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Waterfox for Android
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[Android] enable using desktop add-ons #44

Closed nofishonfriday closed 8 months ago

nofishonfriday commented 9 months ago

Hi,

first of all, very happy to see Waterfox for Android happening, thank you, and sorry for posting here as the Android repo doesn't seem to have 'Issues' enabled.

My FR/suggestion: There are not many official add-ons for Firefox Android available currently, but there's a workaround to also use FF desktop version add-ons, but it's a bit tedious and involves needing a FF account. Could this 'workaround' be (optionally) enabled on WF for Android so it's possible to use desktop add-ons out of the box?

nofishonfriday commented 9 months ago

If I understand correctly this will work if WaterfoxCo/Waterfox-Android#43 is implemented, so feel free to close this in case.

MrAlex94 commented 8 months ago

On a technical level, this is now done.

Problem is, Mozilla redirect on the homepage and grey out the button for allowing you to install Desktop apps specifically. But there are over 500 add-ons or so on the Android store, which is a big improvement.

If you do a general user agent override, then you can install any add-on your heart desires! I've been umming and ahing about maybe overriding the UA for AMO, but feel like long term that may cause issues. I'll close the issue, but feel free to comment regarding the UA override.

Slightly different from the other bug regarding sideloading.

nofishonfriday commented 8 months ago

Thank you for implementing this!

I've been umming and ahing about maybe overriding the UA for AMO, but feel like long term that may cause issues. I'll close the issue, but feel free to comment regarding the UA override.

I think if Waterfox allows overriding the UA for AMO it shouldn't be enabled by default, rather a user setting with a warning, so users are aware they install potentially incompatible add ons.