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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (17 children)

So, aside from the ad block everyone loves and I don't have the characters to type, what do we recommend?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Sponsor block for youtube works great, grease monkey for scripts, too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Consent-O-Matic (has to be downloaded from the main website, and not the android sub category)

And what you wish to have other than that depends on your needs.

I myself have an extension to unlock Bing AI on Firefox android.

Google Search Fixer (for when I need a Google service)

TWP - Translate Web Pages

And more.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Web archives Bypass Paywalls Clean ClearURL View Page Source (I'm seriously surprised it's not a basic feature.)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Redirect AMP to HTML if you hate amp like me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NoScript

uBlock Origin

Dark Reader

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

A bit niche, but I love Shinigami Eye. It highlights trans-friendly sites and profiles in green and transphobic ones in red.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Dark reader was already available before this.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I switched to Ff on all devices last week and I have no complaints. Other than email, I'm slowly migrating from all Google products.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Now do iOS. (Yes I know Apple has to release their stranglehold on the browser first.)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.

One of the many reasons I'm so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The Eu has forced them: Digital Markets Act --> alternative app stores.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

iirc apple doesn't allow apps that are able to download and run extra code. I know this was the reason the game mindustry didn't have mod support on iOS. I could be wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://apps.apple.com/en/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200?l=en-GB

WebKit browser, on iOS, with (most) Firefox and Chrome extensions possible.

Y’all are welcome :D (also @AllYourSmurf)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

a long-overdue and very welcome addition to mobile.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Writing from a privacy perspective remember, browser add-ons can potentially make it easier to fingerprint or recognize an individual. But still, I can't help but love this new FF feature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is not available on Android yet right ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also you can put the url bar on the bottom 😍

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's possible for quite some years, good that you've found it though.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I guess time to switch to Android!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bah, no sign of "Save webP as PNG or JPEG" yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

what's wrong with webp? it's a significantly more efficient file format (like 20% less file size for the same quality) and is supported everywhere by now. if anything, the default should be webp for image types that can be both lossy and losslessly compressed

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Lots of platforms, even image editing don't support webp

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Surprisingly not everywhere yet, some messaging apps don't support webp yet

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Hail to the king, baby

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they already support all addons a few years ago, and then limited it to the hand-picked ones?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yes. It was restricted since they moved to web extensions. They removed the restrictions on this release.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

over 450 add-ons

But no Cookie AutoDelete among them. Firefox Nightly is still better

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It is, but only if you go on the main website, and not the android sub category https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

And yet still no tablet support 😭

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