Would highly recommend against kiwi, not only is it horrendously out of date, as the source code hasn’t been updated in 2 years, but they’ve also done some shady stuff in the past….
If you want desktop addons on mobile, use firefox nightly, fennec, or mull, and follow my guide on adding any desktop addon to the browser.
Well, kiwibrowser/src isn’t updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It’s the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi’s reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don’t prefer, it’s just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.
I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡
Would highly recommend against kiwi, not only is it horrendously out of date, as the source code hasn’t been updated in 2 years, but they’ve also done some shady stuff in the past….
If you want desktop addons on mobile, use firefox nightly, fennec, or mull, and follow my guide on adding any desktop addon to the browser.
Well, kiwibrowser/src isn’t updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It’s the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi’s reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don’t prefer, it’s just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
Well even looking at next, the last update was 4 months ago.
The dev must read this thread. I just got a Kiwi update via FFUpdater app. 😎
Well. Thanks for the info. Uninstalling
Edit: I added few add-ons to my collection.but I’m unable to add it to my Android. What could be the issue?
did you then add that collection on the mobile app? it might also take a minute or two to appear btw
Here’s what I did:
edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now. Thank you for your help! :)
I’m getting this same error. Added the collection ID and the name where?
i’ve updated the guide now to clarify this better, pic of where to get the collection id and collection name, when on the collections page. Name’s the title, collection id’s the string of numbers.
It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.
I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡
You don’t need to use desktop firefox to do this, you can do the entire process on your phone
Not in 3 hours of trying I couldn’t.