Firefox on Android should be opened up entirely. Right now I use Mull which is mostly free
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
151 points (99.3% liked)
Firefox
17154 readers
62 users here now
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Unless I am misunderstanding you, it is, on Dec 14.
Extensions just have to specify they are compatible.
That is for stable. Nightly does it for month allready. You just browse all those extensions and Install button is there.
Yeah, I'm aware. My fault for not specifying I was talking about stable.
I was talking about the source code for the browser
It is opensource. The only thing that aren't are some required Google Play libraries for notifications and the EME - Firefox can't make those open as it doesn't control them.
That's not enough. I want something that doesn't have any non-free software, period. It would be one think if it was just a matter of removing some notification libraries but the proprietary software is so tightly integrated that even Mull isn't completely free
So I can run uBlock origin on Firefox for Android? That'd be great. On desktop I am running LibreWolf. I hope one day I can run such Firefox versions on Android.
Firefox for android has supported ublock origin for ages
It does? thanks for letting me know, was not aware of this. I've been using DuckDuckGo privacy browser because I like to rely on the F-droid app store and sadly Firefox is not available there.
If you install fennec from f-droid it's the same thing as Firefox and provided by Mozilla.
Mull is an other good option, and available from f-droid.
Mull is a (privacy tuned) fork of Firefox for Android, supports ublock origin and is on F-Droid. I've used it for a long time. Highly recommended.
How many extensions Firefox will handle without things get slow? I use only 3 now 🤷♂️
that depends entirely on which extensions are enabled
Definitely, along with the specs of your phone.
Also, with mv3 extensions, the extensions that are not actively doing some work are not really "running" in the first place but are just waiting for some event to happen that they have previously told Firefox to inform them about, but there isn't any persistent execution context that is constantly running.
I believe one reason why extension support was not-fully enabled earlier was because mv2 extensions required persistent background context for each extension and that could cause issues if Android just decided to kill that process. But with mv3 the extensions are required to be able to be suspended and then woken up on demand.
Yup, most well written extensions will be basically free on modern hardware, even a phone.
...unfortunately well written code is rare in the modern world.
This should be fun :)