• vonbaronhans
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    3 days ago

    Oh man. Once Firefox on Android got extension support, I hopped on that train so hard. No ads on mobile browser? Heck yeah.

    • Nanabaz2@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It has extensions support for like 6 years at this point. Unless you got some extreme obscure extensions

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        3 days ago

        Huh. I was under the impression that proper extension support (eg ublock origin) only came about recently?

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            3 days ago

            Well then. I’m unsure what news article I read that spurred me to try Firefox on mobile, but that’s my recollection of the order of events.

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            3 days ago

            There were a few years when only a handful were supported. Before that it was as open as now, leaving compatibility responsibility to the extension developers.

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      3 days ago

      Well, if my memory serves well, Ublock Origin has been in Firefox mobile for a long time already but I get you.

      Although even before I did the switch I rarely saw ads on Google because I have always used DNS ad blocking (whether using my pi-hole or AdAway root version) but yeah Ublock Origin is just so much better.

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      One thing I would like is to selectively enable extensions in the “custom tab” modal for Firefox.

      When I open an article, and it’s riddled with js and auto play video, I have to hit “Open in Firefox” to get uBlock to engage.

      It would be nice to have the reader mode button in this view as well.

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        2 days ago

        If it helps, you can dig into Androids settings and use Firefox for the default in-app browser for most apps. That’s what I did, anyway, and it’s been fantastic.