Can't install on Android

[eao]

Hi,

I can't figure out how to install on Android. I tried with the latest version as well as with various v68 and previous versions, both with Fennec F-Droid as well as old versions of official Firefox from the archives. The blue button to add the addon is just greyed out. Any help would be appreciated.

[wareya]

Firefox on android does not currently support installing arbitrary addons. The only solutions are to install an extremely old version of Fennec (which is a big security problem) or to wait for them to slowly add back in support for arbitrary addons (which seems unlikely).

At this point it might be better for me to make a straight-up reader app or something.

[eao]

Hi, thank you for the reply and the clarification. I actually don't mind using an extremely old version of Fennec because I only would use it to read local text files anyway. If anyone finds a version that still lets me install nazeka, security be damned, let me know... :P

[m3at]

@eao you might want to look at using Firefox nightly instead:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/
This is obviously a use at your own risks kind of approach, but it should have less security risks and might be easier (if not easy).

Edit: also if your use case is just to look at occasional words, maybe an other approach is fine too? For example I use the Akebi app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.craxic.akebifree&hl=en&gl=US), and in Firefox (or any app) I can just highlight a word or sentence and open in the app

[quietmansoath]

At this point it might be better for me to make a straight-up reader app or something.

@wareya Can you please? I would actually pay someone to do this at this point. An epub reader for Android with EPWING dict support? PLEASE. m3at's suggested solutions don't work, using old Fennec doesn't work (I went back to version 40, which is so early it's incompatible with my device, and 66, which doesn't allow for nazeka to be installed), and using Akebi or something like it takes way too much time.

There's Typhon, but the UI is terrible and it hasn't been updated in ages. There's also http://read.hibiscus.moe, which has the interface I wish Typhon had--but has no internal dictionary, so it's useless on android, basically. There's really no up to date solution for reading on android right now.

Please pretty please please please please make an epub reader.