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Cookie whitelisting on Android? (addons.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In my desktop Firefox I use Cookie Autodelete to keep a whitelist of sites whose cookies won't be deleted. All other cookies are deleted as soon as all tabs for a particular site are closed.

Android's Firefox, from what I gather, only give you two choices: delete all cookies upon quitting (not tab closing), or save them across sessions.

Unfortunately the extension above does not work on Firefox Android, and I haven't found any other alternatives.

Do you know of any alternatives or other solutions, to get a behaviour similar to the desktop one? (And also: how come that extension is not supported on Firefox on Android?)

Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can use this method in Fennec/Mull as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought that fennec was no longer developed... I liked it much more than fennix

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

fennec, confusingly, was too different things

fennec, the codename for firefox android before it was codenamed fenix, is no longer developed. you're right

fennec, the floss soft fork of firefox android, is still being developed. it's available on fdroid, and based on fenix (modern firefox android)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Where's the source code for Fennec? The link on its f-droid page is just firefox-android repo.

upd: found it https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

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

I wish the fork would not have chosen the same name as a previous engine....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

to be fair; at the point they name it fennec, it was a pretty sensible name. when mozilla then changed the codename they could either keep name recognition or match upstream, and they chose the former

it's a dumb name now, but i think they made the right choice at every juncture

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

Looking at the commits, I see mozilla devs working on it. The release schedule has been mirroring the official firefox releases for as long as I can remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I get Fennec updates through F-droid all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@darcmage
Iceraven can also do it and it has far more add-ons available by default, including CookieAutoDelete. It works fine for me
@pglpm

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

also @[email protected] thank you! I had no idea about this possibility and these Firefox forks. Looks a little complicated but I'll try it. From what I gather, Firefox plans to bring back full extension support in the future?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like it's been around the corner for years now. I just gave up waiting and switched to fennec on fdroid (which is just Firefox with telemetry removed and a few nightly features enabled, more or less.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you. So many people speaking about Fennec, and I had never heard of it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They most likely will but that's something I've been hearing about for years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

FIY, people say you need Nightly Firefox for Android to install third-party add-ons using the collection method but you can do it on Firefox Beta too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I use cookie autodelete on Android, you might need to use nightly or fennec for full extension support. (And then you have to use extension "collections" for some stupid reason, but it does work)

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