Google is working on a new version of Chrome for Android that supports browser extensions, but it might not be available for mobile devices.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Kiwi Browser has offered an Android build of Chromium that will install and attempt to run any extension available for desktop Chrome. Most of them work.

    Firefox also recently regained reasonable extension support on Android, which was a slow and frustrating process for those of us who had used it before.

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    2 months ago

    I don’t know why to took so long for any of the major browsers to support extension on mobile

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      2 months ago

      Extension developer information from Firefox explains why it was necessary to make some technical changes. What they’ve never explained to my satisfaction is why they took a cautious, curated approach to it reminiscent of Apple.

      The typical approach of a large open source project is to put a “here there be dragons” sign on unstable features and let anyone who wishes to use them anyway do so at their own risk, and that’s the approach I prefer.

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        2 months ago

        Firefox used to allow a lot more extensions though, until they switched to Fenix UI and restricted them to a selected few. And then they expanded the support again.