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Publishing to F-Droid
See F-Droid's contributing doc for more details. Templates for the contents of this file can be found here. Additional details on each metadata field's meaning and use can be found on their metadata reference page here. Here is what my metadata file looked like:
- Como deixar o celular mais seguro?
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couple of questions on Fdroid, Aurora, and stock apps.
F-droid is very safe, just make sure to use trusted repositories because apps have to be accepted before they even get to F-droid that way. They have a list of trusted repositories found on GitLab.
- Updated Repo List?
- Questions about Bromite
- Why aren't official Firefox apps on F-Droid?
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Privacy on Android without resetting phone (Custom OS or root) [Update v3]
here is a list of most known Repositories
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Improve Privacy without resetting your phone (No Root or Custom ROM)
I personally use Fennec FDroid. Its Firefox Nightly with removed telemetry, as far as I understood. - In this post you can find an explanation on how to get important desktop addons (NoScript, Ninja Cookie, CanvasBlocker, ...) to your android Firefox browser with a little hack. - You can also harden mobile Firefox through the about:config. There will come a dedicated post to the available options, but Mozillas Site already provides a good list of settings (not all are there on mobile). - I highly recommend privacy.firstparty.isolate = true, as its the exchange for container addons (isolates every site making them obsolete)
- List of F-Droid repositories is now on the Wiki!
- There is now a list of Reposirories in the Wiki!
Fenix
- Firefox on Android does not support client certificates
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Website Search Hurts My Feelings
It's been that way for years: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20351
I lost hope it and other issues would be fixed and moved to Chromium on Android.
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Andriod app and Web are synced but..
Firefox for Android was rewritten pretty much from scratch circa 2020. Collections are one of its many unfinished and poorly-thought-out features, and they never got around to implementing the ability to sync Collections to desktop. It was a known problem in 2019, while the rewrite was being worked on, and Mozilla doesn't appear to have given it any attention in the years since.
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Firefox on Android: Home Button
People have been asking for this for over a year via Mozilla's current feedback channels, and for two years on the previous issue-reporting venue, to no avail. It was automatically moved from the old venue to Bugzilla ostensibly because Bugzilla makes it easier to track and work on issue reports, but they haven't actually worked on that issue report at all.
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Is it me or Firefox?
Known issue, not a new issue, and unlikely to be fixed any time soon, unfortunately. I had this before I stopped using the Android version a year ago. It was reported as a bug at least a year ago on their old issue tracker, and later moved to the current one, where last activity on the issue report was three months ago. No apparent progress toward any fix.
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Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
Since Fenix's first release they've been saying that the absurd limitations on add-ons support were only temporary, and they would have quickly increased the number of supported ones.
And instead absolutely nothing changed for three years.
Furthermore the insane bugs from which Fenix suffers from its release (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731) (making it unbearable) have been left hanging, focusing the few resources on dumb ui experiments.
So everything suggested that Mozilla did not care of its Android browser, or actually that they were deliberately sabotaging it.
This news instead represents a huge improvement, hence my bewilderment.
I don't know what people who downvoted my message thought I meant.
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Trying to abandon chrome, but firefox is not doing well in my testing! Suggestions?
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20012 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101865
- Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
- For #19918: Add option to hide the toolbar home button (Firefox For Android)
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Firefox Address Bar Tips
This was sadly deprecated on Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099
It was such a huge loss for me that for at least a year I used the outdated pre-Fenix. Now they still work on Desktop but they just stopped working on Android (althouth the bookmarks itself are synced-up)
What are some alternatives?
wgtunnel - An alternative Android client app for WireGuard VPN
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
foxy-droid - Yet another F-Droid client
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
sign_in
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
ObjectBox Java (Kotlin, Android) - Java and Android Database - fast and lightweight without any ORM
darkreader - Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension
src - Source-code used in Kiwi Browser for Android
multi-account-containers - Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
filtrite - Custom AdBlock filterlist generator for Bromite and Cromite
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.