Firefox desktop extensions to run on Android browser

Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android

With that to-do list ticked off, extensions should be ready for Firefox on Android. DeVaney has promised developers will soon be offered"additional guides, resources and … community events to support your transition to a managed multi-process environment like Android."

A customizable mobile browser may have appeal. Firefox on Android needs that, as statcounter rates its market share as 0.5 percent of the market – well behind Chrome , Apple's Safari , Samsung's browser , Opera's 1.94 percent market share, the Alibaba-connected UC browser's 1.8 percent share, and even the Android native browser's 0.65 percent of the market.

The GSM Association estimates that as of 2022 the world had 5.4 billion unique mobile subscribers and that 76 percent of connections were made using smartphones. Statcounter rates Android's market share at 70.1 percent. Do the math: Firefox on Android may have 14.5 million users – no mean feat, but well behind the billions who use other mobile browsers.

Can an open plugin ecosystem grow adoption of Firefox on Android? Safari already allows extensions in its mobile browser, and workarounds make it possible for Chrome, so it wouldn't be a huge differentiator. Mozilla clearly thinks the effort is worth making. As is often the case, whether developers reach the same conclusion about good uses of their time will determine if Mozilla's Android browser becomes more widely used. ®

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