Questions tagged [browser-add-ons]

Browser add-ons can enhance user experience or provide extra functionalities. Use this tag if your question is about a browser add-on, e.g. Tampermonkey

Browser add-ons can enhance user experience or provide extra functionalities. This is a popular feature of browsers on desktop machines. However, on Android, only a few browsers support add-ons, for example Mozilla Firefox and Opera. The ability to install add-ons or extensions is notably absent in mobile Chrome.

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Is there a way to use Userscripts / Greasemonkey Scripts on the Android Browser or Dolphin HD?

I would like to be able to use userscripts in Android. Is this even possible? I read that it was a couple months back and tried a tutorial which I can no longer find but it didn't work. This question may be related to this other one I submitted…
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How can I use browser userscripts on my Android phone?

I am a passionate Stack Exchange user and I have a lot of userscripts in my desktop Chrome browser, installed with Tampermonkey. I want to use them on my Android phone, is it possible?
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How can I export all my open Firefox Tabs to a text file?

I've been trying to find a method to export all my currently open tabs in the Android Firefox browser. Unfortunately this seem impossible from default browser installation and very hard to do from command line as the SQLite3 database that Firefox is…
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How can I add a custom search engine to Chrome (beta, stable...)?

Call me dumb, but, I don't see an obvious way to do this. I want to add duckduckgo.com as the main search engine in Google Chrome for Android (beta, stable...)
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Is there a way to use PC browser bookmarklets with the Android Browser or Dolphin HD?

Can I make these work on Android or is there a google place to create or convert bookmarklets to make them Android Compatible?
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Is there a browser that will display Armenian letters?

I have just got a an HTC Desire as a present and I want to view www.mathnet.am which is an Armenian site. But insted of Armenian letters I see squares. I have read some advices in some forums, but could not solve the problem. Please help. By the way…
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Path where Firefox Mobile Addons store their data?

I've installed Firefox Mobile on my Asus eee transformer and installed the scriptish add-on for using some userscripts. Some of them require editing. The problem is I don't know which path contains these scripts. Does anyone here know that? Or…
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Is it possible to permanently disable CSS on Android browsers?

Is it possible to permanently disable CSS on Android browsers like Firefox, Dolphin, Chrome and Opera? I want the browsers to completely ignore any stylesheet rule. Can this be achieved with the help of AdBlock Plus?
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Add extensions to popular Android browsers?

Is there any simple way to make extensions work on your Android phone with popular working browsers like Chrome or Microsoft Edge, or do you have to download other browsers for this to work out? If there is a simple solution, does anyone know how to…
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Advanced "Find in page" in Google Chrome mobile?

Regarding the "Find in page" feature of Android's default and/or Google Chrome web browsers: Is there a way to fine-tune the search parameters in order to search for strings with more precision or specificity (i.e. inclusivity/exclusivity)? I've…
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What are some use-cases for FireFox|Chrome-to-Phone?

According to FoxToPhone (presumable, ChrometoPhone is similar) you can Send current page with address bar button Right click on any link/image to send to your Android phone Highlight any text and right click to send to the clipboard in your phone…
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How can I get an offline version of wikitravel on my Froyo phone?

I'm looking for a way to get an offline version of wikitravel on my Froyo phone (Desire if it makes any difference) I know of wapedia, but I really need an offline copy of the site... Any obvious way to achieve that? Note that the stock browser…
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Firefox version 21 installed easily but greasemonkey won't install - error saying not compatible with ver 21

I can't find anyone with this problem of not being able to install greasemonkey since installing Firefox version 21 on my android. My ultimate goal is to combine my fitness pal logging with weight watchers so that mfp will calculate ww points. It…
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Browser without video playback

I am trying to avoid any kind of sexual stimulation and want to block video content on any browser. I was looking for browsers which provide this functionality but could not find one. These are the browsers which I found Atlas Browser Lightning…
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Is there a reasonably straightforward way to download videos from proprietary web browser players?

I have a Samsung SM-P900 tablet that I bought specifically to watch professional education videos during a long commute. Unfortunately almost immediately after that the videos I want to watch the most, generally relating to statistics and R…
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