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Fenix
Discontinued ⚠️ 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
The thing I miss most in Firefox is the Smart Bookmarks feature they removed a while ago. Smart Bookmarks were fantastic. Add your favorite sites' RSS feeds to your bookmark toolbar and you'd have all the recent headlines from all your favorite sites at one click. Fortunately I wasn't the only one that appreciated this long neglected feature so someone created Livemarks (https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/) that mostly replicated its functionality, but it's not quite the same as having native support for them.
See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle and how the Internet Archive is using it:
https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
I love all of the work that Mozilla do to make the web a better, more privacy focused place.
A little time tinge of disappointment though, is that the new Firefox for Android doesn't work at all with Lastpass' autofill. I've tried to find bug reports (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9773) but they don't give me a clear indication as to whether it's being worked on or not. Unfortunately degrades my experience to the point of using other browsers. It doesn't seem like the old Firefox is available via the Play store in the meantime either?
It's probably inevitable when you release a completely new version of something, but the small, missing features immediately become obvious/upsetting!