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Iceraven [0] is a fork of Firefox for Android maintained by hobbyist Mozilla developers but not officially provided by Mozilla. It supports a wide variety of extensions (including Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, and Violentmonkey) and also exposes additional customization options. Worth checking out if you're interested in extensions for Firefox on Android
[0] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/blob/master/COP...
this says GPL so unless they update their license file here, this stays
If anyone needs a "monkey" not for web pages but for any process on your computer system, may I recommend Frida:
https://frida.re
https://github.com/frida/frida
With Frida, you write JavaScript programs and inject them into arbitrary processes, to hook and modify and call whatever you please.
It gets a lot of use in the reverse engineering and vulnerability research communities, but has broader scope too. For instance, I used it recently to automate the UI of a video production program on Windows, by injecting a thread that sends window messages to the main message loop and hooks into various system dialog functions.
Second that, I love Frida! I recently wrote about how I used it to reverse engineer the MacBook’s clamshell mode, and add it in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi)
There’s a few extra steps in allowing Frida to work on macOS so leaving that here in case others might be interested in how to do it: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/turn-off-macbook-display-clams...
Plus one for Iceraven - https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
And an additional shout out for FF Updater, which can keep Iceraven up to date - https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater
Feel free to implement this in HomeActivity::onKeyDown. (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/blob/ce68e...).
Check for the appropriate modifiers on your key event + R, and call components.useCases.sessionUseCases.reloadUrl().
Why is it so bad ? Because noone uses a keyboard on mobile. Because if they had spent time implementing any other features that are used by 0.0001% of users, you'd have been complaining that Mozilla is wasting their money on not making a better browser.
I recommend the fork Mull: https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
It includes privacy-related improvements. See more: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
It's too late to add comments to the original thread, but I put together a variation that incorporates all of the suggestions from the comments, plus a couple of tweak of my own (add an avatar to your username in the top bar) and made it available here: https://github.com/nfriedly/hn-avatars/