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[โ€“] waka@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK they said within this year.

But I expect that most addons won't work out-of-the-box on release day. Many of them will be either conceptionally incompatible or too resource intensive for most Android phones, which makes Android kill the app. The Devs said they created a framework to fix this issue, which extension devs can use to adapt their extensions for mobile browsers.

Don't expect every single addon to work right away. It'll take time - probably a year or so - until most relevant extensions support mobile Firefox.

You can try https://github.com/CookieJarApps/SmartCookieWeb-Preview and see what works right now. The app lets you add any add on without a custom collection. uMatrix even works. I just tried it out a few days ago with jShelter, which works too.

This should not be a daily driver though as it is out of date.

[โ€“] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

They will apparently, since they mentioned giving all firefox extensions to the android firefox in a blog post.

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

[โ€“] simon574@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't understand the question, what is the "web store"? A bit more context would be nice.

[โ€“] Albin7326@suppo.fi 5 points 1 year ago

Web store is firefox addon store

[โ€“] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't be a dick; you know from context they are talking about the Firefox add-on marketplace. It's not like Mozilla calls it anything in particular, anyway, so yes, "web store" works.

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not the same user as above, but was also confused about this question. OOTL. Thanks for clarifying though, but I'm not sure they were being a dick. I'd give the benefit of the doubt

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, literally what context? Not everybody is a member of the firefox fan club.

Then why even bother answering a question that is about Firefox in particular?

[โ€“] Smokeydope@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use kiwi browser, lets you use all desktop chrome/chromium addons

[โ€“] Albin7326@suppo.fi 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No thanks. Kiwi browser is not secure. Please dont use it as it updates less frequently.