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by jerryzh 1211 days ago
You can enable in about:config and install all plugin with Firefox Nightly
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This feature is also supported in beta, you don't need nightly anymore.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...

Asking people to run nightly (essentially modern alpha/aurora) or beta is asking people to use an insecure browser with bugs.

Firefox not allowing people to control their own browser and install add-ons, enable features, etc without their permission was the end of Firefox for me (back in version 37). This move to trade freedom for "security" for the technologically ignorant ended up providing neither. Especially considering the security theater that is the automated signing portal. The only benefit to all this is the ability to revoke after the damage is done widescale enough to be known.

There are the un-branded builds of Firefox that are not buggy and do not restrict your software freedoms for no purpose. Unfortunately Mozilla has disabled auto-updates in the unbranded builds so you have to manually install the a new full browser for every little update. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...

Yes, just like having people run Tampermonkey instead of Violentmonkey. Mozilla is making things less secure with this whole extension policy.