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Anything like that for Firefox Android and the extensions that Mozilla didn't whitelist? I followed their procedure for Nightly with a custom add-on collection but it didn't work.

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

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Iceraven on Android makes an attempt to allow additional Firefox add-ons: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

The privacy-oriented Mull fork works with those instructions:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

But Nightly also works with add-on collections for me. Which step are you stuck on?

For some reason I had to try it twice before it worked for me. I started from a brand new collection the second time and followed Mozilla docs to the letter.

I used the same blog post a year ago and it's working with Firefox Nightly from FFUpdater (Fdroid).

Here is mine : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/collections/17173754/t...

Because Android is more locked down than desktop Linux, there unfortunately isn't an easy way to modify Firefox in-place.

If it helps, the biggest issue I had with setting up custom extensions on Firefox Nightly Android using spaces in the collection name.

xposed (lsposed, edxposed, tai chi) lets you hook into apps at runtime if someone was interested in making a mod.

Collection worked for me

Fennec from f-droid is a clone of Firefox Android with some enhancements, including removal of the whitelist.

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