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Thank you for voicing this perspective! I've switched to Firefox ~3-4 years ago and I've seen considerable progress (on multiple platforms). I'm really grateful that we - internet users - have a great alternative to corporate-backed browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari). Thanks Firefox team!

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Massive regression on Firefox Mobile... they block 99% of extensions nowadays (only about 12 out of thousands are allowed).

You can install other extensions by using Firefox Nightly [1] which is quite stable actually.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

The Collections process is very cumbersome, and I've found that the Collections pages are a bit buggy - for instance, the adding-to-a-collection part uses a separate search bar that doesn't even find a large swath of store extensions for some reason.

It works, but is a decidedly poor experience.

On android, you can keep a copy of Firefox 68.1, ESR, ready to run. If you run in desktop mode, you can use all your favorite old plugins. Then use a Nightly version, for daily browsing, if you are worried about up to date security and features. (ESR= extended service release.)

That's what I do, but even this ESR isn't supported anymore.

Why do you need to create a collection? I was happy when all extensions was the only collection. And this has been in Nightly for about a year.. when is it coming to stable? (those questions aren't really questions, it just looks like Mozilla is trying to make extensions go away)

I agree. However, as an extension author, I was happy to hear that the work I put into making it compatible with Android didn't go to waste after all. Still better than nothing.

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