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Firefox on Android used to do this. I switched to Kiwi when they dropped it.
I remember wanting to try out Firefox on Android but not being able to use it with Tampermonkey which was a real bummer. Better late than never, I guess?
One question on my mind is why it took so long. Is Android a harder platform to make extensions available on or something?
You can use tamper monkey now.
Awesome, I won’t need to switch to the desktop version just because I’m missing a few extension.
This sounds huge! This may be a dumb question, but: do extensions on mobile require any special security tools that don't already exist?
Been using Iceraven, although it only supports a handful of extensions such as dark reader and uBlock
Iceraven already has extensions so it's not the first.
i hope mozilla is already working on an iOS version for the EU market ;)
This is the only reason why I keep using Safari on iOS. If Firefox can get extensions working for iOS I’ll switch over the day it’s available.
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.
That's going to change in EU as Apple will be forced to allow side loading apps.
it does rn, it's just a little more effort to get them but it's not hard
I've been using Kiwi browser for ages and it's had extension support the entire time since I quit using Firefox on mobile. I would still be using Firefox if it hadn't just kept randomly not loading pages anymore and requiring a restart, because it did at least support the one extension I can't live without; ublock origin, but the bugs were just too much. I might give Firefox mobile another shot when this new version hits stable release.
