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There are a couple of differences between desktop Firefox and Firefox for Android that are particularly relevant to add-on developers:

  • there is no visible XUL in the user interface, so you can't use XUL overlays to create your add-on's UI
  • the gBrowser object does not exist, so you can't use tabbrowser to interact with browser tabs

Instead, Firefox for Android provides its own APIs:

In these pages we've documented the main functions and properties exposed by these objects. To see all the details, refer to the code at browser.js.

We also have some modules that don't ship with Firefox for Android but can be used in addons:

  • Sound.jsm lets you play sounds in the browser simply

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