Fenix VS android-components

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20012 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101865

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It was such a huge loss for me that for at least a year I used the outdated pre-Fenix.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)

Like this one: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/pull/9948 It adds keyboard shortcuts and has been open since 1.5 years. The discussion there ended with a question by the would-be contributor, to which he didn't get an answer, because the Mozilla employee that was working with him was fired in the big layoffs of 2020 (at least, that employee suddenly stopped using their work Github account).

The /s is not necessary here, since Mozilla has literally built a UI framework for Firefox on Android: Mozilla Android Components

It was part of some immersive mode changes that are unrelated to the other problem you linked.

Mozilla has a library with components to build a web browser: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components

Sounds like https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/3986

There is no refresh. You need to need to wait on the fix for https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/22877 which is https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/pull/11419 to make its way to nightly. The next build should have that update.

See android-components