Summary (from the article):
- Firefox for Android now has third-party extension support, allowing users to customize their browsing experience.
- Mozilla has made over 450 extensions available for Firefox on Android, with more to come in the future.
- While Chrome dominates the mobile browsing market, Firefox aims to stand out by offering extension support on Android.
gosh, I miss the pre-purchase, pre-clickbait Android Police.
I wasn’t begging for a clickbait though!
The clickbait headline has made me angry enough I don’t even care what feature they’re talking about. They can get in the bin.
Nice for people that need it but I basically only require 2 - 3 extensions for mobile browsing and they were all supported already. There is a lot of overlap and extension redundancy out there. Many people still think they need like 5+ different privacy related extensions, for example, when uBlock Origin can do basically everything (including removing paywalls).
Is there a custom filter for removing paywalls? I use it and it doesn’t do that for me
The extension which is more fully-featured than just a blocklist is now available again: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean-d/
What’s the difference in terms of features?
This is the GitHub page of the extension. It details supported websites and other things
Yeah but I’m asking what the difference is between the extension and adding the extension’s filter list to uBlock. The other person said the extension is “more fully featured” but it doesn’t appear to do much more than circumvent paywalls. It still seems like an unnecessary extension.
To give one example. It puts a link on paywalled Medium.com pages to view the page’s content on another site since a block list will no longer be able to bypass the paywalled content on Medium.com.
cool feature, but how’s Passkeys support on the desktop going?
Poorly. Tried it the other day, zero support outside of Chrome and Edge.
Then again, website support for Passkeys is not doing all that spectacularly either, the best one is still GitHub’s.
They are working on it. They finally introduced full passwordless Webauthn on Linux and Mac about 5 versions ago. This work was part of the preparations for passkeys. It’s coming.
There was a firefox dev who explained a bit about all this somewhere in a comment thread on hacker news but I forgot to favourite or bookmark it :(
