Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

This sounds like great news!

Firefox is already at the top of my list of preferred browsers on Android, but more extension support has always been on my feature wishlist.

You can do that now with a custom extension list
- You do need firefox beta rn.
Its current poor extension support is the reason I've been using Kiwi Browser, which is a basic Chromium build with full extension support, including loading from local storage.
- Same here. I use custom collections on Fennec F-Droid but the inability to properly sideload keeps me on the auto rebased builds of Kiwi Browser. That and support for the black OLED theme and night mode website retheming built in.
  
  Very glad to see this come to Firefox though! Hopefully they can also get those other bits added in.
- That and Kiwi is the only Android browser with proper developer tools.
- Same here.

That took way too long, but better late than never.

It used to be a thing, didn't it? I remember using any PC browser extension I wanted on my phone at some point and I think it was in Firefox.
- Yeah it was removed when they rebuilt Firefox Android on a new engine and they deemed the extension system too unreliable at the time.
- It was until FF68, when Mozilla decided that it would improve their market share if they rewrote the whole browser and kicked all their advantages down the drain.

I hope they would include addon sideloading as well

My ~~body~~ phone is ready.

Super excited! Firefox is already great and this will just make it more great!

Is there any hope for third party themes as well?

About damn time, they should never have disabled it in the first place.

I'm just hoping for theming to come back to Firefox on Android. Really not into the new UI design either. (T_T)

That's cool

Heck yeah, have about 5 or 6 extensions I use on the desktop version I wanna use on the mobile version!

Such a cool news! Mozilla, go on!

cries in Firefox on iPad

At least my phone will make use of this.

Didn't Apple announce that they were going to remove restrictions on 3rd party browsers on iPhones and iPads? You might be seeing a Gecko based Firefox soon.
- Yes, but how soon? Will it be available in my country? I can't know.
Don't buy Apple products if you don't agree with their policies.

The key takeaway from this is that they're finally rolling out their Web Manifest v3. I'm super excited

I'd use Firefox for Android if it had working per - site process isolation.

I've been waiting for this!

Is there an extension to bring the tab bar back for Android tablets? Otherwise nothing interesting for me.

No idea how good or bad this is but I saw a link to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tablet-ui-for-firefox/ posted somewhere a few days ago and still had a tab open.
- Thanks for the reply and link, i did see this recently, but it looks pretty bad tbh. I'm a bit bitter because it's frustrating such an addon is even required for a feature most other browsers have (and even Firefox had in the past!). I'm all for backing an alternative engine, but I really value a smooth UX, and backing companies that prioritise UX. But again, thanks, the link does address my original comment exactly!

I'd be happy with Firefox for Android if it didn't hang on loading 3/4 of pages. Its been an ongoing bug for years that my partner has also mentioned to be an issue.

Wierd.you must have an edge case because thats very uncommon.
- We both have a very different setup that are used pretty normally so I doubt it is.