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

blog.mozilla.org Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

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 ...

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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