If you use Nightly or Beta you can use pretty much any addon with a few steps: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-now-supports-custom-add-on-collections/
Yep. I switched to Firefox Beta many months ago and haven’t looked back. My needs are pretty minimal, but every extension that I’ve installed seems to work properly. It’s great.
I know that has been an option for some time, but it is not user friendly to make people jump through all these extra steps.
It actually takes less than a minute to do everything. I did it to get Stylus on Firefox Android to style Lemmy. I’ll look into making one for Reddit eventually.
Firefox for iOS is locked into iOS bullshit. It’s basically just a skin for safari.
It’s apple’s fault.
And users for accepting it. But Apple’s users compromise a lot of freedoms in exchange for the benefits they percieve they’re getting. My only concern is many Apple users don’t actually know the compromises they are making as they’re not technically minded.
It used to be worse, before Apple also nerfed the engine for browser apps like this so they would perform worse than Safari
I remember that. Everything but safari was beyond shitty.
Try the browser called Orion, it supports firefox and chrome extensions on iOS.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200
You need to create a collection and then you can use almost any extension (it’s a pain in the ass to setup)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-addonsmozillaorg
Mozilla is so stupid sometimes… It makes it feel like they are trying to discontinue all extensions.
I hope this doesn’t happen but it almost seems like the net is moving in this direction.
They don’t even work properly… Can’t log into Bitwarden because the captcha doesn’t show up
Interesting, I self-host a vaultwarden instance and the firefox add-on for bitwarden is able to talk to it just fine. I wonder if you did the captcha via the browser if the add-on would still attempt to prompt you for it
Isn’t it easier to just use the Bitwarden app for mobile?
Idk, but I’m still annoyed that pressing the search bar at the top hides the tabs button
I’m not sure if Mozilla remembers they have a mobile browser most of the time. lol
I recall reading a while back that they’re planning a massive overhaul with web manifest v3 and that would enable wider add-on support.
I think quality assurance is harder, what with mobile operating systems arbitrarily terminating processes. But Manifest V3 should help here, I believe.
is it possible to get extensions on iOS Firefox?
I havent used iOS in a while so I’m not 100% sure. But as far as I know, Apple force developers to use their Safari tech, so I dont think Firefox addons would actually work from a technical pount of view. I could be wrong though.
