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Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] deweydecibel 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

It just seems like now they've decided that they've done enough work on this to open it back up.