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1y ago

Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

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Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq

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Didn't their pre-version 79 app already support extensions?
- I don't know about pre-79, but their current version supports a very, very limited selection of extensions, many of which are to specifically improve the mobile version of Firefox. Currently, only a total of 22 extensions are supported, many of which share the same purposes.
  
  I mean, ad blocking is like 95% of the reason why I want extensions.
  And the other 5% is blocking all those stupid consent popups.
  
  They actually have at least four adblockers available in mobile Firefox on Android: uBlock Origin, AdGuard AdBlocker, Ghostery, and AdNauseum.
- yeah I'm actually disappointed when they stop doing that
- Is still does, experimentally, if you enable developer settings, rather unintuitively through a Firefox Add-Ons account. Developer settings are not available in the official release but the Nightly builds as well as some forks, like 🦊Fennec, include them.
- Yes. It did.

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