Mobile/Fennec/Android/Development/Addons

Here is an (incomplete) listing of addons you may find useful to add to your Android device's Firefox installation for development purposes.

Copy Profile

Via AMO: This add-on adds a "Copy Profile" item to your Firefox for Android menu. Selecting this menuitem will copy your profile to your sdcard, so that you can use adb to pull it to your desktop.

Profiles can be retrieved via:

adb pull /sdcard/mozilla_profile [<target directory>]

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/android/addon/copy-profile/
• https://github.com/leibovic/copy-profile

Fennec Bootstrapper

Via github: This extension allows you to dynamically load chrome code in mobile/android/chrome/content/ from a remote location. This means you don't need to rebuild to test your changes.

• https://github.com/thebnich/fennec-bootstrapper

Remote Profiler

Gecko has built-in cross platform profiling support. This extension provides a front end.

• https://github.com/bgirard/Gecko-Profiler-Addon/

Miscellaneous

Things that are not addons, but may help with them.

addon-push

Pushes the given file as a Firefox for Android addon via ADB.

• https://github.com/mcomella/addon-push