Things about the new Firefox browser for Android

Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by coldpie on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:10PM (#22435220)

God Damnit I Hoped They Wouldn't Do This. I love you Firefox but you make it so hard. I've come to depend on NoScript on mobile (the mobile web is a _nightmare_ with JS enabled by default) and now they're going to break it on me. The worst part is the part of this article about how their browser is not ready for extensions is labeled "Extension-ready". No it fucking isn't.

Fuck this is so frustrating.

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by twic on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:08PM (#22438962)

> The worst part is the part of this article about how their browser is not ready for extensions is labeled "Extension-ready". No it fucking isn't.

A classic example of the baffling transparent corporate bare-faced lie. Nobody is going to believe it's ready, so why on earth say that?

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:58PM (#22435790)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.icecat/ ?

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by ficklepickle on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:59PM (#22440416)

> updated 1 year ago

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by kd913 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:30PM (#22435487)

It's not like there isn't really a solution to this. You don't really need NoScript if you can learn how to use ublock origin in advanced mode.

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by coldpie on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:39PM (#22435580)

I've never tried the uBO script blocker, but NoScript's UI is really nice for performing common tasks related to blocking JS. Stuff like allowing temporary permissions per domain, or allowing all on the current tab. Does uBO have similar features?

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by kd913 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:17PM (#22436019)

Yes, in fact ublock origin has a very advanced global/local case where you can block resources globally or block resources locally and temporarily if you really want.

It's generally better to use ublock origin on it's own than to use ublock origin with umatrix or ublock with noscript. Mainly because ublock origin comes wiht neutralising anti-adblock scripts that would get blocked if you combine it with a separate script blocker.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...

Here is a good tutorial on how to use ublock origin in advanced mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lisQQmWQkY

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by enitihas on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:48PM (#22435665)

You can try the brave browser on Android. Disabling and enabling js temporarily is easy. Even better, enabling js on a website in private mode does not persist. So you can disable all js by default, enable it on trusted sites via 1 click easy to use UI, and enable anywhere in private mode without worrying about forgetting to disable it later.

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by boring_twenties on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:20PM (#22438040)

> enable it on trusted sites via 1 click easy to use UI

Does this just enable all scripts loaded by that site, or does it allow filtering by domain the scripts themselves are loaded from?

E.g. when browsing site.com you want to allow site.com (and often sitestatic.com or something), but still not allow doubleclick.net even though it's loaded by the same page.

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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by smacktoward on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:15PM (#22437309)

You might not need an addon at all; Firefox on both desktop and Android now includes a pretty capable ad/tracking blocker right out of the box. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Pri... for details.

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