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sverit@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions

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Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions

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Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
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In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
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    Maybe they couldn’t guarantee that the mobile version could run well with all of them? That’s what I’ve always assumed.

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      Which I think is kinda weird decision since they could’ve just hidden a setting that unlocks all addons in the options. But maybe they were so incompatible at the time that it wasn’t worth the headache.

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        If you use Beta or Nightly, you can turn on dev tools and use a custom addon list from a collection in your user account. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/

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        There is a hidden way to activate more extensions and most - if not the vast majority - extensions work fine.

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        There is a hidden setting for essentially that. It might be exclusive to Nightly though, idk since all I need is UBO

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