Solved Support Extensions
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@BoneTone, true, each one needs specific functions and there will always be those that the browser does not have. On the mobile personally I would be satisfied to be able to add blocking lists, as on the PC. By its very nature, the functionalities in the mobile will always be more limited.
But as I said before, Vivaldi already includes many functions that make 80% of Store extensions obsolete.
Of course, there are still extensions that need to be supplied by an extension, such as the uMatrix, Trace or Privacy Badger, among others, but I think that these functions may be included in the future as well.
Another separate thing is in the case of a more professional use of the browser it is possible to add functionalities or extensions that can fully satisfy these needs. An example is the screenshot tool that Vivaldi has, it is good that it has it and avoids having to install corresponding extensions, but neither one nor the other can compete even remotely with a desktop application, such as ShareX.
The same also happens with other extensions of the Store, they will always remain in a only basic functionality compared to corresponding applications.
For this reason I think of moving in a direction that can make us independent from the Chrome Store, perhaps with its own repository with the extensions that may still be needed, or making it possible to add them from GitHub or others, as it is possible in Vivaldi PC. -
@Catweazle It doesn't feel like "modern browsers" will include user scripts and user stylesheets support, any more, like genuine Opera used to.
Extensions (Violentmonkey, Geasemonkey, Tampermonkey, Stylus, etc.) are required for this.
Such extensions that are adding themselves thousands of scripts that are like extensions for websites.And extensions can provide pretty niche features.
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@jesus2099 , in principle any FOSS resource can be included, the question is whether it is reasonable to do so.
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@Catweazle I don't understand you're reply but what I meant is that, no, browser integrated features will never cover the infinity of what you can get with extensions.
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Bump.
We still do not know if the extensions are planned? There are 3 browsers that already have them: Kiwi, Firefox, Brave (it is coming soon for Brave)
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@Furax31 said in Support Extensions:
There are 3 browsers that already have them: Kiwi, Firefox, Brave (it is coming soon for Brave)
You may want to deactivate auto-update for Firefox for Android in the Play Store as there are only a few extensions/add-ons (including uBlock) supported now in their new version 79.
If you stay in version 68, you can still use Violentmonkey, Stylus and all extensions.
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@jesus2099 said in Support Extensions:
If you stay in version 68, ...
... you won't be picking up any bug fixes which can (will) leave your browser & system exposed to critical security flaws. One must consider if the convenience of whatever unsupported extension is worth the risk.
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Would just like to add my support for full extensions support. It'd be a no-brainer move to Vivaldi on Android at that point for me - but until then it's really just another mobile chromium skin.
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it is been nearly two years since this request started and there is browsers like Kiwi browser and Firefox browser which achieved this already , Why we are so late ?
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@EpicMaker , it is true that Kiwi supports extensions, but not very well and it is not without problems when installing them. It is one of the reasons why I have left it as a second
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@EpicMaker dude, Vivaldi Android was only released less than 4 months ago. The beta version wasn't even out 2 years ago. So while this thread may be that old, the browser itself isn't. Firefox has enormous resources at its disposal in comparison to Vivaldi, so expecting Vivaldi to develop at a similar pace is not managing your expectations well. Kiwi sat on an ancient version of Chromium for the better part of a year because it wouldn't work with an up-to-date version. I also wouldn't use that as an example of good product development. I'll deal without my favorite extensions before I choose to use an insecure browser.
It's a very small dev team that builds Vivaldi. Yet they've pretty much always released stable software. I was very impressed with the beta version of Vivaldi Android in that respect -- some novel features and a fairly bug free beta. You just gotta exercise some patience, but if past results are any indicator of future performance, that patience will be rewarded. It took some time for Vivaldi Android to become publicly available; but when it did, it was already good enough to become my daily driver on my phone.
But yeah, Vivaldi Android was released on April 22, 2020, not 2 years ago.
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Since Firefox fucked bookmarks Vivaldi is my only hope.
But I'm between a rock and a hard place
Use the god awful firefox but have ublock origin. Or use Vivaldi and be stuck with their awful pseudo blocker -
@m-e You can use UBO in Vivaldi...
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@m-e said in Support Extensions:
awful pseudo blocker
The UI may not be as polished as UBO, but you can add all the same filter lists you use in UBO to Vivaldi's native blocker. I've even exported my custom filters and added those to Vivaldi Android. In terms of functionality, "awful" doesn't really seem to be a fitting description.
Of course, personally, I still am waiting patiently for extension support, as uMatrix is an important part of my blocking toolkit, and no filter-based blocker replicates its functionality. But at least Vivaldi provides this, which most browsers don't, and it certainly alleviated my ad & tracker woes to a reasonable extent; enough that using Firefox isn't even a consideration.
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I find to my horror that videos autoplay, with no setting or extension to disable that. I wish only for the ability to block ads and autoplay, and to have new tabs open in a home page of my choosing (a custom HTML bookmark file). Vivaldi manages the tabs fine but fails on extensions.
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Hi, when all need this why the request has only 2 votes since June (except mine).
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Support Extensions:
Hi, when all need this why the request has only 2 votes since June (except mine).
Cheers, mib
You put too much faith in people's capacity to read & follow instructions. Still, it's the number 1 voted feature request for Android, the desire for extension support is clear.
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@Catweazle said in Support Extensions:
In the PC version, most Chrome Store extensions are already redundant.
oh come on, if chromium API wasn't broken by design I'd install even gestures extension as rockers are still not configurable
V is barely scratching surface, while it has the most built in it lacks tons of things and with chromium API it will never change (too little resources to make everything native and API is next to useless)sure, with native support for userscripts and userstyles a lot of extensions can be replaced with these but that's still only the tip of an iceberg
uBO won't work properly on chromium API and afaik (sadly) it won't be implemented fully, gestures won't work properly on chromium API and rockers are waiting for configuration for years already and so on
proper extensions API is more important than built in features as it allows every user to decide themselves who they want to trust and what they want to have
