A little while back Mozilla put out a post ushering addon developers to prep their addons but I haven’t heard anything else since, I don’t wanna update to early and loose everything I already got

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We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, but it’s safe to expect a roll-out before the year’s end.

src. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

AFAIK, no date has yet been announced

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No, they only announced plans to work together with devs to make the transition to mobile easier. It wasn’t a “all addons will work on Firefox android” announcement. Hopefully most popular addons transition

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Everything I personally use works on the beta version through the collection method.

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Yup same. Here’s my collection in case it’s useful for anyone else:

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android13oneui5-1

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on mobile i use brave because its the only app on ios that will background play youtube com videos without a fuss while also removing video player ads (among the rest).

if firefox allowed a plugin, or just supported this feature outright, i would have 0 reason not to use firefox on all of my devices.

i wish theyd stop sleeping on users like me.

e: hate me all you want for it, im still right.

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thanks a ton, never knew this worked

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no problem! it may act like other browsers before you enable background play in the browsers options menu.

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On mobile I use Firefox to accomplish the same thing you just mentioned

Edit: Video Background Play Fix + ublock

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to my knowledge plugins only exist for android, as i said im on ios so brave is the only option without sideloading or running old firmware for jailbreak.

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Doesn’t Yattee do this also?

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ive never heard of it, i looked at it a little and it seems to be more of a self host thing, which is a potential nightmare for a casual users sanity and security. feel free to clarify if im mistaken.

brave blocks ads IN and out of the (mobile web) yt video player, and plays video in the background(lockscreen) with no setup at all out of the box.

to my knowledge there is not a single other first party app on the ios app store that does this.

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Firefox isnt allowed to have addons, that could make the user have free choice.

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what? im pretty sure thats apples doing as android and desktop has plugins.

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If you create an addon collection, you can install any addon already… Its fucking ridiculous that Mozilla did this though and its a pain in the ass to setup

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Can you please share the steps on how to create add-on collection ? I am using android.

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Thank you :)

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All is a very large expectation. Best you get is all that Dev.s continue to support.

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Nope

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