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I ditched Google Chrome for Firefox for a week, and I finally see the appeal (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 13 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

I just switched from Firefox for Android to Fennec, which is the exact same browser bundled by the Mozilla Foundation, with slightly fewer proprietary bits and bops than normal Firefox and available on F-droid. My Mozilla account still syncs and it all works perfectly.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Firefox for Android is still great, but it's nice to see some love for those of us who prefer to stick with open source projects all the way.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's not in the official F-droid repository, which runs thorough code review and I quite trust, and I also do not know who the developers are. I'm sure it's a fine project, but my main concern personally was to move away from Aurora towards F-droid as much as possible. I have given up on getting away from Mozilla before Servo is ready, and until then I'm much happier to use something packaged by the Foundation than the Corporation.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    True, and I get your preference. I used to use Fennec, then moved to Mull, and now IronFox. Fennec makes sense if you want stock Firefox that’s fully FOSS and straight from F-Droid’s main repo. I lean toward IronFox because I want the hardening it carried over from Mull. I'm iinstalling through Accrescent and at least guarantees I’m getting exactly what they published, unmodified.

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