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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by wingmanjd on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:50PM (#27933627)
I love FF on Android (it's my primary browser there), but there is a serious limitation on what extensions can be installed now. I think you're limited to only a certain curated list of like 12 extensions. Thankfully, uBlock is one of them, but I miss some of my others.
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by NmAmDa on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:02PM (#27934397)
You can install firefox beta or nightly and use developer tools access to add extension collection from your choice which will replace these recommended extensions.

Note : you must create this collection on firefox addon or find existing one as you will need the collection ID.

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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by thatguy0900 on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:24PM (#27934605)
Does anyone know what the benifit is to Firefox to create such a roundabout workaround? Why Google makes things difficult and obscure is clear, but why does Firefox care what add-ons you install on your phone?
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by NmAmDa on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:32PM (#27935870)
Majority of any browser users are not tech people so making these workaround easier would confuse those users as most of the plugins are not written with mobile aspects into consideration (Even their mobile API is not complete yet).
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by woojoo666 on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:23PM (#27935804)
afaik a lot of extensions aren't fully supported yet. I tried about a dozen different tab managers on FF Nightly, none of them worked. I'm guessing the Tab API or something isn't fully ported yet
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by pitaj on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:38PM (#27934756)
Not all of the APIs on mobile are production ready yet, so these options are for developers to try their add-ons.
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by DennisAleynikov on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:42PM (#27934796)
addons are usually hyper tunnel visioned around desktop users and almost none of their ui's work on mobile the way the developers of those extensions originally intended.

ublock and the other featured apps essentially had to adapt to the mobile firefox way of doing stuff and opening settings in a separate mobile ff tab etc.

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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store by wingmanjd on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:54AM (#27938808)
Oh, that's right! I had totally forgotten about that method.
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