LX Pontual
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile

www.theregister.com

external-link
message-square
52
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
921
external-link

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile

www.theregister.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
message-square
52
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to go mobile
www.theregister.com
external-link
Firefox Android add-ons coming soon
  • danc4498@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    129
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Stupid iPhones… I want extensions!

    • xep@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      26
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      I’d have bought an iPhone a long time ago if it had Firefox. Unfortunate.

      • Link@rentadrunk.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        46
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        It does have Firefox but it’s a Safari reskin.

        • danc4498@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          38
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          2 years ago

          It’s still better than chrome or safari on iOS. It has a built in ad blocker. Honestly, I just want that Reddit extension that automatically replaces www with old.

          • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            27
            ·
            2 years ago

            What’s Reddit?

            • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              6
              ·
              2 years ago

              It’s like Digg.

          • Nix@merv.news
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            2 years ago

            It’s called Sink it for Reddit

            • danc4498@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              2 years ago

              Thanks! I will try this out. Safari only, but I avoid Reddit as much as I can now.

        • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          15
          ·
          2 years ago

          So it’s not Firefox

        • fne8w2ah@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          2 years ago

          Because crApple only allows WebKit-based browsers on iOS.

        • ryo@lemmy.eco.br
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          2 years ago

          Firefox focus is pretty good, at least for what I use it for. I just need something I can quickly search with on mobile, the rest is in apps.

        • xep@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          deleted by creator

      • 001@kbin.melroy.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        2 years ago

        Hoping that when sideloading becomes a thing (thanks to the EU) firefox will develop a full iOS version

        • Xabis@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          2 years ago

          I was hopeful too until I found out that Apple is geofencing it to Europe only.

      • edric@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        Orion is the next best thing. You can install extensions like uBO and other FF extensions.

      • King@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        2 years ago

        r/redditmoment

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Orion browser by Kagi. Closest we have to a Firefox like browsing experience on the iPhone. 🙏

      • spiderman@ani.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        Is it chromium based or ff based?

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          2 years ago

          Literally the only option on iOS is WebKit, unless you’re sideloading.

        • provisional@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 years ago

          Webkit! It’s currently only available on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS.

          • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            2 years ago

            Isn’t every browser on iOS webkit?

            • provisional@lemmy.sdf.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              6
              ·
              2 years ago

              Yes but the browser engine isn’t really the main selling point. Kagi is building Orion Browser with zero telemetry, native ad blocking, and support for Firefox and Chrome extensions. It’s privacy respecting, fast, and extensible. Support for other platforms are also planned.

              • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                2 years ago

                Thank you all for explaining!

                I will note that it does have its issues, and that you may not want to use it as your daily driver if you’re worried about some website breakage. To me, having most of the little extensions I use on Firefox work correctly makes me like it more. I just don’t recommend going in without warnings of some kind. 🙏

    • gkd@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 years ago

      If Google is investing in creating a non-WebKit browser for iOS and given all the heat they are getting for Safari and WebKit, we might see this sooner than later.

      https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/04/google-working-on-browser-that-would-break-rules/

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.99K users / day
  • 9.28K users / week
  • 17.7K users / month
  • 37.8K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 69.9K subscribers
  • 12.9K Posts
  • 526K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org