Firefox Nightly for Android Now Allows Add-on Installation from Files!

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Firefox Nightly for Android has finally implemented the feature most power users have been waiting for – the ability to install add-ons directly from .xpi files!

Accessing the Debug Menu:

  • Open Firefox Nightly and navigate to ‘Settings’.
  • Scroll to ‘About Firefox Nightly’.
  • Tap the Firefox logo swiftly five times. This will unlock the ‘Secret Settings’ in your main Settings menu.

Installing Your Add-ons:

  • Once you’re back in the main ‘Settings’ menu, you’ll see a new option: ‘Install add-on from file’.
  • Select the .xpi file you’ve saved on your device, and voilà! Your add-on will be installed.
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Time to download bypass paywalls clean!

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It took years for Mozilla to finally understand that if people can install addon from file by going through many many menus, they’re knowledge enough to not install bad addons, that’s just simple.

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Fyi you can install every addon. Just to to https://addons.mozilla.org/ and set your browser to desktop mode.

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Will this allow custom UX changes? I really want a tablet mode UI

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one thing i want to be improved is download, good firefox is so shit about files I’m downloading. I always had to open up chrome when downloading a huge file

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Where do you find those bad add-ons, you’d have to really really intentionally do it.

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Just 2 months after I found it’s easy to sideload them from any site using remote debugging interface.

I hope those “xpi’s from file” won’t have problems with auto updates.

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Ice°raven added that a week or something ago and I gotta say, it’s really nice

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When are addons coming to Focus I wanna read my shit in dark mode :sob:

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you can already download it from the firefox extension website normally ^^

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You don’t need it, if you use Ublock Origin. Which I hope you do since it works better in Firefox.

  1. Install Ublock Origin

  2. Add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/master/antipaywall.txt & https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt to the “Import…” section of “My Filters” in Ublock Origin.

  3. Click “Apply changes” and “Update Now”

  4. Enjoy mostly unpaywalled content and ad free internet!

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https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

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There has long been official Android install instructions.

Basically, install an old version of Firefox, install the .xpi, then update Firefox. BPC auto updates itself.

https://github.com/qnoum/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean-magnolia1234#installation

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No need, i can use mobile version

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Exactly have been waiting for over 5 years now hoping they would atleast integrate a basic download manager but all they have to show is a notification banner. And guess what for me never in my life has the pause button worked. Pause basically means that after resuming the download, the file would become corrupted. So annoying

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why is there a dot in iceraven

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I think that’s different from the original one

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I did not know this! Just installed it, thanks for the heads-up.

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This solution works very well & seems to be the easiest proposed solution. Thanks!