I’m pretty sure they’ll only allow those the creator tagged as supporting android. Otherwise, the experience will be horrible for the vast majority of users. I never tested my extension on android, and it absolutely requires a proper monitor (not that it is impossible, but I’d have to do that).
Their blog has an article about what has to change, and this is what it looks like online:
What is your extension in firefox addons store ?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-history-ng/
Most of the work was done by someone else, but they stopped maintaining it, and it broke with an FF update. I only fixed that issue, and some other small ones.
That's nice. The default history page is really worthless.
Yeah, I was really sad when the old one broke. Eventually I looked it up, saw the error, forked it for myself and mailed the original author about please adding a license, which they did ;)
Ok
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This should not be a daily driver though as it is out of date.
They will apparently, since they mentioned giving all firefox extensions to the android firefox in a blog post.
I don't understand the question, what is the "web store"? A bit more context would be nice.
Web store is firefox addon store
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.
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
I don't think it's warranted in this case. Since we're on Lemmy, we can assume high technical literacy as the average user here is significantly more technologically aware than that of our generic Reddit counterpart, so they are almost certainly at least familiar with the concept of browser add-ons. Even if Firefox isn't your browser of choice, you do know how add-ons work and how they are distributed to end users, right? You don't need to know the details of this specific set of events to know that the OP meant the add-on marketplace.
Although most people are considerably more tech savy than average here, and there is a solid foss userbase etc.- this is Ask Lemmy. People from all walks of life subscribe here. It'd be different if it were asked on a community dedicated to software, privacy or else.
Holy shit this is such a neckbeard reply lol
New copypasta dropped
Awful lot of energy for a pretty basic clarifying question, my dude. Your social cue drivers need updating.
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?
Use kiwi browser, lets you use all desktop chrome/chromium addons
No thanks. Kiwi browser is not secure. Please dont use it as it updates less frequently.
