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One more reason to stick with Firefox

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Other browsers already do, firefox users just cant stop licking mozillas balls

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Firefox has always had been the most attractive to many people.

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On mobile? Very few do

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The point is they already do unlike what the article claims

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You do realize other mobile browsers also come with an ad blocker…right? Look up Vivaldi for example.

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Idk what u mean but whatever ad scenario u have going on in your brain, i said extensions supported, which means adblocks included

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Cool! So many useful extensions that I couldn’t use on android.

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Mobile FF is already awesome with UBlock Origin and YT background playback extensions. I wish to install an auto redirect extension. (Twitter to Nitter) I know it is doable on beta w/ extensions etc. but I want to see them on normal Firefox.

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Have a look at YouTube ReVanced if you want a much better YouTube experience on Android. :)

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use Newpipe, it’s free software, unlike revanced.

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Or LibreTube

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I used to have an app to do the redirection on several sites automically but afair the Nitter thing was just so unstable that I removed the app.

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Same, like 30% of the time it worked, the other 70% it would be very slow or not load at all

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It might have been some time ago, because even the main instance has been consistently working for me as of recent

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Yeah this winter and spring

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You can install tamper monkey and use a userscript to redirect. That’s what I do.

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That’s nice, maybe they can finally re-enable about:config in the damn thing too. They removed it from mobile Firefox years ago and the lack of it aggravates the hell out of me.

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It’s available in nightly (and I think dev) builds

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If you don’t want to use the potentially unstable Nightly, Dev or Beta, you can use Fennec (stable builds with dev features).

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probably in normal Firefox too, it’s just hidden in all of them

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Fennec still supports it, just as it supports add-ons from the official Mozilla store. Don’t see any reason why I should go back to the official app.

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Yup. Unless they break anything, which I can’t really imagine at this point.

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Is there an easy way to migrate from the official app to Fennec? Keeping accounts, extensions and settings?

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If you have enabled the sync feature in Firefox, it seamlessly works with Fennec; as does the integration between Fennec and Firefox Desktop. Simply log on with your Firefox account in Fennec, and you won’t even feel the difference.

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How do I make use of this? I can’t see a way to install them on my Fennec from F Droid

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You have to add a custom addons collection. That’s how.

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Doesn’t it already support them ?

edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile

edit2: also they forgot about kiwi, but then it’s not a major browser (and is it still maintained ?). still would’ve been cool if they corrected this

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Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it’s chromium based if remember correctly.

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it also whitelists ad blockers from working on some, presumably “partnered”, websites.

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What? You just install the uBlock Origin extension. Are you saying it overrides domain and element blocks from uBlock?

It’s open source so if you could point to the code that does it, that would be great: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

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Didn’t know that. I also got some kind of shady vibes from Kiwi, but never run into any issues with it. Firefox was causing all kinds of problems with pages failing to load so I bailed, but would be glad to return if they fix the bugs and add full extension support.

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Firefox does?

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oh I didn’t know, pretty cool

at least both chromium and Firefox get a version with add ons

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Nightly versions and Fennec.

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Mull too

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This article was weird for me also I have all my extension already installed like bitwarden for passwords and all kind of adblockers and scriptblockers

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