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Then try it on a tablet, and go "What is this BS?" and start using Chrome, despite the fact that there is no NoScript, about:config, etc.

Oh wait, no, just NoScript, because about:config doesn't work in Firefox for Android anymore.



About:config works just fine on my Android phone with Firefox 81.1.1-beta5. What seems to be the problem?


about:config was not working on my Android phone, 80.1.3. Ran the latest update to 81.1.1, still not working. Guess it might be in the next release?


It is only enabled on Nightly and Beta.


Why is that? about:config is something I use all the time.


Because huge chunks of are broken in the new browser engine, and could leave your browser in an unrecoverable state.


(I work on GeckoView at Mozilla.)

about:config prefs are not "broken," but many of them work much differently in GeckoView than they work in desktop.

Setting some prefs to the wrong value could completely disconnect Gecko from the embedding app.


I guess we just have different definitions of what "broken" means, since disconnecting Gecko sounds fairly broken to me. :)




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