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[Ubuntu Touch][Feature request] Support Firefox plugins and privacy features (do not track, ...)

Bug #1573491 reported by Fly
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1178002: Implement Do Not Track . Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Hello,

I hope I put this feature request in the right place.

On Ubuntu Touch the default browser is missing basic features like adding plugins and classic Firefox feature such as "Do not track" signal.

Currently it is not possible to avoid online tracking on Ubuntu Touch web browser, which is very sad.

That is a key feature that could prevent me from using Ubuntu Touch as daily.

Thanks for all the work done until here and your consideration for this feature!

PS: I hope this is not a duplicate, I didn't find it elsewhere.

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Tags: feature plugin ut
Fly (nclauzel)
description: updated
description: updated
summary: - [Ubuntu Touch][Feature request] Support Firefox plugins and features
- (do not track, ...)
+ [Ubuntu Touch][Feature request] Support Firefox plugins and privacy
+ features (do not track, ...)
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

By Firefox plugins, did you mean extensions? If so, it’s an explicit non-goal of the touch browser, so they won’t be supported.

Do Not Track is already exposed in oxide, the web engine that powers the browser. We need to hook it in the browser’s UI. This is already tracked by bug #1178002.

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Fly (nclauzel) wrote :

Ok for Do Not Track, good to know.

I thought the Touch browser was based on Firefox and so could support same extentions. My bad if it's not the case.

I'm looking forward a Firefox version on Ubuntu Touch then. The current browser is really basic and it looks unecessary to me to developp the same features all over again.

Thanks for the information. You can close this request.

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Fly (nclauzel) wrote :

Well, actually all that matters to me is to be able to install extensions, so if you tell me that it is chromium based, I am just waiting that I can install chromium extensions, you see the idea :)

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

There is no plan to support chromium extensions either.

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