Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by lemper on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:09AM (#37085614)

even though i am an exclusively firefox user both on desktop and mobile, i don't even know what kind of desktop version's extension that i would use on mobile. currently, i only use adblock and so far my experience is quite stellar.

though it should be noted that i use browser on phone just to consume text. no video, no audio, and even picture is rarely the focus.

so, what do i miss?

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by mrd3v0 on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:32AM (#37085741)

Dark Reader, LocalCDN, Firefox Relay, Firefox Translations, LanguageTool among others I have installed on Iceraven, a Firefox for Android fork.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by maccard on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:16AM (#37086314)

Dark Reader and Relay are both on Android. I'm not sold on LocalCDN being necessary or even helpful these days (but there was a time when it was. A bit like antiviruses other than Windows defender these days, or those registry cleaner tools).

The others are missing for sure, though.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:40AM (#37087149)

LocalCDN is helpful because it makes Firefox use local copies of popular JS libraries instead of downloading them over and over again. This makes browsing faster.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Macha on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:45AM (#37086476)

consent-o-matic, tampermonkey

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Cyuonut on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:41AM (#37087153)

Tampermonkey is installable in (my, at least) Forefox Android.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:41AM (#37087154)

> consent-o-matic

You don't need this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Macha on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:01AM (#37087266)

Not the same - sites will then take your not opting out of "legitimate interest" as consent. Not valid under GDPR really, but I'm not interested in giving them any argument to stand on.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:33AM (#37087496)

* The laws specify that it must be opt-in. If a site doesn't respect this, you can't expect it to respect any of your choices anyway.

* You can now also use uBlock Origin to set cookies and LocalStorage entries automatically. The annoyance lists already set opt-out cookies for sites like Google and Youtube

* Firefox has actually been isolating third-party cookies and other site data (e.g. LocalStorage) for over a year. It's pointless for you to ever be concerned about them.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Macha on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:54AM (#37087643)

Client side data is only part of the problem, and it's a common myopic argument to GDPR for opponents of GDPR to say people should just use their browser's cookie controls. Server side fingerprinting is as much as a problem, something the ad industry has adopted since Safari added ITP and are accelerating since Chrome has been making noises about following Safari and Firefox for a few years now. I suspect as soon as Google figures out how to do it without disrupting their own ad business it'll come into effect.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:12PM (#37095558)

uBlock Origin blocks connections to trackers/marketing companies by default. If you don't even connect to them, they can't fingerprint or track you.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by dahateb on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:48PM (#37092346)

Thanks, I didn't know about consent-o-matic, will try it out. If it works that will be the best extension in a long time.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by quantumsequoia on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:28AM (#37085721)

I use the nightly firefox app so I can use the bypass paywalls extension. Looking forward to being able to use it on the stable app

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by aysfrm11 on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:05AM (#37088240)

How do you do that since the extension is not listed in the Mozilla repository and has to be installed via XPI?

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by alraj on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:48AM (#37085841)

From the add-ons I use in my desktop which I cannot install in android firefox from addons.mozilla.org are:

1. OneTab 2. Unhook 3. Unclutter 4. Violentmonkey

Tampermonkey shows in Add-on manager list in android, but not in addons.mozilla.org!

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by lemper on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:55AM (#37085884)

that OneTab looks nice. will definitely help with my current usage pattern. thanks.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by cubefox on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:16AM (#37085993)

An extension to block video auto play perhaps.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by kikokikokiko on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:35AM (#37086106)

Behindtheoverlay is a little extension that should not be as usefull as it is. I ude it daily, both on mobile and desktop, and I do not use Firefox mobile for this exact same reason.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:42AM (#37087158)

You don't need a special extension to get rid of annoying overlays. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

uBlock Origin also has an "element zapper" feature that lets you temporarily remove overlays that aren't covered by the lists.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by kikokikokiko on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:06PM (#37091829)

One single click, versus at least three. And I use the annoyances lists, but they never catch the overlays I encounter, it's just a niche personal taste kind of thing.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:10PM (#37095551)

Well, the lists are edited manually by humans. You need to report the overlays you encounter for them to be hidden for everybody else.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Sabinus on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:40AM (#37086129)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

So I can read Twitter links without dealing with the login modals.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by ReadCarlBarks on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:35AM (#37087117)

You don't need a special extension for this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by mst on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:14AM (#37087807)

> Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

That's precisely what that extension's doing -for- them when twitter links show up somewhere else.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by Sakos on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:43AM (#37086460)

SingleFile is the single most useful addon that I use (behind uBlock). It lets me download any website as HTML while keeping most of its layout/elements intact.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by pieter_mj on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:41AM (#37088050)

Really a great addon, I've been using it a couple of years already it on mobile using firefox nightly + personal addon collections.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by prmoustache on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:23AM (#37086712)

> so, what do i miss?

multi-containers.

How do you want to separate cookies/identities without that?

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by lemper on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:40AM (#37087549)

I don't. there's only a handful of sites that I regularly visit.

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Re:Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming A... by OrangeMusic on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:11AM (#37119658)

The "I Don't Care About Cookies" extension.

I seriously can't live without it, anytime I'm trying to read a website and a fucking pop-up obscures the text I'm trying to read, I want to throw my device on the floor.

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