I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.

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    Here’s what I did:

    • created a new collection and added few addons
    • copied the collection id from the URL
    • opened Firefox nightly and enabled custom collection menu
    • input the collection id
    • Firefox quits
    • when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”

    edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now. Thank you for your help! :)

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      1 year ago
      when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”
      
      

      edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now.

      I’m getting this same error. Added the collection ID and the name where?

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          It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.

          I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡

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            You don’t need to use desktop firefox to do this, you can do the entire process on your phone

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                  I’ve just spent another 45 minutes trying to install add-ons via Fennec ONLY. It just doesn’t work. I only have access to “approved” extensions.

                  However, when I go to my custom collection in a desktop browser I have full access to firefox addons (as you described we would)–but I have to first search and add them to the collection from the desktop browser.

                  When that’s completed, THEN I can go to Fennec and navigate to the collection and tap the “+” sign to install them into Fennec.

                  🤷‍♂️

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                  I’ve just spent another 45 minutes trying to install add-ons via Fennec ONLY. It just doesn’t work. I only have access to “approved” extensions.

                  However, when I go to my custom collection in a desktop browser I have full access to firefox addons (as you described we would)–but I have to first search and add them to the collection from the desktop browser.

                  When that’s completed, THEN I can go to Fennec and navigate to the collection and tap the “+” sign to install them into Fennec.

                  🤷‍♂️

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                    Hm, idk I was able to create the collections with desktop addons on mobile (fennec as well), didn’t need a desktop.

                    I get that its more inconvenient to get the addons this way though, maybe if everyone complained to mozilla they’d consider unlocking desktop addons by default rather than having users resort to this.