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1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to explore new creative possibilities for mobile browser customization.

What are some of your favorite new Firefox for Android extensions?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ublock origin is the best

I do wish Mozilla would remove the proprietary parts of Firefox though

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can you list some of those, I'm curious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

DRM plugin and all the built-in cloud stuff is proprietary on the server side

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

(the sync can actually be self-hosted and is OSS, the DRM is third-party and proprietary)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, that's not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.

The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.

They could OSS their server side code ofc, that'd be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don't really blame them on that one tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I couldn't find a list but here is the source for mull

https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Which parts of Firefox ares proprietary?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Try Fennec browser, literally Firefox with proprietary parts removed and with access to about:config. Can be found in Fdroid

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I use Mull

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

+1 for fennec

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Try fennec .