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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by pwdisswordfishc on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:52PM (#34830930)
> Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what.

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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by sp332 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:55PM (#34830954)
Wasn't this a casualty of the XUL addons being removed? The other monkey extensions were ported to the new Web Extension APIs.
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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by pabs3 on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:28AM (#34831134)
Greasemonkey still works in recent Firefox versions.
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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by piyush_soni on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:12AM (#34831409)
It does, now, but its developer took a really long time in porting, in that time TamperMonkey was developed and had really gained popularity.
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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by IAmNotAFix on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:42AM (#34836927)
So it might actually still be the best choice.
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Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey by piyush_soni on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:51AM (#34831280)
IIRC, the developer initially resisted shifting to WebExtensions and then eventually (my assumption) half-heartedly did convert his extension to it, but in the meantime TamperMonkey developer got to it much sooner and worked hard for making it work equally well in both Chrome and Firefox. It is still not as feature rich as TamperMonkey and not even actively maintained anymore I think.
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