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They dropped support for every extension sans 5-6 of them. And some of the extensions were incredibly useful.

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You can use any plugin you want on Nightly.

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

It's just that they're not guaranteed to work yet due to all the changes they made to the browser engine.

They got 18 extensions on android now. Including Ublock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere (by EFF), BitWarden, NoScript.

They don't have the main one I care about, and you can't install external extensions (not from their website).

Actually you can. You need nightly and you need to setup some account and set your extensions there. This is just so they can show you that they still work and they have disabled them because reasons. Nicely played.

I'm not sure I understand, you mean I need to use nightly and I need to publish the extensions to AMO myself? Neither of that is going to happen.

You don't need to publish the extensions, but you need to choose the extensions that you want to make available to Firefox. The instructions are here:

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

The stable version of Fennec F-Droid (a fork of Firefox for Android) also supports custom extensions through this method if you don't want to use Firefox Nightly:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

I want to use a non AMO extension

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