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[–] 56 points 4 months ago

It does not mean Firefox can no longer be installed or run on non-certified or rooted Android devices, but it might mean that users on non-certified or rooted devices can’t access all AI features in Firefox for Android.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    I've moved to Fennec and I'm very happy with it. If only it had Zen's workspaces it would be absolutely god-like

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    What does Fennec even do?

    When I tried to look into it a few weeks ago I found very little information. The links on the f-droid page went to Mozilla repo's.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    This is the repo. It has a very small description of the project. https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

    The F-Droid page is, for better and for worse, the place with the most information about the project. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The reason I first used it was they had a way to bypass the limited list of extensions that Mozilla allowed to be installed but this is no longer an issue so no real idea what the benefit is anymore. I'd guess at disabled telemetry but don't quote me on that.

    I switched to Ironfox a while back but still keep fennec around for the occasional site that Ironfox breaks.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    It does not mean Firefox can no longer be installed or run on non-certified or rooted Android devices, but it might mean that users on non-certified or rooted devices can’t access all AI features in Firefox for Android.

    For those curious it's just used for ai features. Plenty of valid reasons to be frustrated with Mozilla anyway though (its valid even just to be unhappy they implemented it at all, even in a limited way. It still normalizes the usage of the integrity check)

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