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Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Really!? Well, shit, I hate life more, then.
What is new, it seems, is the general availability of a lot more extensions. Right now it's just a handful of curated ones. You can't just go to addons and expect to install anything at the moment.
That said... RES on mobile? I'm intrigued to find out how well that works.
You can find out right now. I've been using it along with old.reddit redirect for years on mobile.
The truth is Firefox mobile has been able to run desktop add-ons this whole time. All that happened was they had to restrict availability of add-ons from the addon store to only the handful that they had verified work without issues. All the other add-ons could still work if they were maintained, but Mozilla couldn't guarantee they'd work yet, so they wouldn't let you install them directly like the other add-ons.
But if you used Firefox Nightly, there was a built in work around that would let you use any desktop addon on mobile. Some don't work, some do. Old.reddit redirect and RES both work.
Yeah, that's where nightly was when I still had it, with only a few, if important, extensions available.
But RES and old.reddit were no-go and made me sad. At least I had RIF (RIP IN PEACE).
Either way, glad to see it's getting wider support for all. I wish it worked that way in fruitymobileland, but at least there is a browser (Orion) that actually supports both FF and Chrome extensions that tries to make up for things.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1be51ad3-b406-41a2-89f9-e03c17d06070.jpeg
It's really sad after all these years people still don't know about the addon work around.
You could have been using desktop add-ons on mobile this whole time. It wasn't a secret, either, Mozilla told you how.
It's crazy that it's been 3 years and this isn't common knowledge among Firefox users.
To be fair I never dug around for a solution for that.