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I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensio

by simias 6y ago

I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensions.

caslon 6y ago
They recently limited the Android (and derivatives', like FR) build's access to AMO; there are less than fifty there, now. uBO is one, but there's very few other than that. Kind of defeats a major selling-point of WebExtensions.
- simias 6y ago
  I don't understand what FR and AMO mean. Are you saying that many extensions are not compatible with Firefox Mobile?
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    AMO = addons.mozilla.org, I don't know what FR is, but in short... well, I dunno about actually technically incompatible, but yes Mozilla redid mobile extensions and at the same time switched to only allow installation of a tiny hand-picked set of approved extensions on mobile.
  - asddubs 6y ago
    AMO is addons.mozilla.org, i had to look that one up too. no idea about FR, that's harder to google (since it's the country code for france)
- TheGoddessInari 6y ago
  FWIW, on Nightly you can make your own custom addon list. It's not that they can't support add-ons, but that there are things to work out again before a wide re-release. Fenix, based on GeckoView, is a total redesign. I appreciate it, even if I lose access to one NON-AMO extension that was useful.
  - m4rtink 6y ago
    Yes, it is possible, but hardly user friendly - each user needs to create an AMO account, create a custom addon list and then copy paste id strings back and forth. Only then finaly you can actually use an addon from AMO in your Nigtly Firefox. Frankly sounds much more like jumping through unnecessary hoops than anything. Most users will likely give up than provide much needed feedback to extension authors about how their extensions work on Android.

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I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensio

by simias 6y ago

I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensions.

caslon 6y ago
They recently limited the Android (and derivatives', like FR) build's access to AMO; there are less than fifty there, now. uBO is one, but there's very few other than that. Kind of defeats a major selling-point of WebExtensions.
- simias 6y ago
  I don't understand what FR and AMO mean. Are you saying that many extensions are not compatible with Firefox Mobile?
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    AMO = addons.mozilla.org, I don't know what FR is, but in short... well, I dunno about actually technically incompatible, but yes Mozilla redid mobile extensions and at the same time switched to only allow installation of a tiny hand-picked set of approved extensions on mobile.
  - asddubs 6y ago
    AMO is addons.mozilla.org, i had to look that one up too. no idea about FR, that's harder to google (since it's the country code for france)
- TheGoddessInari 6y ago
  FWIW, on Nightly you can make your own custom addon list. It's not that they can't support add-ons, but that there are things to work out again before a wide re-release. Fenix, based on GeckoView, is a total redesign. I appreciate it, even if I lose access to one NON-AMO extension that was useful.
  - m4rtink 6y ago
    Yes, it is possible, but hardly user friendly - each user needs to create an AMO account, create a custom addon list and then copy paste id strings back and forth. Only then finaly you can actually use an addon from AMO in your Nigtly Firefox. Frankly sounds much more like jumping through unnecessary hoops than anything. Most users will likely give up than provide much needed feedback to extension authors about how their extensions work on Android.