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Where's the Android version?

As usual, Firefox for Android is an afterthought.

Firefox Android blocks the vast majority of addons by default for some reason... you have to create a collection, add the add-ons you want to the collection and then setup Firefox to use that collection. They made it as painful as possible.

It didn't used to be like that, all addons were easily accessible in the Fennec engine (I think around v68)... Fennix is the problem.

> Fennix is the problem.

Maybe not:

> A CPU that supports SSE4.1 extensions is required for this addon to function properly.

So, AMD64 CPU's only, which means just about all Android platforms are out.

Despite using SSE it's slower than sending it to Google using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-pagi... Nonetheless it's very usable on a desktop. But if it was a factor of 2 or 3 slower on Android - perhaps not, and it would be a real battery killer.

A bigger problem is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-pagi... is not available on Android either. That's the No.1 reason I fire up Chrome on Android.

Maybe not in this case... but generally, it appears to be true for most extensions.

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