to create a custom collection on the web site and link your ID in nightly.
Yep. I always mention Fennec who may hesitate to use Beta since it’s a stable release with full add-on support.
I’ve never tried Mull.
Not an expert but as I’ve understood it it’s pretty similar to Fennec, less tracking and more private than your regular Firefox. I don’t know anything about either ones development team size or activity either so I can’t recommend one over the other. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.
Like mine, for those who don’t want to curate: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/17401236/p1xiekat-Android/
Yesssss
