iceraven-browser VS Fenix

Iceraven for Android. Vivaldi for Windows.

For Android, I use Iceraven, a Firefox fork built with Firefox stable's code that adds more options, features, customizations, and extensions than Firefox for Android has. So I won't have to switch from that even when the Chromium based browsers potentially all adopt Mv3 fully and drop Mv2, because I've already got a browser on that platform which hopefully will be immune that I'm already using not because of what may happen in the future, but because it's my favorite browser.

This list of Firefox forks was posted not so long ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735443

- librewolf (Desktop) [1]

- Mull (Android) [2]

- Iceraven (Android) [3]

- Mercury (Desktop) [4]

- Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5]

- Waterfox (Desktop) [6]

- Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission

- Pale Moon (Desktop) [8]

- Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9]

- Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10]

This list is not inclusive. It probably contains the famous forks.

[1] https://librewolf.net

[2] https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

[3] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

[4] https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury

[5] https://pulsebrowser.app

[6] https://www.waterfox.net

[7] https://floorp.app/en

[8] https://www.palemoon.org

[9] https://mullvad.net/en/browser

[10] https://www.torproject.org/download/

Iceraven has an extension available called "Video Background Play Fix" that does what you describe.

It should be noted that Iceraven is not compiled from source, ie. it only compiles the UI/app layer, and not the engine or other components.

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/issues/...

Full disclosure: I maintain Mull and Fennec F-Droid.

it's already possible via this Firefox fork https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/release...

Kiwi Browser and Ungoogled Chromium for Android support chrome extensions on mobile. Firefox supports some extensions. Firefox Nightly (warning, unstable) supports even more. Firefox forks like Iceraven, Fennec, and Mull also support extensions. All of these guys support uBlock Origin.

Thanks, is this it? Just want to make sure I'm getting the correct one and not forked. https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Maybe I should also mention Kiwi Browser (Chromium-based) and Iceraven (Firefox-based) specifically for mobile.

Iceraven for Android has a large library of extensions that are really easy to add:

Firefox on Android to this day does not switch to dark mode automatically

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27568

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813529

They're probably mixing the desktop and mobile application up. Its access was disabled in official builds (but forks and custom builds such as some on F-Droid still have it)

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21276

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