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    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.
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      Thanks the clickbait title really threw me off.

      Have been using Firefox on Android for years, it’s pretty good with a decent adblocker.

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      450? I’m pretty sure all of them are now available. Some may not work fully but at least they are there.

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      Yeah the clickbait is really strong. I wish we could have two titles. The actual article title and the after clickbait title.

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        Post body can be used for that. It’s just some posters don’t bother.

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    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.

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    I know it’s bleeding edge and asking a lot in a technical sense but how about letting us set what our homepage actually is? I know in the ~35 years browsers have existed, this has been an elusive feature but if anyone can do it, it is Mozilla.

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      We don’t even have it on desktop, yet. I wouldn’t use them as much as I do at work, where I use them to actively manage dynamic workflows. But it sure would be nice to be able to collapse some shopping tabs I typically have open, into one pinned tab group, or researching various projects.

      Once they do it, I sure hope they put some more thought into how pinned tab groups should behave. They should either be to the left of all pinned tabs, or between pinned tabs and unpinned tabs. It drives me crazy in Edge, how new tabs tend to open to the left of my pinned tab groups.

      Actually, I exclusively use Firefox Focus on my phone, so I don’t really care there. But I do wish they’d get out of this half-assed support for tabs, there. Just let me create new tabs without long pressing links. Maybe put a limit on number of tabs to 3 or 5. I’d also love to have a “send to desktop” option, without having to go to regular Firefox and tab sync.

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    So, what extension that is only available now, but wasn’t on mobile before, do you recommend ?

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      If you’re learning Japanese, then “10ten” is very good. It adds a little “puck” you can use to hover over words and phrases to see their dictionary definitions, readings, etc.

      (On desktop, it instead works whenever yoy hover your mouse cursor over a word, but on mobile, that’s not a thing. Either way, it’s easy to turn on/off based on your need.)

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    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).

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    We don’t need more browser extensions, we need isolation per site and Gecko based webview to be able to stand up to Chromium based browsers and their unfair monopoly.

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    cool feature, but how’s Passkeys support on the desktop going?

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      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.

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        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 :(

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    Great more extensions, but still no tabbed mode for tablets and larger screen devices… /s

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      This would be amazing for DeX as well yes. It’s the one remaining reason for using Chrome.