For me It’s music discovery. Trying to find a particular net radio manually throughout the web that fills your criteria of music is obviously hard so this extension makes it easier to browse.
Other than that I use the browser for work and leisure so I end up browsing alot, since the browser is on most of the time I can turn on the radio and play faster from the extension instead of browsing to the dedicated website or swap to a different app for the same function. You can make the argument that a bookmark would work just as well but you can do it in the add-on too and make a library list of them that you can press the next button to change to a different one.
foobaz@lemmy.world
on 16 Dec 2023 10:59
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Yes as a bloated phone UI. It doesn’t support tabs which almost every other browser does.
Of course it can run in a tablet but it’s not a great use experience
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Dec 2023 18:17
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it never occurred to me that I might want a different UI on my tablet. I also never used Chrome or any other browser on my tablet.
hellequin67@lemm.ee
on 15 Dec 2023 18:24
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My tablet is my laptop replacement so I tend to use it on the same way with a mouse and keyboard and want AC close to laptop functionality as possible, pretty much all other browsers have that functionality, except firefox.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Dec 2023 21:24
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this is my first android tablet. my first “internet tablet” was the n810, and i did’nt get an android until around 2018, unless you count the blackberry q20
Contend6248@feddit.de
on 15 Dec 2023 22:00
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Iceraven has it
kellyaster@kbin.social
on 15 Dec 2023 13:59
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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
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Dec 2023 16:39
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Surprisingly not everywhere yet, some messaging apps don’t support webp yet
Interstellar_1@pawb.social
on 15 Dec 2023 16:54
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Lots of platforms, even image editing don’t support webp
I haven’t come across a single image or video editor that doesn’t support webp nowadays. I use paint.net, krita, aseprite, inkscape, ibis paint x, opentoonz, and davinci resolve, plus libreoffice if you count that, they all support importing/exporting and editing webp just as any other image file format. I’m pretty sure GIMP and Photoshop do too but I don’t use them so I can’t say for sure
I feel like a majority of people have to go out of their way to make webp an inconvenience in the modern day.
Besides, if it for some reason doesn’t work in a specific situation you need it you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it. But I can guess most people don’t actually face a situation like that.
mememuseum@lemmy.world
on 15 Dec 2023 18:24
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GIMP supports WebP now.
kellyaster@kbin.social
on 15 Dec 2023 18:51
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you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it
Thank you for the suggestion, but that's not how it works. Changing a file's extension doesn't change the file type; it just changes the name.
When I take an image file and change its extension from webp to png it converts the binary data, so I imagine your OS’ default file manager would do that too. Maybe not tho.
kellyaster@kbin.social
on 15 Dec 2023 19:59
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What OS & version are you using that automatically converts file types when you change the filename via the default file manager interface? I have never heard of this function before.
Interstellar_1@pawb.social
on 15 Dec 2023 23:19
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Some file managers on linux can do this, but it’s definitely not a default on most.
Idk why you’re being downvoted. I’ve tried Orion browser and it really does work. I assumed extensions like that would go against Apple’s App Store policies but they’ve seemed to make it works so far.
notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Dec 2023 16:42
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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
Contend6248@feddit.de
on 15 Dec 2023 21:57
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That’s possible for quite some years, good that you’ve found it though.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
on 17 Dec 2023 03:07
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Isn’t that the default location when you first install? I remember always having to move it back to the top where it belongs.
Substance_P@lemmy.world
on 15 Dec 2023 21:38
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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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
on 15 Dec 2023 23:21
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Matriks404@lemmy.world
on 16 Dec 2023 21:00
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When will they fix their mobile version though? As much as I want to use Firefox as much as possible, some websites just refuse to open in mobile Firefox, or not work properly. I have even made a simple website with fixed element on the bottom of the page, and it jumps like crazy when scrolling for whatever reason.
zipfelwurster@feddit.de
on 16 Dec 2023 21:08
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I believe it’s because firefox’s UI is placed on the bottom of the screen per default. To account for that, I believe they adjust the viewport’s height to either exclude the bottom of the screen (when the symbol bar is displayed) or include it (when you scroll down and the symbol bar is hidden).
Because they use a slide-out animation based on scrolling within the web page, the viewport changes a million times in height and causes elements fixed to the bottom of the viewport to jump and adjust a lot, causing weird behavior. And nobody tests for that.
All of thse are my assumptions by the way, please test for yourself, I might well be wrong.
If it really bothers you, try placing the symbol bar above and see if it works. It’s in the settings.
Matriks404@lemmy.world
on 17 Dec 2023 11:45
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My UI was actually on the top, and by changing settings it looks like it’s actually other way around. When UI is on the bottom the fixed element on page moves semi-smoothly (there is still a gap during animation), but when UI is on the top it is fucked up completely. When scrolling down the fixed element also scrolls down for a bit before appearing where it should be, and when scrolling up the reverse happens. So it looks like they didn’t account for that users actually use UI on the top and that it can affect fixed elements on the bottom of the page or it’s just bugged because they don’t test their stuff. I guess I need to send a bug report.
Nothing. If Mozilla claims to love OSS, then why haven’t they released it on the F-Droid Store?
planish@sh.itjust.works
on 17 Dec 2023 03:59
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Because to put a build in F-Droid you need to write a build script to build the whole app from source on F-Droid’s VMs. You can’t, for example, fetch binary dependencies from Maven. You need to build them from source as part of your build process.
Android Firefox fetches a bunch of stuff from Maven as part of its build, some of which is proprietary libraries from Google to e.g. talk to Google Play Services or to Google’s trusted-hardware stuff, and some of which is the whole Gecko C++ source tree. Mozilla doesn’t want to pay their people to maintain two separate build systems for Firefox, one of which has to jump through a bunch of hoops.
threaded - newest
a long-overdue and very welcome addition to mobile.
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.
I advice using protonmail for decent privacy (e-mail is inherently not a really private way of communicating but proton is still your best bet)
I’m not changing my email after 15 years.
I also endorse and recommend proton for de-googling.
So, aside from the ad block everyone loves and I don’t have the characters to type, what do we recommend?
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.
Sponsor block for youtube works great, grease monkey for scripts, too
Web archives Bypass Paywalls Clean ClearURL View Page Source (I’m seriously surprised it’s not a basic feature.)
addons.mozilla.org/…/javascript-restrictor/
tampermonkey
I heard violentmonkey was an opensource alternative to that.
Redirect AMP to HTML if you hate amp like me
CanvasBlocker.
divestos.org/pages/browsers the recommended changes from default settings section should have everything you need to know
Dark reader
Dark reader is amazing but I have seen a noticeable impact on page load times from time to time.
Not only load time, some sites have really bad performance with it, i just stop using the handful i’ve come across.
Not having dark mode implemented and having trash code is a good reason to stop being used.
Dark reader was already available before this.
A bit niche, but I love Shinigami Eye. It highlights trans-friendly sites and profiles in green and transphobic ones in red.
One Tab
Web Archives
Worldwide Radio
Are some absolute musts for me.
I heared people love worldwide-radio. What’s so cool about it? And why as a browser plugin? This could be a stand-alone app or website.
For me It’s music discovery. Trying to find a particular net radio manually throughout the web that fills your criteria of music is obviously hard so this extension makes it easier to browse.
Other than that I use the browser for work and leisure so I end up browsing alot, since the browser is on most of the time I can turn on the radio and play faster from the extension instead of browsing to the dedicated website or swap to a different app for the same function. You can make the argument that a bookmark would work just as well but you can do it in the add-on too and make a library list of them that you can press the next button to change to a different one.
NoScript
uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
Simple Gesture. Now i don’t have to go through a ton of menus or aim tiny UI elements for a simple action. I use similar addon on desktop as well.
Dark reader
I’m waiting for Containers
But no Cookie AutoDelete among them. Firefox Nightly is still better
<img alt="" src="https://i.ibb.co/LrY2YpM/Resized-Image-2023-12-15-14-55-16-2582.png">
This is on mobile?
Do desktops normally have that screen ratio?
seriously… imagine seeing this screenshot and being confused about which type of device it might have originated from.
It could be desktop
LOL
There is no notification bar on the screenshot so there is no real indicator for it being a mobile screenshot.
Back then when I still worked at a radio station, the technician would always have one monitor with a similar orientation.
L O L
Yes it’s easier to read and display lists with this orientation. So the radio technician would have the music and jingle list open like that
Not with that attitude!
Gently rotates monitor and increases zoom level to 400%
It is, but only if you go on the main website, and not the android sub category addons.mozilla.org/fr/…/cookie-autodelete/
But then that is for desktop Firefox, not mobile. Right?
It will allow you to add it to mobile firefox it seems, maybe it just didn’t get categorized correctly?
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/cookie-autodelete/
And yet still no tablet support 😭
what? i run it on my tab a7.
Yes as a bloated phone UI. It doesn’t support tabs which almost every other browser does.
Of course it can run in a tablet but it’s not a great use experience
it never occurred to me that I might want a different UI on my tablet. I also never used Chrome or any other browser on my tablet.
My tablet is my laptop replacement so I tend to use it on the same way with a mouse and keyboard and want AC close to laptop functionality as possible, pretty much all other browsers have that functionality, except firefox.
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this is my first android tablet. my first “internet tablet” was the n810, and i did’nt get an android until around 2018, unless you count the blackberry q20
Iceraven has it
Bah, no sign of "Save webP as PNG or JPEG" yet.
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
Surprisingly not everywhere yet, some messaging apps don’t support webp yet
Lots of platforms, even image editing don’t support webp
I haven’t come across a single image or video editor that doesn’t support webp nowadays. I use paint.net, krita, aseprite, inkscape, ibis paint x, opentoonz, and davinci resolve, plus libreoffice if you count that, they all support importing/exporting and editing webp just as any other image file format. I’m pretty sure GIMP and Photoshop do too but I don’t use them so I can’t say for sure
I feel like a majority of people have to go out of their way to make webp an inconvenience in the modern day.
Besides, if it for some reason doesn’t work in a specific situation you need it you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it. But I can guess most people don’t actually face a situation like that.
GIMP supports WebP now.
Thank you for the suggestion, but that's not how it works. Changing a file's extension doesn't change the file type; it just changes the name.
When I take an image file and change its extension from webp to png it converts the binary data, so I imagine your OS’ default file manager would do that too. Maybe not tho.
What OS & version are you using that automatically converts file types when you change the filename via the default file manager interface? I have never heard of this function before.
Some file managers on linux can do this, but it’s definitely not a default on most.
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Holup
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Now do iOS. (Yes I know Apple has to release their stranglehold on the browser first.)
This is a stupid argument. I have seen Orion browser support BOTH Firefox and chrome extensions right now so why cant Firefox do own extensions?
I don’t think there’s Firefox on iOS because it would have to be Safari.
There is Firefox for iOS. It uses WebKit like every other browser.
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Idk why you’re being downvoted. I’ve tried Orion browser and it really does work. I assumed extensions like that would go against Apple’s App Store policies but they’ve seemed to make it works so far.
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
apps.apple.com/en/app/…/id1484498200?l=en-GB
WebKit browser, on iOS, with (most) Firefox and Chrome extensions possible.
Y’all are welcome :D (also @AllYourSmurf)
Kagi again! Those folks are good to us
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
The Eu has forced them: Digital Markets Act --> alternative app stores.
But browsers aren’t app stores?
Just put the browser in an alternative app store then 😎
Where do you install browsers from?
On iOS? I don’t. I guess it shows.
I thought the EU already forced them under the Digital Markets Act to allow alternative browser engines outside of Webkit on iOS.
Likely will happen whenever Apple starts to allow sideloading, probably next year at around March.
Source: readwrite.com/apples-attempt-to-dodge-eu-digital-…
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I guess time to switch to Android!
Also you can put the url bar on the bottom 😍
That’s not new, though.
Wish you could do it in Firefox Focus.
That’s possible for quite some years, good that you’ve found it though.
Isn’t that the default location when you first install? I remember always having to move it back to the top where it belongs.
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.
Remember to use containers for everything
addons.mozilla.org/…/multi-account-containers/
This is not available on Android yet right ?
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That’s unfortunate
Thanks!!
Hail to the king, baby
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Where do it lack of add-on? I’m on 120.1.0 and have 501 add-ons.
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When will they fix their mobile version though? As much as I want to use Firefox as much as possible, some websites just refuse to open in mobile Firefox, or not work properly. I have even made a simple website with fixed element on the bottom of the page, and it jumps like crazy when scrolling for whatever reason.
I believe it’s because firefox’s UI is placed on the bottom of the screen per default. To account for that, I believe they adjust the viewport’s height to either exclude the bottom of the screen (when the symbol bar is displayed) or include it (when you scroll down and the symbol bar is hidden).
Because they use a slide-out animation based on scrolling within the web page, the viewport changes a million times in height and causes elements fixed to the bottom of the viewport to jump and adjust a lot, causing weird behavior. And nobody tests for that.
All of thse are my assumptions by the way, please test for yourself, I might well be wrong.
If it really bothers you, try placing the symbol bar above and see if it works. It’s in the settings.
My UI was actually on the top, and by changing settings it looks like it’s actually other way around. When UI is on the bottom the fixed element on page moves semi-smoothly (there is still a gap during animation), but when UI is on the top it is fucked up completely. When scrolling down the fixed element also scrolls down for a bit before appearing where it should be, and when scrolling up the reverse happens. So it looks like they didn’t account for that users actually use UI on the top and that it can affect fixed elements on the bottom of the page or it’s just bugged because they don’t test their stuff. I guess I need to send a bug report.
Edit: This bug seems to be at least 3 years old: github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/16264
Edit 2: There’s actually a (I think) relevant issue on bugzilla: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797964
Ah, interesting. Well, if you create a bug report, post the link here and I’ll vote it up for visibility :)
Now, when will Firefox be on the F-Droid Store? (By Mozilla, no one else)
What’s your problem with the Fennec?
Nothing. If Mozilla claims to love OSS, then why haven’t they released it on the F-Droid Store?
Because to put a build in F-Droid you need to write a build script to build the whole app from source on F-Droid’s VMs. You can’t, for example, fetch binary dependencies from Maven. You need to build them from source as part of your build process.
Android Firefox fetches a bunch of stuff from Maven as part of its build, some of which is proprietary libraries from Google to e.g. talk to Google Play Services or to Google’s trusted-hardware stuff, and some of which is the whole Gecko C++ source tree. Mozilla doesn’t want to pay their people to maintain two separate build systems for Firefox, one of which has to jump through a bunch of hoops.
Then it just shows that they don’t “love OSS” as much as they say they do.
I think it includes proprietary stuff so they can’t
Mozilla™