This would be fantastic, but as you might know, actually, they’ve been another 7 new supported add-ons, which is a nice number, but of course, still pretty far from complete support of all the AMO extensions. Mozilla is working on it, with each new major version we get a bunch of new supported add-ons, so we need to be patient 
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Bests ^^.
Of course Mozilla have not supported all AMO add-ons yet, but they allow to install arbitrary addons from AMO on Nightly channel for testing. Like about:config, they disable this feature in the release version.
Nice, but what other stuff is changed with that flag?
So you can download the APK? I don’t understand
Currently nothing else, to my knowledge.
I’m not familiar with programming or scripting at all, so my patch is just an example. You can see the commits that implement this feature here.
No, I can’t download a 32 bit version of the Fennec apk (assuming it exists?) since I can’t find the URL for it.
The F-Droid app (also side-loaded) doesn’t give me an URL at all. I have to use the external service like https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid?repo=archive which allows me to drill down to Version 68.12.0 (2020-08-29) and the URL https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689420.apk which unfortunately is a 64 bit version I can’t side-load (see thread on sideloading Fennec apk on ChromeOS (Lenovo Chromebook duet latest) fails : chromeos for the gory details)
So the question is, how can I discover the URL of an apk on the F-Droid repo, without going through the F-Droid application, preferably by just browsing F-Droid Archive (which currently is a 404) or using the Search option there, which currently, unhelpfully, redirects me to the current Fennec F-Droid | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository rather than the archive repo.
The https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689420.apk is not the droid I was looking for, being 64 bit.
Potentially, a related issue is Fennec v62 only available in ARMv8 64bit, not ARMv7 - #6 – perhaps the builds have not been resumed, after all.
Yes, 32bit is 689400: metadata/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid.yml · master · F-Droid / Data · GitLab so → https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689400.apk
Thanks, that did the trick. Sideload works, the version is 68.12.0esr
armv7: https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689400.apk
aarch64: https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689420.apk
x86: https://f-droid.org/archive/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689410.apk
I’m hesitent to enable an unstable feature. Also, someone will have to work with complains that “extension X doesn’t work.”
In my opinion it doesn’t really matter.
First, enabling about:config has potentially similar problems, but I haven’t seen anyone complaining about this to the Fennec F-Droid.
Some of your more “common” settings may work completely differently, not at all, or may actually break your Fenix installation!
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i51k0q/mozilla_could_turn_on_about_config_and_have/g0n9nn0/
Second, even if enabling the general extension installation, it will be hidden by default. Anyone who tries to install add-ons through the complicated way should know about add-on incompatibilities by reading Mozilla’s blog.
Thank you for answering my question. @relan
Makes sense.
OK, I’ll enable the “Custom Add-on collection” setting in Fennec 84 (will be out in a fortnight).
i can never download anything from fennec, it just stalls on any download… i have to use another browser in order to download… why?
Since the “New Fennec F-Droid” has replaced the old one I encountered several issues. Stalling downloads are fixed now but Fennec is still very slow and crashes randomly. I’m on Android 11 and I’m using the standard F-Droid repo. The previous Fennec was fast and stable. Is there any hope that performance issues will be fixed too?
Why you don’t rename it to fenix fdroid, so people won’t get confused?
Because there’s no Fennec to install then, right? How would this help exactly?
Because it will tell people people that is not fennec, it’s fenix
And then what? They’ll install that since there’s no other FOSS up-to-date browser, right?