ItsTom87 comments on Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions

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[–] ItsTom87@kbin.social 29 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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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[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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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[–] frogfruit@discuss.online 11 points 3 years ago

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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[–] TheLeechiestLeech@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 years ago