i wish firefox wasn’t neutered on ios
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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That one is on apple tho.
Hoping for more EU intervention on those tools.
Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?
A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google's monopoly in the space.
The alternative would be ... The EU rules that only webkit and Firefox are allowed on iOS...? That's not happening, nor should it. (Fuck Google still though, I agree with your stance there)
Better than apple doing whatever the fuck they want. Imagine Microsoft would have only allowed IE based browsers on windows. We would still be in the IE days, because why put work into something when you can just force people to use it?
At least with chrome it is used because it is a pretty competent engine.
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Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn't that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.
But, ios legitimately sucks because it's so restrictive and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.
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Don't worry, you guys will soon get sideloading. Hopefully someone ports it to iOS
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massive W firefox
Don't give them too much credit. They're only returning most of what they took away four years ago.
They're not changing their minds though, that was always the plan?
To upgrade the browser then slowly reintroduce extensions
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Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
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Firefox can come out huge if they keep it up! Fuck chrome and google.
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Common Firefox W
Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.
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I honestly can't wait for this to happen so I can finally get Flagfox on my phone. I likenbeing able to see where a website might be hosted, where the server is.
What are some good extensions for Firefox? I got the standard ad-block but I don't know what else is out there.
Ublock origin
Search by image
web archives (for when you hit a paywall)
old reddit redirect (so you don't get stuck on the broken mobile site)
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Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It's not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.
Dark Reader. Make sure to set the background color to pure black (#000000)
Also a password manager like Bitwarden
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Wheres that guy who was getting mad about all the Firefox posts. Did he leave?
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Do I need to install mobile-specific add-ons or will the ones I have on desktop sync across?
I don't know if they'll sync, but you'll be able to install all add-ons available on desktop (possibly minus the Firefox themes)
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tbh I didn't even know it was limited because all I use is uBlock origin lmao
Will be fun to see Wappalyzer on mobile
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Holy shit that's huge. They already had extensions but very limited compared to the PC version.
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