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Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year
(blog.mozilla.org)
Iceraven already has extensions so it's not the first.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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i hope mozilla is already working on an iOS version for the EU market ;)
I don't see how they would, since ios Firefox doesn't use the same rendering engine it uses on other platforms, Gecko. Instead it has to use Safari, just like any other browser on there.
Duplicating support for all existing extensions would be pretty much impossible if you don't control the rendering engine.
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Does this mean that the storage API will finally be available on mobile? At the moment this is probably my biggest annoyance since I have to manually transfer allow lists for various extensions across desktop and mobile.
Not saying it’s a better implementation, but Safari already does this.
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Doesn't it already support them ?
~~edit: yes it already supports them, but it seems that now there will be more focus on mobile ~~ edit3: as pointed by the comment below, only on nightly and certain forks
edit2: also they forgot about kiwi, but then it's not a major browser (and is it still maintained ?). still would've been cool if they corrected this
This article was weird for me also I have all my extension already installed like bitwarden for passwords and all kind of adblockers and scriptblockers
Yeah, kiwi is still supported and got an UI update a month ago. But it's chromium based if remember correctly.
oh I didn't know, pretty cool
at least both chromium and Firefox get a version with add ons
Nightly versions and Fennec.
Mull too