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We’re taking a steady approach to opening up the mobile extension ecosystem to ensure Firefox for Android maintains strong performance standards while a vast new array of extensions are utilized for the first time in a mobile environment. If testing continues to progress well, we anticipate unveiling a fully open Firefox for Android extension ecosystem sometime in December.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have Firefox as my main browser on Android, but I still use the Google app for certain searches/news/weather, but it opens the articles in chrome. Anyone know a good alternative to the Google app that uses Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@R00bot @AlmightySnoo You can configure the Google app to open links in Firefox (or whatever browser is configured as default)

Find this control in the Google apps Settings and turn it off

(You may also need to set Firefox as the default browser on the Android settings, if you have not already find do)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh nice. Thanks. I looked in the settings before but must've missed that one. Much better now opening articles without being assaulted with ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

you can also use linksheet to get a prompt or set a default

https://github.com/1fexd/LinkSheet