Is your extension ready for Firefox for Android? Be part of the launch of a new open mobile ecosystem
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During the release cycle of Firefox 120, we’ll begin to see the emergence of dozens of new, openly available extensions on Firefox for Android on ...

Includes an incentive for ensuring extension compatibility with Android in the form of a free t-shirt.

  • @CosmicTurtleEnglish
    43•1 year ago

    It’s about time. This has been a much needed feature since Firefox Android was first released. It basically is the only mobile browser that allows extensions.

    • darq
      21•1 year ago

      What’s really annoying is that a lot of existing extensions already work. Mozilla just makes it unreasonably difficult to install them.

      Change your user agent (using Firefox Nightly and the user agent switcher extension, which is supported) and you can install extensions exactly as on desktop.

      Installing directly from an .xpi is still seemingly impossible though, annoyingly.

      • @woelkchenEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        What’s really annoying is that a lot of existing extensions already work. Mozilla just makes it unreasonably difficult to install them.

        Change your user agent (using Firefox Nightly and the user agent switcher extension, which is supported) and you can install extensions exactly as on desktop.

        That’s only telling half the story because often features silently failed for many extensions because of the great idea to switch from proper Firefox to the GeckoView based one which actually did not implement many APIs used by extensions.

        • darq
          1•1 year ago

          I mean, sure. That’s not at all unexpected. But not even allowing the user to try at all, or making it unreasonably difficult to try, is very frustrating.

          Place the option behind developer mode, with a disclaimer that features may fail and Mozilla makes no promises or guarantees.

          But just flat-out denying the option, or making the user jump through ridiculous custom collection hoops is nonsense. In my case the custom collection method still failed, but the extension I was looking for does in fact work just fine, after installing it with the modified user agent string.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        There is a fork called Smart Cookie Web Preview that lets you sideload extensions with no rigmarole, no Custom Collection nonsense, I have yet to find an extension that does not work. Even things like Behave and Jshelter work fine. I have no idea why Mozilla has been dragging this out for so long, lack of extension support on Android is a very common complaint.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Yeah. I was horrified when they basically broke extensions on mobile. And had no urgency to fix it. I personally would have said it’s not ready to replace the previous revision until it supports extensions…

        A 3-year gap in software is awful, it’s only forgivable because nobody else supports extensions. Except apparently kiwi browser

  • BeboEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    I love that Mozilla supports extensions on mobile. But I wish they would provide PWA support on desktop. I end up having to use edge for PWAs.

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Does anyone know if this will finally introduce the storage sync APIs that make NoScript sync across desktop and mobile?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    I want the T-shirt but my theme addon only looks good if you use tree style tabs on desktop lol

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    Great! Finally Local CDN and other can be available.

    I also hope they fix the sync stuff, as uBlock can’t seem to download already backed up version of my settings.