They already were the first? I still remember when I upgraded Firefox on my phone and all of the extensions were gone. It’s nice that they’re finally bringing them back after all these years, but it’s just a return to the way things used to be.
EDIT: Headline here was changed from the original article, which doesn’t claim “first”, just “only”.
They rewrote the Firefox core, which was definitely good for performance and stability. The change also coincided with the deprecation of XUL addons, which removed a lot of desktop addons as well.
Ever since the rewrite, they’ve kept a small whitelist of addons that usually mostly work. You can make your own list of addons in the settings if you run the beta/nightly version. A lot of addons don’t work, though, because the UI elements that they interact with aren’t available (yet) on mobile.
They already were the first? I still remember when I upgraded Firefox on my phone and all of the extensions were gone. It’s nice that they’re finally bringing them back after all these years, but it’s just a return to the way things used to be.
EDIT: Headline here was changed from the original article, which doesn’t claim “first”, just “only”.
They rewrote the Firefox core, which was definitely good for performance and stability. The change also coincided with the deprecation of XUL addons, which removed a lot of desktop addons as well.
Ever since the rewrite, they’ve kept a small whitelist of addons that usually mostly work. You can make your own list of addons in the settings if you run the beta/nightly version. A lot of addons don’t work, though, because the UI elements that they interact with aren’t available (yet) on mobile.
I was also confused about it