A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by s5ma6n on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:21AM (#22073165)

For me personally, uBlock (and other extensions) is the only reason I am using Firefox on Android. If this feature is removed, I will either go back to Samsung Browser or check something else.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by boudin on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:35AM (#22073245)

Web-extentions are comming, i hope that it will be fully functionnal before it replaces the current firefox https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/7280

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by squiggleblaz on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:42AM (#22073283)

"Hope" in this case shouldn't be enough unless they also decide to bake ublock origin right in.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by vanderZwan on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:58AM (#22073630)

I'm a bit torn on the latter idea, actually: as much as I would love it if Mozilla would give such a well-deserved middle finger to the advertising world for their bad behavior, I also think it would create a kind of relationship between gorhill and Mozilla that would result in an unhealthy power dynamic.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by jeena on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:24AM (#22073489)

I have 2 reasons uBlock and the fact that I can use my own sync server.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by blendergeek on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:18PM (#22076714)

How do you do that? I have been wanting to run my own sync for a long time but haven't been able to figure it out.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by gruez on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:34PM (#22076933)

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

was the guide I used

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by blendergeek on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:00PM (#22078581)

Okay. Thank you. Do you run your own accounts server or just use Mozilla's?

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by jeena on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:24PM (#22087744)

I use still Mozillas but have planned to replace it some day.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by propogandist on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:41PM (#22079023)

Samsung browser is a piece of garbage that is constantly phoning home, like all other pre-installed Samsung apps.

Look into Kiwi Browser. It's a chromium based android browser that supports extensions https://kiwibrowser.com/

I've been using it alongside FF for Extensions, but it's nicer (+faster) than FF and has features like pull down to refresh a page, native web-app support etc.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by timvisee on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:38AM (#22073261)

Yes, the same goes for me. Even though I really like these changes, this needs to be added. Will switch to Stable until then, I guess.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by jshevek on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:39AM (#22073269)

If you are checking something else, I recommend Brave. I've switched from Firefox to Brave and I am mostly satisfied.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by joseph2342 on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:04AM (#22073387)

What does it offer that Firefox does not ?

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by fwn on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:42AM (#22073559)

People here seem to "hope" that extension support will be implemented.

If my stable Firefox for Android gets updated into a browser without uBlock Origin I will immediately switch to some chromish alternative with adblocking. There's no reason for firefox for android once extension support is gone, featurewise.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by losvedir on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:12AM (#22074288)

I use Firefox for Android for one reason: the ability to not load images on cell data. I'm surprised other browsers don't have that, but it's huge for me since I pay by the megabyte (Google Fi). It saves me $10/month easily.

edit: oh, it looks like that's missing, too. Nooooo....

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by terminaljunkid on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:32AM (#22074434)

Plus ublock origin can save a lot of data.

I am on a slow university network and I keep JavaScript off by default using UBO. It takes 3 clicks to enable it for sites that really need it, but web is much faster with it.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by reportgunner on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:35AM (#22074883)

Try the duckduckgo android browser, most ads fail in it without extensions required.

My favorite feature is the "fire" icon that closes all tabs, deletes all cookies and history and basically reinitializes the browser.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by useragent86 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:48AM (#22075005)

HN mods should investigate the systematic downvoting of pro-Brave comments. It happens on every discussion of browsers.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by thenewnewguy on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:49AM (#22076335)

I "systematically" downvote comments that exist solely to advertise an alternative to the software being discussed. I would do the exact same thing to "hey, use firefox" comments on a Brave-related article.

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Re:A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android ... by jonny383 on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:13PM (#22081099)

They keep getting voted down because comments like "just use brave" don't actually add anything relevant to the discussion about the subject article.

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