Firefox mobile decided to release an update, alright, I'll check it out. Oh, the UI seems a little more polished. Why are some of my extensions incompatible? They've picked "recommended extensions". Great.

Can find no information on when extension support will go back to normal, probably because they're bullshitting around the fact that they never intend to support them. Find a quote somewhere about many extensions are unwieldy to some users, what a load of horseshit. If a user doesn't like an extension they won't use it. No, what they've actually done is a deal with google to prevent cookie deleting and canvas fingerprint blocking and they're neutering the functionality of the tool their users use and feeding them some lame nonsense.

So I go into f-droid (I actually use Fennec) to try to downgrade, and the versions before the update are gone. So I click uninstall instead.

Fuck Mozilla. Fuck firefox. While some naive people refuse to use any chromium based browser and tolerate this bullshit, Firefox is doing more work on behalf of google than any chromium fork does. You're getting swindled. This company is not building tools for you anymore, they're attempting to control your behavior. I will not tolerate this shit and you shouldn't either.
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@mistermonster
For mobile Bromite seems like best option, did you try it?

@nikolal I do use Bromite, however I must have extensions for much of what I do on my browser. I have to be able to block JS selectively, so for most stuff I was using Fennec but now I'm using Kiwi browser more than I was. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

@mistermonster
I only visit less than 10 websites on mobile, so Firefox focus or Bromite do job very well for me, with pihole combined. I'm still using Firefox on desktop and I'm not happy with news that Firefox is on wrong path.

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