android VS Fenix

Compare android vs Fenix and see what are their differences.

Fenix

⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android (by mozilla-mobile)
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android Fenix
26 750
2,052 6,681
3.8% -
9.5 7.7
1 day ago about 1 year ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Mozilla Public License 2.0
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android

Posts with mentions or reviews of android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

Fenix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fenix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • Firefox on Android does not support client certificates
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
  • Website Search Hurts My Feelings
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    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.

  • Andriod app and Web are synced but..
    1 project | /r/firefox | 7 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Firefox on Android: Home Button
    1 project | /r/firefox | 4 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Is it me or Firefox?
    1 project | /r/firefox | 4 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
    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.

  • Trying to abandon chrome, but firefox is not doing well in my testing! Suggestions?
    1 project | /r/browsers | 24 Oct 2023
    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
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
  • For #19918: Add option to hide the toolbar home button (Firefox For Android)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023
  • Firefox Address Bar Tips
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023
    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?

When comparing android and Fenix you can also consider the following projects:

room-assistant - Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level

iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser

WearAuthn - Use your Wear OS watch as a FIDO2 security key via Bluetooth and NFC.

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

find3 - High-precision indoor positioning framework, version 3.

darkreader - Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

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.

dohot - DoHoT: making practical use of DNS over HTTPS over Tor

Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.