# Add-on support in new Firefox for Android

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488>\
**Category:** Add-on Support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488 "2020-02-07T22:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![DaveRo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/105 "2020-09-30T16:53:30Z")

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> [@freaktechnik](#):
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> …add it to the collection with Firefox for Android

I should have thought of that. It works. Thanks.

And Stylus appears to work with Fenix too, including importing Fennec’s userstyles 🙂

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**Author:** ![davidpiano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@davidpiano](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/davidpiano)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/107 "2020-10-10T20:57:22Z")

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I disrespect answers that are not completely honest. And I disrespect an organization if it decides to give that kind of answers.

The kind of dishonest answers I mean are the kind that Caitlin Neiman has been giving. She **has not** lied, she has obviously taken great care not to lie or to give false information, but at the same time she has made it perfectly clear that the full truth is not available. There are obviously no military secrets involved here, no **good** reason to hide anything.

**I don’t blame Caitlin Neiman - this is her job.** I don’t think she made a personal decision to give evasive answers to reasonable questions, I think she has been assigned this task because she’s good at it, and is doing the job to the best of her ability (and far better than I could do).

It’s just sad to me that “Mozilla disinformation officer” has become a thing.

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**Author:** ![caitlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/caitlin/32/6091_2.png) [@caitlin](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/caitlin)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/108 "2020-10-12T15:39:39Z")

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@davidpiano, you are welcome to voice your disagreement or disapproval with the new Firefox for Android product, but personal attacks aren’t welcome here.

Please make sure you read [Mozilla’s Community Participation Guidelines](https://www.mozilla.org/about/governance/policies/participation/) before commenting again and consider this your final warning.

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**Author:** ![jorgev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jorgev](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jorgev)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/110 "2020-10-12T23:37:12Z")

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We understand your frustration with the current state of add-on support in Fenix. We communicated where we are in this process but haven’t said specifically where we are going. That’s because it hasn’t been fully decided and we prefer to post information we are sure about. We will provide updates as soon as decisions are made.

That said, this thread has veered into speculation, bad-faith assumptions, and call-outs, and that will not be tolerated. We will start moderating messages and will close this thread if this behavior continues.

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**Author:** ![juraj.masiar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/juraj.masiar/32/30587_2.png) [@juraj.masiar](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/juraj.masiar)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/112 "2020-10-13T09:40:39Z")

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I would also like to share my frustration 🙂  
I also don’t like that these huge decisions are being made somewhere somehow with no public discussion.  
**I DO like that your UI designer is now [asking users opitions on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ivf6hc/feedback_wanted_android_homescreen_designs/)** (I wish it was done before the first public release though…).

BTW - I’ve been trying to “go with a flow” and use the new Collections feature. But did you know [it’s loading old cached content and it’s by design](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10417)?  
So my two collections “Weather” and “Lunch menu” are always showing me yesterdays weather 💦 and yesterdays lunch menu 🍕!

I would really like to know if the person who designed all these features is actually using them and is happy about them. Because I’m for sure not happy ☹.

And hearing that the future is unsure and addons that are here to solve these kind of “unique” (???) issues / use-cases may stay blocked forever is a nightmare for me.

I’m sure you are getting a lot of feedback these days, so just make sure to read it and act on it 🙂. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![trumad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@trumad](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/trumad)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/113 "2020-10-13T15:19:16Z")

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> [@jorgev](#):
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> it hasn’t been fully decided

I would like to express frustration that it wasn’t fully decided whether to continue to support addons before moving forward with Fenix. The worst bad-faith assumption I could’ve made previously about Firefox for Android was that the team didn’t even have a plan for supporting all addons. And that assumption has just been confirmed.

For me, and other users, addon support was the killer feature of this browser. I hope that will inform where the team is going with this process, and we can have good faith that full addon support will resume as normal.

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**Author:** ![DaveRo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/114 "2020-10-16T19:47:21Z")

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> [@juraj.masiar](#):
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> I DO like that your UI designer is now asking users opitions on Reddit …

Reddit? Whose idea was that? ISTR someone has written about communication channels - I don’t recall Reddit being mentioned.

I’ve been trying to use nightly - all my addons work - but it’s unusable on my tablet in the absence of accessible bookmarks or editable Top Sites. And huge amounts of empty space. So this is still Fennec.

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**Author:** ![tnarera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/tnarera/32/42268_2.png) [@tnarera](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/tnarera)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/115 "2020-10-31T01:39:19Z")

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I have update 201030 17:00 for Nightly Android. I followed every step from creating collection, debug mode, custom add-ons etc. After I put in User ID and name and I go to add-ons it shows "failed to query add-ons"

 ![Screenshot_2020-10-31-07-03-17-34_984e1414ae90666a90f12ff17ec14a7f](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/d/8/d81dda26d153628cab3a993bf97c66c1c9de5d30.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![qed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/9dc877/32.png) [@qed](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/qed)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/116 "2020-10-31T05:04:09Z")

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It disheartens me deeply to see what Mozilla has become.

You have lost my trust, and I cannot believe in the reasons you have given so far on why you want to make a walled garden. Sadly, I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

From your current stance, I can extrapolate that you will never add back the ability to sideload arbitrary addons from any place, with me taking the risk only for the addons.

I’ll start looking for an alternative, and I’ll switch over when I find one.

Very sad that this day has come.

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**Author:** ![DaveRo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/117 "2020-10-31T07:26:33Z")

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> [@tnarera](#):
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> After I put in User ID and name and I go to add-ons it shows “failed to query add-ons

I had something like that error at first. Make sure the collection name has no spaces in it; I had to set up my existing collection again with a new name. And load any of the recommened addons you want, like uBlockOrigin, before you start; you can’t get at them once you change collection.

I’m now using Nightly on this 10" tablet. All my own addons work. It is certainly faster than Fennec and copes with complicated sites like NYT without freezing like Fennec sometimes did.

The user interface is just dire, though. Several taps to do simple things that you could do in Fennec with one tap. No easy way to find my favourite sites. I’m just not the user they designed it for: [Allow more than 4 top sites columns in landscape mode/ tablet · Issue #15474 · mozilla-mobile/fenix · GitHub](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/15474#issuecomment-714979846) (None of those little top-site icons are editable, and identical-looking ones go to different URLs.)

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**Author:** ![tnarera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/tnarera/32/42268_2.png) [@tnarera](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/tnarera)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/119 "2020-10-31T09:44:46Z")

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Thanks a lot! Removing those spaces made add-ons work. And I saw your ss. Yeah that UX needs to be fixed and optimized for tablets.

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**Author:** ![peter\_rock7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/848f3c/32.png) [@peter\_rock7](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/peter_rock7)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/120 "2020-11-01T22:21:06Z")

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Hi all, is it possible in any way to set a password on the add-ons section through Firefox or Nightly?

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**Author:** ![caitlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/caitlin/32/6091_2.png) [@caitlin](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/caitlin)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/121 "2020-11-02T18:38:11Z")

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Hi @peter_rock7, we currently don’t have this feature and are interested in learning more. Could you tell us a little bit more about why you would like this?

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**Author:** ![peter\_rock7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/848f3c/32.png) [@peter\_rock7](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/peter_rock7)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/122 "2020-11-03T03:51:03Z")

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Hi Caitlin,

I see this would be a great security feature for anyone who lends their phone to another (to ensure the functionalities from the addons are not tampered with) and I think also useful for parental control addons. There is a Public addon that essentially required a password to access the setting of all addons on Desktop but I do not believe it carries over well to android.

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**Author:** ![DaveRo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/123 "2020-11-05T08:58:39Z")

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I discovered that **view-source:** doesn’t work in nightly (I often needed it in Fennec) and found this issue:

> <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3972>
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> \### Why/User Benefit/User Problem
> Today in Firefox (and Chrome) for Android I ca…n pre-pend \`view-source:\` to a URL in the address bar and see the HTML source code for the page.
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> As a developer, this is a great tool for quick on-the-fly debugging, getting anchor links, getting resources links, or otherwise trying to understand or address issues / features on a page without having to rely on emulators or otherwise hook up a laptop for dev tools.
> 
> \### What/Requirements
> When a user pre-pends \`view-source:\` to a URL in the address bar, show the underlying HTML source code in the same tab (adding that view into the history object).
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> \### Acceptance Criteria (how do I know when I’m done?)
> \* When the source code is rendered, ideally mimicking the feature in Firefox for Android.
> \* When I can press 'back' and be returned to the page.
> \* When I can then press 'forward' to get to the source view I just had.
> 
> ┆Issue is synchronized with this \[Jira Task\](https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FNXV2-12513)

This is clearly a bug not a feature request, whatever that issue says. Anyway, this addon is good - better than the actual view-source facility - so I thought I’d share that here.

> **[View Page Source (Mobile) – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/view-page-source-mobile/)**
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> Download View Page Source (Mobile) for Firefox. Adds the ability to open the page source in a new tab via button (Desktop) or menu (Firefox for Android).

And it’s a good example of an addon that should be available in Release, even though it’s never going to be popular.

Tip for big tablet users using discourse: add ?mobile\_view=0

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**Author:** ![petr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@petr](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/petr)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/124 "2020-11-16T12:21:30Z")

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Hi @caitlin, I have seen that in Firefox 83 more addons are supported. My favourite add-on is unfortunately not included. ☹ Is there anything we can do to support you in this process? It takes a few years until all add-ons are tested 😄

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**Author:** ![caitlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/caitlin/32/6091_2.png) [@caitlin](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/caitlin)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/125 "2020-11-16T17:40:36Z")

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Hi @petr! Sorry to hear your favorite add-on isn’t officially supported in Firefox 83. ☹ Can you share a link to it?

Currently, we are prioritizing support for Recommended Extensions. You might want to [nominate](https://support.mozilla.org/kb/recommended-extensions-program#w_can-i-suggest-extensions-to-become-recommended) your favorite extension to be Recommended. You might also want to use [this workaround](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/) to install other extensions in Firefox for Android Nightly.

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**Author:** ![petr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@petr](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/petr)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/126 "2020-11-16T19:18:59Z")

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Thanks for your answer. I know the workaround and I use it 🙂 It would still be nice if my favourite add-ons were transferred to the normal Firefox. I noticed that for FF 83 also addons that are not “recommended” are included 🤔

The extensions are [https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/floccus/](https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/floccus/) and [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/)

Can we as normal users support you and test?

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**Author:** ![a.mpoygiatiwths](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@a.mpoygiatiwths](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/a.mpoygiatiwths)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/127 "2020-11-17T10:41:58Z")

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On nightly, on stable when ?

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**Author:** ![caitlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/caitlin/32/6091_2.png) [@caitlin](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/caitlin)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488/128 "2020-11-18T00:11:00Z")

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Hi @petr, I’m not quite sure what you mean by “Can we as normal users support you and test.” 🙂 We try to keep our Recommended list tightly curated, so not every extension that is nominated to the program is accepted.

All of the new extensions available on mobile should be Recommended. 🙂

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