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Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
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It's weird, this is presented as new, but I had adblock on Firefox on Android from the start.
That and flash support were two of the major reasons for using Firefox on Android in the first place. This was back around 2010, when most porn sites still used flash players for video. Then flash died, that was fine. Then at some point Mozilla reduced the available extensions a lot, but at least some adblocker was still available.
They only allow a handful of curated extensions on mobile. You'll have to use the nightly build and jump through some hoops to install arbitrary extensions on mobile (mostly to allow devs to test their extension). Looks like they'll finally lift the restriction soon.
It's also worked on beta builds for some time now as well. Which is nice since you only get prompted to update every now and then instead of daily.
They rebuilt the mobile browser, if I'm not mistaken. It's why the extensions stopped for a long time.
I would say they didn't finish rebuilding it, for 5 years. They just broke the old browser. Not a cool thing to do honestly.
Android + Firefox & adblock is the only way to browse.
Sometimes I have to open something in Android + chrome.
Why tf can a mobile news site allowed to embed a video ad, a video in the bottom corner, and a sticky banner?!
I've had ublock origin on Firefox Android for at least a year... And my old Samsung S7 had Firefox with plugins for even longer.
So confused.