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I’ve been waiting for this!
Is there an extension to bring the tab bar back for Android tablets? Otherwise nothing interesting for me.
No idea how good or bad this is but I saw a link to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tablet-ui-for-firefox/ posted somewhere a few days ago and still had a tab open.
About damn time, they should never have disabled it in the first place.
They didn’t disable it, they rebuilt the entire browser from scratch to re-base on their current desktop-grade rendering engine, and as a result had to port a lot of things and optimize in regards to android’s battery optimization.
They’ve finally finished doing that and can now begin the preperation for releasing this to the public.
I’d be happy with Firefox for Android if it didn’t hang on loading 3/4 of pages. Its been an ongoing bug for years that my partner has also mentioned to be an issue.
Wierd.you must have an edge case because thats very uncommon.
We both have a very different setup that are used pretty normally so I doubt it is.
Cool! I’ve been using Firefox Nightly to workaround extension limitations. I’ll be able to switch back to having nicer icon colors xD
I hope that with this being official support some extensions regain full features on mobile. For example, vimperator cannot open tabs on mobile currently(using it with samsung dex)
I’m just hoping for theming to come back to Firefox on Android. Really not into the new UI design either. (T_T)
I’d use Firefox for Android if it had working per - site process isolation.
That took way too long, but better late than never.
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Yes, if you run beta/nightly, create an account on their system, and add the extension to a collection there. That’s a lot of hoops to jump through, and it reduces the possible audience for an extension developer to a tiny fraction, so nobody has put any effort into building extensions for Firefox on Android.
The last point is the biggest one. What’s the point in unlocking additional extensions if about all of them don’t work?
It used to be a thing, didn’t it? I remember using any PC browser extension I wanted on my phone at some point and I think it was in Firefox.
Yeah it was removed when they rebuilt Firefox Android on a new engine and they deemed the extension system too unreliable at the time.
It was until FF68, when Mozilla decided that it would improve their market share if they rewrote the whole browser and kicked all their advantages down the drain.
They had issues with battery optimization and parity for a while now, but with both those issues being fixed (see: latest nightly) they can finally begin the preparations to rolling out support for ALL extensions :D
That’s cool
Super excited! Firefox is already great and this will just make it more great!
The key takeaway from this is that they’re finally rolling out their Web Manifest v3. I’m super excited
Heck yeah, have about 5 or 6 extensions I use on the desktop version I wanna use on the mobile version!
Is there any hope for third party themes as well?
Apple needs to allow other browser engines at this point
I hope they would include addon sideloading as well
