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    1 year ago

    They already were the first? I still remember when I upgraded Firefox on my phone and all of the extensions were gone. It’s nice that they’re finally bringing them back after all these years, but it’s just a return to the way things used to be.

    EDIT: Headline here was changed from the original article, which doesn’t claim “first”, just “only”.

    • They rewrote the Firefox core, which was definitely good for performance and stability. The change also coincided with the deprecation of XUL addons, which removed a lot of desktop addons as well.

      Ever since the rewrite, they’ve kept a small whitelist of addons that usually mostly work. You can make your own list of addons in the settings if you run the beta/nightly version. A lot of addons don’t work, though, because the UI elements that they interact with aren’t available (yet) on mobile.