Solved Support Extensions
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Even on Android, it is that insecure, @balachandarsmr?
Thanks very much, @balachandarsmr!
Wow, Great, it includes all extensions I want: Violentmonkey and Stylus.
It seems that Iceraven Browser will be very very good for me instead of keeping Firefox 68.11.0!!
I will test it, for sure!Update
I have had some hindering bugs with userscripts on Iceraven so I'm still staying with Firefox 68.11.0, at the moment.
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@jesus2099 said in Support Extensions:
Even on Android, it is that insecure, @balachandarsmr?
Tor browser on android is not secure as in desktop.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox runs as a single process on mobile and has no sandbox beyond the OS sandbox. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. -
Yandex Browser Beta on Android has FULL extension support.
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Now ungoogled chromium supports extension icon in 3 dot menu. Ublock origin works flawlessly. It's open source. Devs can look it's source code
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-android/releases -
@balachandarsmr I am not really good I think.
I installed the extension version from their F-Droid repo but still cannot install extension from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/violentmonkey/jinjaccalgkegednnccohejagnlnfdag -
@jesus2099 enable this flag to always prompt to install
chrome://flags/#extension-mime-request-handling
Restart the browser. Open 3 dot menu. Click desktop site. Visit this url and install violent monkey.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/violentmonkey/jinjaccalgkegednnccohejagnlnfdag -
This is a huge breakthrough, this will make the mobile version even better than ever, I hope to see this implemented soon.
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This is extention patch on chromium
https://github.com/wchen342/chromium-android-extension
Sadly ungoogled chromium doesn't support extension anymore.
The extension support version has been discontinued. The last version is 88.0.4324.182. It will still be available for downloading, but no new version will be released.The extension patches can be found at chromium-android-extension. Anyone interested is welcomed to fork and keeps working on it.
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@balachandarsmr said in Support Extensions:
This is extention patch on chromium
https://github.com/wchen342/chromium-android-extension
Sadly ungoogled chromium doesn't support extension anymore.
The extension support version has been discontinued. The last version is 88.0.4324.182. It will still be available for downloading, but no new version will be released.The extension patches can be found at chromium-android-extension. Anyone interested is welcomed to fork and keeps working on it.
Was there any specific reason given as to why the dev decided to stop the support?
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@mtaki14 i dont know the exact reason. I think the dev dont have time for working on extensions. Because he is single handedly developing his browser.
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Adding extension support on Android isn't the difficult part. Maintaining extension support Chr update after Chr update and not falling behind in the release schedule is most likely why devs give up.
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@Weebsouls Russian Yandex Browser is the best! ))
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As a user of the android snapshot version I would have to be honest & state....yes I would like to be able to have the ability to use at least a few extensions, but since I know that the development team @ vivaldi is pretty limited, I'm grateful to have the browser to utilize at all. As with most other concerns with this browser, if it's significant enough it will for sure get evaluated & if deemed as a good feature it will eventually get added. Now if I could only get a shiny new vivaldi coffee mug to use when I'm enjoying the use of their browser, hint..hint.
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every once in a while I stop by to see if there is an update about having extensions and once again I see it is not even in the pipeline yet, though it remains - and by far - the most voted feature, very disappointing, a browser for our friends, a vast majority of your friends is asking extensions!
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I've taken to using Firefox on Android or Kiwi simply because of extensions, from what is fairly decent about the Vivaldi mobile version the lack of being able to use extensions especially ones like Stylish for fixing ugly and garbage looking websites on mobile. Its a serious disappointment especially for power user browser like this, if you're going to not allow users to use extensions then at least support the features of popular addons.
Frankly it seems sus a solo dev like behind Kiwi can achieve it but the team behind Vivaldi don't... why?
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@Octaviangrozeanu said in Support Extensions:
@Stardust mee to! Also, Ghostery, which is a tracker blocker
Not sure if it's recommended to use uBO with another blocker at the same time:
Note for all browsers
To benefit from uBlock Origin's higher efficiency, it's advised that you don't use other content blockers at the same time (such as Adblock Plus, AdBlock) -
Besides Firefox,only 3 browsers I know support extensions-Kiwi,Yandex and Ungoogled Chromium Extensions,which seem to be all difficult to use because of bugs or terrible designs.
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@ProjectX
And Vivaldi for Windows is great.That is why I am expecting for it here. -
On its own Android version of Vivaldi brings nothing to the table of mobile browsers, yet it does require time to be maintained. Honestly don't even see a point in it if there are no extensions. Sync, maybe, for whoever cares about that, which I don't think is a lot of users. But that's it.
All other mobile features should be deprioritized in favor of this one.