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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unless things have changed, Apple's policy of generally not allowing programs to download executable code would block this. Browsers are locked into using Apple's allowed web engines because of this, so basically every browser on iOS is safari or re-themed safari

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are some browsers that have extensions on iOS, notably Orion (which unfortunately is iOS and MacOS only, no Windows)