I am previously used the kiwi browser on my android it was too a chromium browser. It also has the facility to add extensions to the browser. But when I switched to BRAVE I cannot able to add extension. Please implement the extension facility on android as early as possible. We are waiting.
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Developers will introduce support for extensions when required Chromium upstream changes happen. You can follow the whole thing on Github.
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We need this so bad, it would be freaking amazing.
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Wish they would implement this.
Currently using Kiwi for this purpose when using some scripts I made for the Tampermonkey extension.
Also enabling devtools would be nice. 
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I just read through all of the github thread on this, as well as the discussions from the chromium devs on their discussion boards. I see itās been complicated for various reasons, but considering its literally being done by other browsers like Kiwi, its amazing Brave has not worked this into the schedule yet.
If there is any update, can we please hear from someone on the dev team that itās at least in the works by now?
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More important and related to OPās topic:
https://community.brave.com/t/addons-on-android-whats-the-plan/446334/3?u=saoiray
timestamped video to hear it all for yourself would be
Iām very curious why a lot of people use Firefox. Even when I would sometimes, rarely use Microsoft Explorer then Edge I still stayed with using Chrome until I found Brave. With Brave I didnāt have to worry about extensions orngoing into any types of settings to change something I didnāt like. Everything is running nice and smoothly. I use Brave and DuckDuckGo as my search engine.
Donāt get me wrong, I still have Chrome installed and sometimes look at the different results Iāll get from the two different engines.
But I have found Firefox interesting for years but I am curious why users like that broswer over others. And if I did give it a shot, do you have any suggestions, as something you always do on a fresh reinstall. Thanks a lot in advance and hope to hear back from you or anyone on this subjects. Take care
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But still limited to a handful of ad-ons.
+10 on this. I found the home page irritating and distracting. I actually just click to my own website to access frequent links and functions that are common in nearly all other browsers. Chrome and Google are the epitome of bloatware, disrespect for users and contempt for common people. They ooze commercialisation and power elite in all they do. I canāt believe we put so much effort into keeping M$ from a monoply and promoting Linux while Google got a pass on anything humble.
Brave has so much potential to be the browser of everyday people while ABC Corp literally became EVIL.
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Hi
I saw posts from about a year ago saying that addons on Android are in work. Is there a more recent update on when this feature is expected to be released ?
thanks !
Not sure where you saw that but from my understanding, itās not really being worked on. Essentially youāll have seen things like:
To which they said:
We have no current commitment to ship add-on support but we continue to be interested in it and weād like to support it.
Much of what they would need is for Chromium or Chrome projects to add it. Instead, weāre looking at seeing the opposite, of them pulling away from extensions/add-ons.
As for Brave, they just are working on adding requested features into the browser so that extensions arenāt needed. We have playlist out for iOS and should be coming to Desktop and Android before long. Thereās Shields for adblocking, password manager, sync, news, wallet, etc.
@popo128 Just was able to talk about it in todayās Community Call. We were fortunate enough that Brendan Eich was on and answered about it. The short version is that they are still looking for options but thereās nothing immediate.
To put things in my own words:
Google butchered Chromium to not allow extensions on Mobile. It would be a lot of work to try to create something and add it.
Kiwi browser was able to do it by using older Chromium, but then thereās potential security issues. They are trying to extend life but eventually will hit an end where the security vulnerability is too much of a risk, so Brave doesnāt want to go that route.
He explained much better, but thatās basically how Iām able to phrase it for the time being. When they get the recording from the call up, I may link it here so you can hear the response yourself.
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hello @popo128, thank you for bringing it up. We are always working to improve Brave. Unfortunately addons or extensions are not supported yet for mobile devices, you can visit our feature request forum to find more topics about this:
Regards.
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Thank you all.
I added my vote in the feature req page. This is the 2nd highest requested feature. Hope it will be implemented.
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@popo128 Btw, I forgot to come back to add the link. You can check it out at https://youtu.be/FKgpjmIC7hE?t=3229 I have it set to the time stamp about the time where I asked the question and where Brendan came on to answer.
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Need Chrome extension on my android device like Kawibrowser. thank you
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Firefox Nightly allows the use of many Desktop addons. Kiwix Browser, based on Chromium Mobile does the same. Not all Addons work perfectly, but at least there are some like
- Noscript
- LibRedirect (.crx)
If you implement these features, maybe its okay without support. Because I have to say, the browsers are awesome at implementing all the 3rd Party extensions Firefox would need.
Still, Kiwix has some experimental support which works fine. Its just not a privacy browser, and I would like to have Brave mobile, to sync my Passwords e.g.
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very sad this is missing !
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I add myself to those that would like to have extensions support.
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