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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by FrankWilhoit on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:06AM (#38189299)
What Mozilla need to be doing is porting the desktop Firefox codebase to Android, full stop.
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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by notpushkin on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:36AM (#38202899)
Isn't it largely what it is though? Apart from the UI – it used to be XUL [1], like on desktop, but for some reason got replaced with native UI.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Architecture

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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by iggldiggl on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:03AM (#38203506)
If I remember correctly, "some reason" being horrible performance.
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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by notpushkin on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:37AM (#38203751)
Most likely, yeah.
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