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 ...
I mean… it already does support desktop addons so I’m not exactly sure what’s new here. It looks like this just fixes android killing background processes due to battery saving, but you can always just disable battery optimisation for firefox, or put it in “never sleeping apps”, though granted even without doing this i’ve never experienced problems.
Well, firefox nightly (playstore), fennec (fdroid), or mull (fdroid) supported them all but you had to manually put them in a collection on your profile first. I’d assume this announcement gets rid of all that.
So this is technically returning an old feature. Prior to the admittedly much, much needed revamp of the app, basically any desktop addon would “just work” on mobile. After the update, only select addons approved by mozilla “just work”, for all other addons you have to use the dev/nightly build of the app and then enable a config flag. This new update is essentially a return to the old system for addons but without sacrificing the performance benefits the revamp brought.
I mean… it already does support desktop addons so I’m not exactly sure what’s new here. It looks like this just fixes android killing background processes due to battery saving, but you can always just disable battery optimisation for firefox, or put it in “never sleeping apps”, though granted even without doing this i’ve never experienced problems.
Well, firefox nightly (playstore), fennec (fdroid), or mull (fdroid) supported them all but you had to manually put them in a collection on your profile first. I’d assume this announcement gets rid of all that.
So this is technically returning an old feature. Prior to the admittedly much, much needed revamp of the app, basically any desktop addon would “just work” on mobile. After the update, only select addons approved by mozilla “just work”, for all other addons you have to use the dev/nightly build of the app and then enable a config flag. This new update is essentially a return to the old system for addons but without sacrificing the performance benefits the revamp brought.
Does this mean tab group addons will work on android soon? That’s honestly the make-or-break feature for me
It supports some, and you can force others to work with a bunch of hacky workarounds
This is a proper extension store announcement.