Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons

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Firefox for Android is adding support for 400+ add-ons - Liliputing

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
It only reverted because of the firefox quantum push in order to make the browser itself faster. Speed was the #1 reason why people jumped from firefox to chrome way back when. While you can still install addons in a roundabout way(through addon collections), none of it was outright verified it was going to work.
Indeed. The old firefox mobile ran very poorly.