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Firefox on Android to this day does not switch to dark mode automatically https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529

comment by k8sToGo · 2024-08-29 · in Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022)

…disabled in official builds (but forks and custom builds such as some on F-Droid still have it). https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21276

comment by 0x_rs · 2024-05-30 · in What We're Working on in Firefox

…and reimportable. Something that Firefox on Android doesn't support, by the way :facepalm: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/417

comment by g-b-r · 2024-01-20 · in Platform Tilt

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Firefox on Android does not support client certificates

story by quaintdev · 2024-01-09 · 1 comment

It's been that way for years: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20351 I lost hope it and other issues would be fixed and moved to Chromium on Android.

comment by nonbirithm · 2023-12-26 · in Website search hurts my feelings

…changed for three years. Furthermore the insane bugs from which Fenix suffers from its release ( https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731 ) (and make it unbearable) have been left hanging, focusing the few resources on dumb ui…

comment by g-b-r · 2023-11-04 · in Firefox for Android will soon support extensions

…being excited by any other feature. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54653641/app-links-not-w... https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/15202 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809264

comment by snird · 2023-08-11 · in Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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For #19918: Add option to hide the toolbar home button (Firefox For Android)

story by TheBrokenRail · 2023-07-11 · 0 comments

This was sadly deprecated on Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099 It was such a huge loss for me that for at least a year I used the outdated pre-Fenix. Now they still work on Desktop but they just stopped working…

comment by Max_Mustermann · 2023-07-10 · in Firefox address bar

…and I don't understand why they're still developing it instead of shoring up Fennec properly. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551

comment by noirscape · 2023-02-17 · in Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey

…on Android for at least two years now, with the only workaround being use an older Firefox: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20736 then they close the issue and move to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17…

comment by 2h · 2023-02-11 · in Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020)

…have checked before replying. I don't think this is too hard for someone who wants a direct APK https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases Perhaps the complaint is that they are not releasing to competing stores like Amazon? I would…

comment by rezonant · 2023-02-08 · in Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022)

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Firefox Android Requirement of add-on list in China

story by gbil · 2023-02-04 · 0 comments

…browser. Add it to the list of things the old Firefox android browser had that current one doesn't https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1340

comment by joecool1029 · 2023-01-23 · in Tell HN: Outlook webmail on Android requires Chrome or Edge, not Firefox

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Allow the user to set the home page to a URL

story by okasaki · 2023-01-22 · 0 comments

…back ever since. A couple links to the Android Firefox open issues: keyboard shortcuts - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3729 print support - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217 tab bar in tablet mode -…

comment by m4rtink · 2023-01-13 · in Firefox lost ~16M users since last year

A workaround for printing on Android( https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217 )

comment by rsaxvc · 2022-12-26 · in Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

I don't think you can from Firefox directly: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217 So, probably save as PDF, then print PDF.

comment by rsaxvc · 2022-12-26 · in Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

There is no workaround: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546

comment by jck · 2022-12-21 · in Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately

On Android. It is a known issue which Mozilla don't seem to intend to fix: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546

comment by jck · 2022-12-21 · in Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately

…tab handling ([2], basically because I took Firefox out of the equation). 1 https://hnrss.org 2 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20090

comment by morsch · 2022-12-07 · in Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser

…stating the reasons for hiding Addons behind collections for mobile firefox. I searched the MozillaWiki and github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix. Battery Optimization and Performance come to mind, but I'd like to read more into it if somebody…

comment by flas9sd · 2022-10-21 · in Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections

…I couldn't believe my eyes. Do they think this kind of thing will increase their market share? [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551

comment by dataflow · 2022-10-03 · in SingleFile version compatible with Manifest V3

…and it didn't work. There's also a open bug about bookmarklets not working on android Firefox https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2871

comment by jerrygoyal · 2022-09-28 · in Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling

…is "Remote code" to Google. Replace Google with Mozilla, and you still have an accurate statement: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

comment by svnpenn · 2022-09-23 · in Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers

…happen, you have to do hacky hacks involving nightly version to do un-blessed extensions). Yep: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

comment by svnpenn · 2022-08-30 · in AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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Tell HN: Firefox on Android Clear data on exit doesn't delete site data

story by zaat · 2022-08-26 · 2 comments

…in response to user feedback is eroding what remains of their user base. - GitHub issue: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20736 - Mozilla Connect idea: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/expand-add-on-compatibi... TFA…

comment by commoner · 2022-08-24 · in How Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection and container extensions work together

…opening local HTML files, without them giving a clear reason why, and I stopped using it. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546

comment by alok-g · 2022-08-18 · in Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

…UI elements, some refactoring, almost nothing else. Go check its revision history all you want: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/commits/main Mozilla has seemingly totally given up on it. It's incredibly sad.

comment by itvision · 2022-06-28 · in Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)

…reader mode all the more. There don't seem to be any add-ons. Overall, not entirely convincing. 1. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20012#issueco...

comment by morsch · 2022-06-09 · in Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser

…it's functionality has been broken for 3 years now, with no sort of interest in fixing it in sight. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1523 It's exactly this type of behaviour that Firefox doesn't seem concerned with addressing.

comment by mr_woozy · 2022-05-29 · in Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

…killed add-ons, similar to Chrome. You can only install custom addons if you register with Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

comment by svnpenn · 2022-05-05 · in Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100

Supported since v92 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19785

comment by kbrosnan · 2022-04-26 · in WebAuthn Browser Support

…priority things to work on. So I'm looking for suggestions to take advantage of my laptop. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/18565

comment by 2143 · 2022-04-14 · in Ask HN: Ideas to Use M1s Power

I was thinking about https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix - bunch of Kotlin there.

comment by blinkingled · 2022-03-20 · in How much Rust in Firefox?

For anyone reading this. Don't visit the above link, just use older version instead: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647 To anyone out of the loop, Firefox Android has basically killed add-ons, similar to Chrome. This is…

comment by svnpenn · 2022-03-14 · in Vanced has been discontinued

…every kind of battery/memory etc. "optimization" by Android... Here's the issue itself on GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731

comment by utucuro · 2022-02-16 · in Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

…development activity is hidden away in private documents on Google Docs. They are not concerned. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5410

comment by dessant · 2022-02-11 · in Privacy preserving attribution for advertising

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Improve home screen logic, always associate Home screen with an actual tab

story by morsch · 2022-01-30 · 0 comments

…browser to display saved pages [2]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/ [2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546

comment by gildas · 2022-01-11 · in Firefox 96

…by 2021/1/11 See issues #3710 #3972 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1309515 From https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3710 it appears the (manually-entered "view-source" option) was restored by build 92.1.1, in a…

comment by dredmorbius · 2022-01-09 · in DuckDuckGo Traffic

…Firefox have on Android[2]. [1] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/issues/... [2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731

comment by mmwelt · 2022-01-05 · in Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options

There is a bug report for that. It's not been moving at all since it was opened https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2371

comment by pmontra · 2021-12-18 · in Vibration API

…I linked to it, including one that I opened myself [1]. My own issue was closed as wont fix. 1. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

comment by svnpenn · 2021-12-10 · in Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

…Firefox is (marginally) better than Chrome, but they are also pulling some of the same bullshit: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20736

comment by svnpenn · 2021-12-10 · in Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

…is just a broken, miserable experience. (I mostly blame FF for this, because it used to be great) https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9773

comment by agolliver · 2021-11-23 · in End of Support for Firefox Lockwise

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Keyboard Shortcuts (2019)

story by dredmorbius · 2021-10-25 · 0 comments

Still doesn't work on Firefox Mobile: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/4343

comment by p1mrx · 2021-10-10 · in Lots to See in Firefox 93

…at all in its official relases. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ [2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/11308 (closed without adequate resolution in https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14034…

comment by commoner · 2021-09-23 · in Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change