Besides missing better add-ons support, it was the lack of about:config access and the difficult process of adding new search engines, that kept us from using the browser.įirefox users who don't mind using development versions can use Firefox Nightly to get better add-ons support and access to about:config, but it is not designed for production environments. we published three missing features that were keeping us from upgrading the browser. Our three reasons not to upgrade to the new Firefox for Android still hold.
No information on future plans has been provided at the time of writing. Mozilla will focus on optimizing the performance of add-ons in the coming months. In the upcoming months, we’ll continue to work on optimizing add-on performance on mobile. This wraps up our initial plans to enable extension support for Firefox for Android. Firefox for Android users are still limited to installing the 18 supported extensions, and it seems that these will be the only ones for the foreseeable future, as Mozilla's Caitlin Neiman notes on the official company blog: The last step was to introduce options on Mozilla's main add-ons repository website to install extensions from it. Mozilla announced on Januthat it has completed the first Firefox for Android extensions development milestone. Not all extensions will work as APIs are still not implemented and some extensions may be designed for desktop use. The total of supported extensions, as of January 2021, is still only 18.įirefox Nightly for Android users can install other extensions by following a complicated process designed to make things as difficult as possible for the user.
Support was extended several times by adding more recommended extensions. Mozilla picked popular extensions like uBlock Origin, and users could install those directly from the browser. Support for extensions was limited to a selection of add-ons, less than ten, on launch. Mozilla did make the decision to support them, and started to integrate support for WebExtensions into the browser. It was not even clear from the get-go if the new browser would support extensions at all. One of the main complaints was that the new Firefox lacked full support for extensions.
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