Jolla makes the rules 
And the rules are problematic. And tbh i totally get it that devs will be pissed if something changes down the line and have to modify their apps.
But we are missing so many useful apps. Native mapping (Pure maps) is awesome and we cant have it. And so many other stuff that would make the phone far more useful out of the box. We have discussed it so many times in meetings and no solution could be found.
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With Sailfish 4.0 it’s already time. Make the smart and at the same time easy move to support existing extensions.
It would be nice, but I don’t think it’s feasible to officially support them. In the short term while we’re still lagging behind a currently supported version of Gecko there will be compatibility issues. Even when we’re up-to-date, the Sailfish Browser UI is very different from Firefox’s so many addons will never work, and those memory problems mentioned by tanghus will continue to be an issue.
Saying that, some of the addon bits were re-enabled in 3.4.0 so we could use GMP plugins for the codecs. Has anyone tried messing around with them lately?
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I’d be happy if we could at least enable UblockOrigin.
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There is Defender that works really well for blocking ads, it just needs one change to work in 4.0’s browser until it gets updated. So adblocker addon won’t be that helpful.
Its about having something that works out of the box. without needing to go to openrepos etc.
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I’ve only had two major problems with Sailfish. The other one, lost VPN credentials, has been solved. Please solve this one too - upgrade Gecko and do everything else needed but I know there is a way add-ons for Firefox can work with a fork.
I’ve installed Defender II at https://openrepos.net/content/peterleinchen/defender-ii-updated-encrypted-devices-originated-nodevel (the original defender’s been abandoned for so long that I highly doubt its usefulness) and it does help. Combined with the built-in saving of pages as PDF, I tend to agree the most important addition to browsers is covered. Still, it’s ridiculous not to support the vast wealth of extensions. After all, they aren’t equivalent to ad blocking alone. So - please work on this and find a solution.
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Are there any news about an ad blocker for Sailfish 4.4 ?
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I don’t care about cookies would be fine!
The cookie warnings are really annoying!
I miss an option in Browser settings to just allow Cookies from the visited website itself and blocking all third-part cookies…
Another missing thing is support for WebApps an Service Workers.
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This works really nicely for me. I only can’t make automatic updates work, otherwise it is quite nice, if you are not scared of using terminal. I definitely recommend using ssh from your PC.
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Hi, tried to install it via ssh,the first commands worked, but I have an error message:
[defaultuser@Xperia10III ~]$ sudo nano /var/lib/lxc/aliendalvik/extra_config
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 98 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 98
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
$ devel-su nano /etc/sudoers
#...
## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment)
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
#12.6.22 ergaenzt fuer adblocker
defaultuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Could you please help me to finish the installation?
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Change defaultuser to nemo in the last line, and that should be it.
I’m sorry, but it didn’t work. Here my terminal-output:
[defaultuser@Xperia10III ~]$ curl -L git.io/hosty | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- 0:00:01 --:–:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- 0:00:03 --:–:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- 0:00:03 --:–:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- 0:00:04 --:–:-- 0
100 2398 100 2398 0 0 496 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:–:-- 0
======== Welcome to hosty installer ========
======== astrolince.com/hosty ========
Checking if user has root access...
Requesting sudo...
Do you want to always run the latest version of hosty? (recommended) y/n
y
Installing hosty...
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 98 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 98
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Fixing permissions...
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 98 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 98
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Checking optional dependencies...
Do you want to automatically update your hosts file with latest ads list? (recommended) y/n
n
Done.
If I’m running out of topic, should I start a new issue for that?
There must be something wrong with your sudoers file, did you checked line 98?
My sudoers file only contains 2 uncommented lines
defaultuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
nemo ALL=(ALL) ALL
On Linux distributions you really should not edit the /etc/sudoers file directly, but use sudo visudo.
I do not know how to add visudo or sudo to the phone.
‘pkcon install sudo’