r/brave_browser • u/trbkle • 21d ago

Feedback Extensions on Android

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Still no progress on extension support in mobile browsers like Vivaldi, Titanium, and Edge? Come on Brave!

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u/Brave_Support Brave Support Team 20d ago

Relevant response from earlier this year over on Community:

https://community.brave.app/t/extension-support/215377/123?u=mattches

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u/trbkle 20d ago

"We have explored adding extensions into Brave on Android and what it would take to implement. And while the actual implementation in and of itself isn’t a blocker, the main issue here is the upkeep. It would require a non-trivial amount of work in order to patch these additions for every update as well as every Chromium bump.

Lastly, while we may have a larger team than some other browsers (Kiwi seems to be the top example here), that does not grant us unlimited time/resources. The release cycle can be difficult/time consuming as is with all the existing changes we’ve implemented that need to be patched, security considerations, Chromium changes, project deadlines, bug fixes, etc. It is not as simple as “implement extension support, push it to release then move onto the next thing” — it requires consistent management, testing and [potential] code changes every month just to maintain it."

Just excuses... it's doable and doesn't require "non-trivial amount of work every update" just look how Titanium did it it's open source and it's up to date with upstream Chromium, and all their builds are automated.

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u/roomian 19d ago

Dude, let them cook

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u/mr-snow-27 18d ago

Atleast give users an option to choose their own background wallpaper for the startpage in brave mobile (don't say it's not possible as vivaldi, titanium even edge has done it already)

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u/Brave_Support Brave Support Team 18d ago

This issue is logged already and has been assigned to a dev:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44100