Firefox @lemmy.ml stravanasu @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Cookie whitelisting on Android?

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!

Firefox @lemmy.world stravanasu @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Cookie whitelisting on Android?

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You can use this method in Fennec/Mull as well.
- I thought that fennec was no longer developed... I liked it much more than fennix
  
  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)
  
  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.
- also @recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 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?
  
  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.)
  
  They most likely will but that's something I've been hearing about for years.
- @darcmage
  Iceraven can also do it and it has far more add-ons available by default, including CookieAutoDelete. It works fine for me
  @pglpm
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.
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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