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The irony doesn't escape me that if they'd just turn off the extension restriction there are like a thousand extensions that would do that and more for any audi
by mdaniel 4y ago
The irony doesn't escape me that if they'd just turn off the extension restriction there are like a thousand extensions that would do that and more for any audience where such a thing still matters
I haven't tried to build Firefox for Android in a really long time but I wonder what the level of effort would be to just track the release tags with such a patch applied (i.e. the world's shallowest fork)
- godshatter 4y ago> if they'd just turn off the extension restriction That's basically Fennec. Download it from F-Droid. It's basically a clone of Firefox with extensions turned back on.
- mdaniel 4y agoNegative, I just tried https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ (which, delightfully, wasn't 0.99.beta-patch3 or some such nonsense) but it for sure was not "allow me to install whatever add-on I want". It's the same stupid list as normal Firefox for Android Maybe you're thinking of Firefox Nightly, which I do run from the Play store and is better than "normal people Firefox" but this for sure is not the good old days of "Let Me Install Violentmonkey not stupid Tapermonkey"
- godshatter 4y agoWeird, I thought Fennec had those. I downloaded it and use it for browsing, but I mostly don't browse on my phone. From a web search though, I found out you can go into settings, click on "About Fennec" and click on the logo five times to unlock debug mode which apparently gives you access to custom add-on collections. You have to go to the firefox add-ons page and make a custom collection under your account for it to be useful. This presumably allows all add-ons through this method.