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Here's what bugs me: I have a Firefox account. When I log into Firefox on a new machine it automatically installs all my addons and syncs stuff. So why do I have to do this crap to get the same effect on mobile? Why isn't my existing list of browser add-ons not considered a collection, that I can just use? Why do I have to jump through this hoop? It's extremely irritating when things don't "just work" and I have to suddenly care about wtf a collection is and figure out how to create one.

Edit: not ranting at you, just ranting about this stupid extra hoop



At one point I thought collections were shared publicly on Mozilla's add-ons website but I don't see how anymore. They still mention that as the use-case however:

> Collections make it easy to keep track of favorite add-ons and share your perfectly customized browser with others.

I'm not sure collections changes anything in the case of Firefox mobile, the add-ons are still bifurcated.




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