Comment by Helmut10001 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Helmut10001 | Hacker News Reader

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You are right, according to this [1] Fennec is discontinued in favor of Fenix! I only use it for very simple stuff (HN, selfhosted apps etc.), so I did not notice. Yet, looking at the F-Droid store [2], Fennec indeed is available in a recent version (109.2.0) and it is being bumped by Mozilla [3].

    [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ih9vmb/firefox_for_android_fenix_79_release_fennec_is/
    [2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
    [3]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/0861f91fd39e56a13a7664e588fcf53860e0d7ba

Confusingly, Fennec F-Droid is Fenix.

In the description on the F-Droid page it says "Fennec F-Droid is based on the latest Firefox release (codenamed Fenix).".

Thanks for the clarification! This is what I suspected, too. What matters to me is that it works with custom extension lists. I am not sure I understood what was special about the original "2020 Fennec".

There's also a note from someone on Reddit [1]:

> Fennec is also F-Droid's firefox version. It differs from official ones by having proprietary bits and all telemetry removed as well as unlocked about:config at the moment.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nff8sv/comment/gyl...

Are you using a recent version of F-Droid fennec (which may be fenix instead), and if so does this one support arbitrary plugins? Did F-droid manage to modify it for that?

What do you mean with Plugins? It works with custom extension lists (e.g. I have idontcareaboutcookies and privacy redirect installed).

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