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1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to explore new creative possibilities for mobile browser customization.

What are some of your favorite new Firefox for Android extensions?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Flaming hot take that's probably gonna get me downvoted to hell: releasing a new version of Firefox on mobile before there was a high level of extension compatibility killed a lot of the momentum it had going for it.

I know that maintaining two separate codebases is a huge challenge, but having the power of all desktop extensions on mobile was a pretty big draw and being told that only a small fraction of them work probably turned off a lot of people. I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.

Sandboxing also still sucks even after the rewrite, (still no Fission!) which is unacceptable in today's day and age. I say all this as a Firefox diehard on all platforms, but I'm tired of people acting like it's a magic bullet to kill Chrome. It still has a lot of problems, including its resource usage. I'm hoping Servo takes off soon, because that's what made Firefox so fast on desktop even though only a fraction of it was implemented.

/rejerk So glad my furry porn website userscripts work again!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

bro they had uBlock tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.

They kind of did that, fenix was under testing for a long time. Just the add-on wasn't implemented