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Firefox on Android has had extensions for a while now. I'm using them everyday. It's just that you can't use all extensions on it as of now.


> It's just that you can't use all extensions on it as of now.

This is so incredibly misleading I struggle to take it seriously. They had _thousands_ of add-ons on firefox and any remotely popular add-on had a firefox-for-android release. If I open Nightly right now and disable custom add-ons I see a woping _18_ add-ons available and this is _3_ years after the first release with GeckoView.

They made the design decision to change to GeckoView engine in firefox 79.

They made this decision with the awareness that it would break all of these add-ons. They have made a very low design effort in the last 3 years to resolve this.

Users went went from hundreds of add-ons and stabilished workflows to 18 add-ons after 3 years of rolling updates.

Power users won't be stopped by this, as Celso mentioned you can add your custom collection on AMO, but it speaks volumes about how much lack of focus there is in FF and the lack of user voice in the current design decisions.


They did have thousands of add-ons in theory, but the vast majority of them didn't work or had major issues.

I agree that it's an issue, but the situation really wasn't great beforethen either.




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