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conceptualspace / tablist

📑 Browser extension to list the URLs of all open tabs
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-list/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Unable to install in Firefox for Android #3

Open codethief opened 2 years ago

codethief commented 2 years ago

On Firefox for Android v95.2.0, the "Add the Firefox" button on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-list/ is grayed out and there's a notice below saying "To find add-ons compatible with Firefox for Android". Am I doing anything wrong?

conceptualspace commented 2 years ago

thanks for the comment @codethief . tablist used to work on android but there are currently a couple of issues

  1. to your point specifically, mozilla disabled general support for extensions on android and only allows installation from their curated list of ~ 100 "recommended extensions":

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-firefox-android

there is a workaround you can try if you use firefox nighty, although i have not tested it:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/

  1. the second issue is a bug resulting from power management in firefox, which offloads the details of any inactive tabs, effectively rendering them invisible to any webextensions API. this means the list generated by tablist may be incomplete until this bug is resolved (i encourage anyone with time to submit a patch upstream!). i'm tracking this one as well in issue #2:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/

cheers

codethief commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the update, @conceptualspace! Especially the second point is disheartening – I ran into exactly the same issue when writing my own extension for this purpose a while ago. I thought (hoped) you had solved it. :)