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by patrickbolle 2542 days ago
This is a preview version (as mentioned a billion times in the article). Addons are planned by the end of 2019. This is for testing.
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yes, we'll see. But lack of about:config and minimal configuration is frightening :(
Like others have said, uBlock Origin ( or solid alternative; uMatrix, etc ) at this point is a prerequisite for any browser.

I am not testing something that puts me in danger and throws me into the festering garbage dumpster that internet is these days without it. It's like testing a car that doesn't have brakes yet.

Protection in layers.

Pi-hole at the DNS level, ublock origin and fingerprint protection at the browser level.

If the latter two are missing because I'm testing a beta browser which is very likely to a) deliver them and b) help defend against a chrome monoculture, I feel alright about sshing into a VPS to update pi-hole and then taking it for a spin.

So don't test, it's not mandatory...
I am a developer and spend half my work time in Firefox Nightly. This is not usable for me despite being exactly the target for this preview.
The target of a preview is not people expecting it to be feature complete, so no, you're not the target.
Tell me how am I supposed to test add-ons on this Firefox as a developer before the release then.

Edit : And again, most of my work if not all related to Firefox, I do on the Nightly build. I expect things to break, but this preview ( of which there have been builds for a while already ) is a non-starter.

Why are you assuming that addons will be added in the GA release, and not some version prior to the GA release?
Simple, wait until addons are supported.
It's not like other previewers can run add-ons anyway, it will come in time.