In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
Not an expert but as I’ve understood it it’s pretty similar to Fennec, less tracking and more private than your regular Firefox. I don’t know anything about either ones development team size or activity either so I can’t recommend one over the other. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.
I read a comment here from someone who maintained one of them. I think their update cycles are different and Fennec basically creates a new build whenever Firefox in upstream makes one with the extra stuff that Fennec does. This was a while ago so my info may not be fully factual, but the comment confirmed to me that Fennec was a good choice for me.
For those who don’t know yet: Firefox Nightly for Android let you install any extension you desire.
You just need to create a custom collection on the web site and link your ID in nightly.
Same for Firefox forks, Mull and Fennec.
Yep. I always mention Fennec who may hesitate to use Beta since it’s a stable release with full add-on support.
I’ve never tried Mull.
Not an expert but as I’ve understood it it’s pretty similar to Fennec, less tracking and more private than your regular Firefox. I don’t know anything about either ones development team size or activity either so I can’t recommend one over the other. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can chime in.
Mull’s made by the people at DivestOS
They have a browser comparison of some popular android browsers including Fennec and Mull https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
I read a comment here from someone who maintained one of them. I think their update cycles are different and Fennec basically creates a new build whenever Firefox in upstream makes one with the extra stuff that Fennec does. This was a while ago so my info may not be fully factual, but the comment confirmed to me that Fennec was a good choice for me.
You can also just use the collections of other users
Like mine, for those who don’t want to curate: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/17401236/p1xiekat-Android/
Maybe add PrivacyBadger, Consent-O-Matic, and DarkReader
Noted and added!
Nice, I also added LocalCDN to my own list.
Firefox Beta as well.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/