I feel a bit silly asking this but no matter what I do, I can’t load the Mozilla add-on page in Ironfox. I’m on a Pixel 8a, up to date Android, and I have changed every setting I can find in Ironfox and it simply will not load. I can get to the extension page in settings but when I click the purple button it goes to the browser and stalls. Even if I put in the base Mozilla address it stalls.

I’m just trying to install Privacy Badger!

I’d really appreciate if anyone could suggest anything that might help.

Thanks!

  • gewuerzwiesel@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I had this issues on different devices, recently.

    On one (tablet with lineageos), Rethink was running and blocked the connection to Mozilla’s Add-on page in its firewall. Allowing Ironfox entries within firewall settings of Rethink fixed it.

    On the other device (Samsung smartphone with Samsung branded Android), I first had to search within the security settings for entries that sounded like they prevent the installation of addons within an app and just temporarily deactivated them.

    So, beside the already mentioned DNS cobfiguration, you might check firewall settings, if firewall is installed, or go through the “security” settings, if you are on a branded Android.