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Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by khoplex@lemmy.one to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It took them SO LONG to get back to this point. They gutted the extensions with the redesign a while back. Only allowed approved extensions(which I understand since a lot of desktop extension ui just doesnt work on android and many extensions are broken), but then they kinda just stopped. They added a convoluted method of creating an account and whitelisting extensions on the account if you use nightly, but it was a hassle to use and it's been years since even that was introduced.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I mean, for normies it might be OK, but why not add a toggle that allows me to install whatever I want. If they don't work I'll just have to uninstall the again. It's not like it's gonna break my browser

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

They don't even allow the use of about:config in the main Firefox branch.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where are my tabs on tablet? Oh where did they go...

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Any fork for that?

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I last used a chromium based browser more than 5 years ago. Recently I bought myself a tablet and had to make the difficult decision to switch to the kiwi browser there just because Mozilla can't be bothered to include tabs for their tablet layout.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yea, I'm considering an alternative, too. I love FF, but this is a big gap for me.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I thought it was odd, considering the previous version just got a revamp not long before.