I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.
Firefox non-beta
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Mull is a Firefox hardened browser that works perfectly out of the box.
I couldn’t download files from a site I use because they apparently remove the referral information from requests even when you’re navigating inside the same site (doesn’t bring much privacy because anyone looking at the logs of that site can see the same IP moving from one page to the other).
Still a good browser, but like other projects that try to bring the Tor Browser changes to the normal web, it can break a few things.
What’s wrong with Firefox???
Mostly can’t sign in to lemmy.world for some reason but otherwise I’d some change for a bit.
I don’t believe that’s a Firefox issue, unless it’s a problem specifically with the beta.
Maybe try Jerboa for Lemmy?
I think brave is pretty alright. Yes the crypto stuff is hella cringe and its chromium based but it works like charm.
Using Kiwi because it supports Twitter control panel and old reddit redirect extensions.
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Well, kiwibrowser/src isn’t updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It’s the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi’s reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don’t prefer, it’s just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
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The dev must read this thread. I just got a Kiwi update via FFUpdater app. 😎
Well. Thanks for the info. Uninstalling
Edit: I added few add-ons to my collection.but I’m unable to add it to my Android. What could be the issue?
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Here’s what I did:
- created a new collection and added few addons
- copied the collection id from the URL
- opened Firefox nightly and enabled custom collection menu
- input the collection id
- Firefox quits
- when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”
edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now. Thank you for your help! :)
when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now.
I’m getting this same error. Added the collection ID and the name where?
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It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.
I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡
I find Kiwi Browser essential. It’s one of the only ones that you can install chrome extensions onto.
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Thanks for your desktop addon guide. If there’s a way to manually install .xpis from, say, github, I’m in! 👍
I’ve been trying to follow your guide for an hour now–but I’m not getting access to any add-ons but the “compatible” ones. For example, when I search for ‘Cookiebro’, the only two choices it shows me are Ghostery and uBlock Origin.
I believe that’s an outdated Github link. The project moved here with releases here. The search engine stuff has always seemed like a non-issue to me. I run both Fennec and Kiwi but the latter gives me a true black UI and support for fully side-loaded addons (not just those already on the Firefox website).
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Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it’s chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
It’s worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don’t test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla’s web engine instead of Google’s
there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support
I’d love some examples!
Understandable! I know Firefox nightly and fennec, the f-droid compiled version of Firefox both have the ability to use any Firefox extensions, though setting it up is a little more work than one might need to expect. You have to first create an extension group or category on desktop (I dont remember exactly what Firefox calls it) and then you can load that group of extensions as a custom supported list of extensions on your mobile devices. Its not very technical, just requires setting up the group on your desktop first.
There may be other forks that have full extension support, and I’m kinda thinking there are, but those are the two I’m thinking of off the top of my head. But if you look up the forks of Firefox for android/mobile, I’d guess that most or all of them probably have extension support in the same way.
Otherwise, the official app has a short list of extensions that mozilla has tested that you can enable or disable, including ublock origin :)
Hope this helps!
Edit: the extension groups are referred to as " collections" so thats the option you’d be looking for on desktop. Here’s a handy link on setting it up from Mozilla :) it should be the same no matter which version/fork of firefox you’re looking to enable custom extensions on!
Even though I’m quite eager to try new softwares, for browser I usually return back to Firefox or brave browser.
Only recently when I tried Vivaldi browser, I don’t feel the urge to return to Firefox/brave.
