Evaluate iOS / Android capabilites

[chris-aeviator]

We should check how we are doing on Android and iOS Versions of Chrome and Firefox.

• AFAIK iOS Firefox/ Chrome is nothing more than Safari with a different UI. Are we able to address this?
• How is the extension/onboarding behaving on mobile OS'es in general
• is a browser extension for mobile browsers a thing at all?
• How can we integrate mobile OS'es into our testing pipeline?

[bumi]

afaik there are no add-ons in mobile browsers. (Firefox help). I think for mobile we would need to use a full app (with integrated browser maybe) but I don't think that's a good way to go. I think breez and bluewallet do something like that on mobile

[chris-aeviator]

It says that android is supported (I remember also having Adblock Plus installed there)

Add-ons for the desktop and Android version of Firefox are unavailable for Firefox for iOS. I'd def. look into not letting mobile users out of scope (personally) since this is maybe the biggest crowd of content readers, more research needed though...

On Apr. 21 2021, at 2:40 pm, Michael Bumann @.***> wrote:

afaik there are no add-ons in mobile browsers. (Firefox help (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios)). I think for mobile we would need to use a full app (with integrated browser maybe) but I don't think that's a good way to go. I think breez and bluewallet do something like that on mobile

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[verityj]

Safari iOS /iPadOS extensions work since iOS 15 (https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/). How hard would it be to convert it? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari

(I would use it daily on Safari Mac as that's my primary browser. And iOS.)

[cbrunnkvist]

See nostore for an example of an extension that (at least at some point, prior to iOS 18-) worked in Safari in iOS (and consequently maybe also macOS).