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There is in fact a way to plug in your own whitelist if you use Firefox Nightly [1]. It's a bit of a hassle though, and it's so obscure that I'm fairly sure almost nobody is aware of it.

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

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Excellent, thank you! This also works in Mull, the "...privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology." https://www.f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

I use this !

When this was released I switch back from IceRaven to Firefox as I prefer a browser that receives timely updates.

then you could try fennec from f-droid, which enables custom extensions and about:config, but unlike iceraven is compiled from firefox stable release, so it is updated shortly after a new firefox stable release.

Last time I used Fennec, it had the same extension whitelist as Firefox. Did that change?

Fennec F-Droid does have the same extension whitelist by default, but it also supports the Collections workaround that adds access to all add-ons on addons.mozilla.org:

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

Since Firefox Nightly is unstable, some users prefer to use Firefox forks like Fennec F-Droid and Mull that are based on the stable release channel, yet also offer expanded add-on support.

Regrettably collections that try to enable everything are cut off at 25 or 50 in Firefox, so it's still not a practical way to recover your disabled addons unless you register with a custom collection.

Unless someone out there made an anonymous collection autogenerator. That'd be nice.

I take a mental note to try it but I like nightly, I also use it on my desktop and I prefer it to normal Firefox. I doesn't exactly know why but there is something about the regular release that rubs me the wrong way.

I gave it a try weeks ago and it's not working for me. It keeps using only the addons I had before I attempted the suggested procedure.

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