Firefox for android ftw

I only have two extensions...

... and yet, that alone makes me loathe any other mobile browser that doesn't support them.

I was using a friend's phone for checking something online the other day, and I was horrified at how much screen real estate was wasted on ads. I've become far too used to having adblock on mobile, and I had forgotten how bad it can be.
I always find it jarring, because I'm so surprised that people put up with it and just accept it as normal. I get that I am an extreme outlier when it comes to my willingness to tinker and also my stubbornness that makes me extremely willing to spend a heckton of time to solve problems that are annoying me, but for many people, switching to a different browser and using uBlock would be trivially easy, but they just don't, even if they know that's an option. I don't understand the mindset that leads to it.
- The "A" is for "apathy".
"Video Background Play Fix" is also nice if you are a YouTube user. Background playing of Videos without the need for Premium.
Consent-O-Matic is nice too, clicks through cookie popups automatically
JShelter and uBlock Origin here 🫡
- ToXCancel is nice too sometimes

Im shocked they haven't banned this.

For a short time Firefox mobile got rid of extensions and man I have not felt so betrayed by a corporation as I did seeing those "update"s.

I swear Mozilla always does its best to ruin any good brand image they have.

It's gotta be a secret term to their default google search contract or something.

Bad time for Firefox.
Atleast they brought back Extensions shortly

And yet the GrapheneOS people recommend their own "Vanadium" hardened version of Chromium instead, for reasons I don't understand.

It is explained here https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
They don't explicitly mention Firefox but:
"Chromium-based browsers like Vanadium provide the strongest sandbox implementation, leagues ahead of the alternatives. "
and
"Chromium has decent exploit mitigations, unlike the available alternatives. "
Since I myself lack the knowledge and skills to judge this, I have to trust the word of the developers.
Edit, correction. They do mention Firefox
"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface."
- Merely asserting something and explaining it to my satisfaction (as a developer myself) are two different things. I don't want to have to read through both codebases myself, but I would have liked the Graphene OS devs to cite some examples to prove their point.
- And the complete inability to block ads is just a non issue. Ok.

It’s a shame they’ve trashed Firefox on iOS. Doing anything involving the home page takes over a second. Closing a tab and reshowing the Home Screen, even just showing the Home Screen without closing a tab takes ages.

they’ve trashed
Maybe blame your shitty iPhone that forces every browser to use Webkit instead of Mozilla/Firefox.
Apple is the one blocking you from having Firefox. Webkit with a different skin is all you ever had to begin with, because apple is a huge bag of cocks
Just stick with safari. All IOS web browsers only use WebKit anyway. You can use extensions on safari like uBlock Lite or AdGuard. Works well for me.
I've been using Brave on iOS. I haven't looked into extensions but it has an adblock built-in, and it seems to run pretty well.
- Brave is owned by a horrible dude. I’d recommend Orion by Kagi instead. It supports desktop extensions for both Chromium and Firefox. The ones I use at least function perfectly fine.
- Both are just Safari reskinned, right? Or did that change?
Orion on iOS will let you use uBlock and other extensions. It’s not perfect but it’s the best I’ve found

This alone is why it's my main mobile browser but man they could really improve the UI. it's very sluggish with animations and components that aren't material for no good reason. the browser itself is also a bit laggy but i can excuse the page rendering.

it's probably impossible to meaningfully implement, but if I could make a userChrome.css for the mobile app I would definitely enjoy it more

If i am not mistaken google say "it's for stability" Stability my ass, if i want my browser being unstable with extensions then i'il do it, fuck google.

Fuck chrome.

laughs in AdGuard

Still love the 🦊 though.

With uBlock you can remove cosmetics and some page elements, the best setup is nextdns/pihole/adguard + uBlock origin

I just installed GrapheneOS on my pixel 9 this weekend, and was surprised the default Vanadium browser doesn't have Google AdSense ripped out or an ad-blocker as default.

(To verify, try visiting slashdot.org with Vanadium, vs. Iron Fox with uBlock Origin).

As a result, I set IronFox to my default browser and am loving it. Why does GrapheneOS not have an ad-blocking solution in the default build? Seems like a big feature they could brag about.

I wish the full page translation works for Taiwan mandarin. It can do China-nese but not Taiwanese or HKnese.

Been using Cromite as my daily driver browser. It doesn't allow "real" extensions, but I guess devs built in Adblock Plus, which is really neat.

Def wish I could have Old Reddit Redirect and my dark reader apps on it tho. Keep a Firefox browser around primarily for that.

There's a native dark mode in Cromite. Go to about:flags The setting is Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and it has a few different settings to try.
...And while I love dark reader, it's quite chonky, even on desktop.
As for old Reddit, I think you can edit host files on android?
- FYI you can't edit the hosts file on Android without root
- "I think you can edit host files on android?"
  Hadn't considered this as a possibility. Thanks for mentioning it — I'll have a look into it when I get a chance to. Even if it doesn't end up being possible, it sounds worth looking into.
- Orly??? I'll def need to look up the hosts file bit.

What's interesting is that Google is developing a special version of chrome on Android that supports extensions

https://www.androidauthority.com/try-new-chrome-for-android-with-extensions-3569268/

After they neutered extensions with manifest v3, why even bother?
But it's kinda useless because it doesn't support the most important extension: uBlock Origin.
- It did work tho? I was able to install ubock origin and it worked fine