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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by piyh on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:59PM (#34419980)
You can use Firefox nightly and enable any that you want.

I'd rather use the version of Firefox that doesn't crash more frequently, but that's the trade-off I gotta make at the moment.

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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by nfriedly on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:18PM (#34420248)
Yeah, I know there's workarounds, but it's a pain in the rear.

Currently I'm using Iceraven which is essentially just Firefox with about a thousand extensions enabled instead of 17.

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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by burkaman on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:14PM (#34420199)
How? I use Firefox Nightly but I only see the handful of recommended extensions available.
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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by keyme on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:22PM (#34420316)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/

You can create your own "extension collection", and change the default one used by FF on Android. I use the Fennec build of FF from F-droid (Playstore build doesn't support this).

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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by necrosmash on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:52PM (#34420663)
You can do the same thing with the regular playstore nightly build, works great
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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by hoppyhoppy2 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:49PM (#34420633)
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... has the full instructions. In addition to creating an add-on collection you need to go to the About page and tap the Firefox logo 5 times to get the proper menu items.
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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by burkaman on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:07PM (#34420817)
Amazing, thanks so much!
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Re:What’s Going on in the World of Extensions by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:28PM (#34422727)
Okay, but that's not am acceptable trade off. There is zero reason why letting the user use arbitrary extensions and the unstable version should be connected.
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