<story><title>Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options</title><url>https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>commoner</author><text>Since Mozilla isn&amp;#x27;t willing to allow more than 18 pre-selected add-ons on the release and beta channels of Firefox for Android, forks like Iceraven fulfill an unmet need for users who want access to more add-ons, but don&amp;#x27;t want the occasional instability of the nightly channel.&lt;p&gt;One thing that is still missing from Iceraven, Mull, etc. is the ability to sideload add-ons that are not published on addons.mozilla.org. Currently, anyone who wants to use a private Firefox add-on that is not suitable to be published on AMO must install v68 of Firefox or v68 of a fork like Fennec F-Droid.&lt;p&gt;Edit: In one of the Iceraven issues on GitHub (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;fork-maintainers&amp;#x2F;iceraven-browser&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;371#issuecomment-987666123&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;fork-maintainers&amp;#x2F;iceraven-browser&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;), someone recommended a Firefox for Android fork called SmartCookieWeb-Preview for sideloading .xpi add-on files into Firefox from arbitrary URLs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;CookieJarApps&amp;#x2F;SmartCookieWeb-Preview&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;CookieJarApps&amp;#x2F;SmartCookieWeb-Preview&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. The preview app is not available on F-Droid yet, but I&amp;#x27;m going to try it out.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: It worked in SmartCookieWeb-Preview. I had to go into about:config and set &amp;quot;xpinstall.signatures.required&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;false&amp;quot; before sideloading the add-on in the settings (Advanced settings &amp;gt; Sideload XPI). I hope this app makes it into F-Droid soon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options</title><url>https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asimops</author><text>If you are rooted, you can also force your own add-ons into stable firefox like so:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  USER=16201230
  COLLECTION=What-I-want-on-Fenix
  cd &amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;org.mozilla.mozilla.firefox&amp;#x2F;files
  curl -o mozilla_components_addon_collection_*.json &amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;v4&amp;#x2F;accounts&amp;#x2F;account&amp;#x2F;$USER&amp;#x2F;collections&amp;#x2F;$COLLECTION&amp;#x2F;addons&amp;#x2F;?page_size=50&amp;amp;sort=-added&amp;quot;
  touch -a -m -t 203012300130.00 mozilla_components_addon_collection_*.json
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
edit: remove fennec fdroid because TIL that it already has the same add-on override that the FF nightly has. So there is no need for this hack if you have fennec.</text></comment>