I beg your pardon? Literally hundreds if not thousands of add-ons worked flawlessly on Firefox Android until a few weeks ago.

> All the major addons that people use are available

You'll need to seriously find some source for that extraordinary claim. What does "major" even mean? Who cares about "major ones" if 50% of my add-ons are missing, crippling the functionality of my browser on mobile? This claims makes no sense at all.

Presumably, "major" means "used by most people", and even without checking I'm quite sure that if you looks at the install numbers of old Firefox for Android Add-ons, you'll find that a very large part of those installs were of extensions that are still available.

Sure, I'd like my small Hacker News extension to be available as well, but I do care far more about uBlock and Privacy Badger being available - and judging by installs, so do loads of other people.

(Again, which is not to say that I'd like the smaller extensions to be available as well. But "the major addons that people use are available" looks like a mostly accurate claim.)

This is actually a small portion of addons available in the desktop Firefox. Many of them somehow worked, but were never optimized for mobile. "Worked flawlessly" is in my opinion a great overestimation.

this is not true. I used to have many addons working perfectly on Android.

> All the major addons that people use are available.

Wow, all 9 of them? /s

(from Mozilla's announcement: "We’re kicking it off with the top 9 add-ons")

That doesn't contradict the statement you're replying to at all.

> Wow, all 9 of them?

Yes, the major ones that people use. More are coming but I'd guess those 9 cover the vast majority of add-on installs

The number of add-ons that used to work before, was exponentially bigger than 9. Can we agree on that?

One example of add-ons that will stop working, is the Google container. Mozilla keeps making choices on behalf of its users by releasing an official Facebook container but not an official Google container (or an Amazon or a Twitter one) even though it would be trivial to fork the Fb container to achieve that [1].

This is problematic because we know that the largest share of Mozilla's revenue is from Google.

That's like a smoking cessation products company that is funded by Philip Morris.

So, you will excuse me if I think that some or recent Mozilla's choices are not in the interest of its users.

[1] and no, the multi-account container is not the answer because it's non-trivial to set up for less technical users

Granted, the latter two are for niche use cases. But, the point is they exist, and I want to use them. Losing that ability is going to be frustrating, which is one of several reasons why I do not intend to "upgrade" to the new FF Android version until they've actually fixed that and the other major issues from this release.

Where are you getting these numbers from? Unfortunately it seems that addons.mozilla.org statistics have become private for all add-ons (it used to be the case that add-on authors could decide on making them public or keeping them private), so I can only look at my own current numbers, but something's definitively off there:

Whereas general usage data goes back slightly more than one year, for me the Android data currently only starts in June (!) and with ridiculously low numbers at that (just a handful of users). Since August they have started to pick up a little, but they're still a far cry from what I remember – https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/video-background-pl... shows almost 1k Android users at the moment, which is less than the amount of Windows users being reported, even though installing the addon on desktop doesn't even make all that much sense due to desktop Youtube not blocking background playback anyway. Unfortunately I hadn't looked at that statistics for quite a while so my memory is a bit hazy, but according to the Wayback machine, a year ago that add-on had around 35,000 users, with a very clear majority (that I still remember for sure) of them having been on Android.

Likewise, my memories of uBlock origin's statistics are somewhat fuzzy, but I think it had something on the order of a few 100,000 (maybe 300,000 to 400,000 users?) on Android. Adblock Plus had a similar amount, which I remember within the context of them having considerably more users on Desktop than uBlock Origin, but a relatively similar amount on Android.