Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

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That's nice, maybe they can finally re-enable about:config in the damn thing too. They removed it from mobile Firefox years ago and the lack of it aggravates the hell out of me.

Fennec still supports it, just as it supports add-ons from the official Mozilla store. Don't see any reason why I should go back to the official app.

Fennec is awesome. I'm never going back to anything else.

Yup. Unless they break anything, which I can't really imagine at this point.

Is there an easy way to migrate from the official app to Fennec? Keeping accounts, extensions and settings?

If you have enabled the sync feature in Firefox, it seamlessly works with Fennec; as does the integration between Fennec and Firefox Desktop. Simply log on with your Firefox account in Fennec, and you won't even feel the difference.

How do I make use of this? I can't see a way to install them on my Fennec from F Droid

You have to add a custom addons collection. That's how.

I haven't gotten around making them and using them, and it seems every guide online is vastly out of date