Are you a Firefox user on PC and Android? Then you have reason to expect, and that is Mozilla has announced that it will “unlock the potential of Firefox on Android”, opening the fence to make it available to its Android users. most extensions which has a browser on a PC. It will be, they congratulate themselves, the first of the giants to offer something like this.

In fact, he is the first of the greats to do so already, although not at the level that is coming. We are talking about enabling the installation of extensions, just as it can be done on a PC, which exponentially increases the functionality of the browser. At this time, yes, Android Firefox only allows certain extensions, including some of the most popular and requested ones, such as ad and tracking blockers, password managers, and other types of tools.

Of course, it is possible to install extensions the main attraction of Firefox for Android, where the competition has a snack in the rest of the technical aspects. One could even say that the possibility of installing extensions is its only attraction, since the user base of the browser is the one that pulls from PC, they have convinced in many cases users whose choice is guided by arguments other than performance. Be that as it may, the step is bold.

As explained on Mozilla’s blog, the change will come later, but this year. In the meantime, he advises extension developers to adapt some of the extension’s features to work better on Android, a mobile ecosystem that differs from the desktop in some ways. That being said, these are specific options, so extensions will work as they do now.

Not all of them will, of course. Although it is expected that most can be installedThere are those whose functionality is not only tied to PCs, but to specific platforms, i.e. operating systems that are officially supported by Mozilla, Linux, Mac and Windows browsers. This will make it easier to directly install extensions from the Firefox store, as is the case now, limited by the supported platform.

We’ll have to see how Firefox’s current Android user base takes it, as extensions are – on PC too, mind you – double-edged swords; and It will be necessary to see if this does not presuppose some repulsion in the general area, as it will most likely become the most powerful browser on the scene at a functional level. The good thing is that no one forces you to use only one browser, and as a tool it will be good to count on it.

In a different order, the launch of Firefox 116 was announced just a week ago, the news of which we will tell you on this link.