Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store Microsoft edge's latest build version 134.0.3124.57, just added a whole new web-store for Android user unlike google.
Extensions are great for adding a tiny bit of functionality to a browsing experience without dedicating an entire app to run in the background. For instance, some users like to use VPNs securely tied in from the browser itself rather than running the full-scale app. |
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/please-at-me/
It works perfectly on Firefox for Android and desktop Android.
Firefox is so awesome, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
It’s very hard given the constraints, but apparently not impossible, since Orion manages to run at least some web extensions.
And a great way to give permission to read and modify all websites you visit to something that should really better be an isolated application.
I would really not consider web extensions an alternative to standalone apps. In my security model, they inhabit the opposite corner.
> some users like to use VPNs securely tied in from the browser itself rather than running the full-scale app
This might be a mistake, for example. A VPN app runs sandboxed on mobile OSes (and many VPN types are supported by OSes natively so there's no need for an app in the first place), so it can't get access to website data (if HTTPS is used), whereas a web extension usually can.
Then don't do that. Give them permission to only read specific sites, or even no access if they don't need it.
Manifest V2 doesn't even support fine-grained permissions like that (they have to statically declare all sites they ever want to access at build time, and users have to accept all of them at install time).
Manifest V3 is better and offers a dynamic API to request more permissions on a per-site basis, but it's still not perfect – for example, Chrome presents the "proxy" permission as "read and change data on all websites", so as a user, I have no idea if a VPN extension just wants the proxy permission, or write permissions to every site I visit.
But you could argue they can make more money by selling information you upload through Firefox. They have permission to sell EVERYTHING!!!
Yes you can turn all this off, but in default mode it is maddening.
I find it ironic that most of those defending edge's default ad infested config as ok because you can turn it off are likely the same people who'd lambast Firefox for having a lot less stuff turned on my default. I control everything in Firefox, no way anyone can say the say for edge, chrome or even safari.
But Firefox Nightly (has tabbed interface on tablet) + ublock origin is the best experience on an Android phone/tablet IMO. Not as fast as Chromium based browsers, but it is worth it for adblocking, block autoplay, extensions for youtube etc.
That would require a submission of all of the source code, so I assume this will never happen.
I would consider Edge if it showed up in FFUpdater. I don't see it there either.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1i86ybn/kiwi_brows...
on Desktop as well
Yes, I'm very impressed by their extension support!
Cool! I didn't know that was an option.
Had I not needed to specifically test Edge on Windows 11, I'd have just pressed and held the power button, then wiped the disk and installed something else if I'd encountered that experience on something I purchased to use for some non-browser-testing productive purpose.
The funny thing is Chrome is actually made by an advertising company, and it's significantly less aggravating, somehow.
When Firefox misbehaves and claims it owns data from users, Firefox can be forked.
Unless Microsoft intends to similarly abuse its users, Edge could be completely opened.
I would only ride a fork of Edge should this not prove true.
Speaking of adware and spyware, doesn't Firefox still have Google as its default search website? They are not Google, but literally selling you to Google, that's like even worse?