WebLibre seems to be the only one Firefox “little sister” that supports Bangs. As far I haven’t seen that in any of Firefox clones, no for PC, not for Android.
Anyway, WL in some aspects is even more immature than Fennec.
What is the added value of “bangs” compared to Firefox ^ and * in the address bar, and compared to keyword searches ?
What exactly? Poor loading? Or bug with cleaning?
the topic, loading slow when using certain extensions
Unfortunately unusable, contrary to Wasserwulf and IcearRaben.
Hello!
Any idea when this will be finally fixed and an update available?
As it works fine on other Firefox Android projects, it seems that the bug is by F-Droids custom adaptions, or due F-Droid is outdated compared to upstream.
Can you please fix it, or tell when it will be fixed roughly?
Is there any F-Droid GitLab ticket or alike to get status/progress on this?
Thanks everybody for providing this!
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sure, it’s hard to remove the $hit from Mozilla
it’s not
work in progress
yes, you’ve seen it linked above as the solution
What browser do you use during Fennec malfunction? 
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I just close the screen, when i reopen it’s still Fennec, but working fine 
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Hanging up and websites not loading issue is so frustrating that I switched away from fennec.
I thought it was issue on my end but it seems like it is fennec bug affecting many people.
Why does not f-droid re-releases old working fennec with current version code so that it will be easily downgraded and when upstream version is fixed release a minor version bumped up apk
Because
- Old Fennec versions have security vulnerabilities.
- Not everyone uses extensions and thus there users not affected by this bug.
- New app versions often modify the format of internal databases (where they keep settings, etc.). When old code starts working with a new database format, the result can be unpredictable.
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Any news on fixing? 
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Build Sucess
Next update with in few days
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That’s the Ci only
But yes, arm7 and arm64 (log: org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid:1420110 - F-Droid Monitor) were built, up next x86 then we wait for the rest of the apps
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fennec is still slow at loading sites
i’m on a Galaxy A5 2017 on stock rom and not rooted. the prob is it’s frustratingly slow at loading sites. i’m using 142.0.1 updateof fennec.
if it was just sites i could say it’s a performance issue but it’s same in the the search. i tried using all search engine but still the same and i tried searching for fixes… and tried some (they were for the earlier version 142.0). nothing made any progress. tried disabling the extensions no change. tried a fresh install no change and tried clearing data and no change so i tried it on another device Redmi 14C and even there the problem was the same it takes about 10 secs to load even the search results
can anybody help?
That a5 is slow to begin with.
Did you install Firefox and that is fast? Eg. Use FFupdater to download it
Hi, my dear FOSS lovers. Thank you for the fixing of Fennec connection lag.
How to make Fennec as fast as Iceraven?
For a couple months of testing no other gecko browser was as fast in this test as iceraven.
For a comparison it’s the Waterfox test:
The worst nightmare was IronFox where even after some clues given to configure, it was slower of all Fifox little children. Btw. Without that configuration it was even impossible to browse the web…
You need to admit that 30% of speed in the artificial benchmark still makes a difference, but it’s easily visible in everyday work.
It’s rather to use Fennec or even Iceraven while even DDG is much faster with it’s built in dark mode.
Should I go for even tiniet webview browser or what?
Depends on what you’re after.
Cause would that be faster? Sure I mean the webview is naturally faster so a webview browser would probably be faster.
However other than that the cons in my opinion are really. Really not worth the trade off from a full Chromium or Gecko based browser.
- The Webview is either going to have a pretty terrible update schedule but be FOSS, have proprietary bits in it or be proprietary altogether. There is no inbetween. As such if you want to keep up on updates so you can have half decent security you need a webview with at least some proprietary components in it. This makes webview browsers kind of a illusion of choice in my opinion. Cause while the Browser itself can be FOSS yes. In most cases the implementation of how it renders webpages will not be FOSS (let alone open source if you’re on any store shelf OEM) And thus makes them technically dependent on Non Free bits. You can’t really blame them for this however cause that is up for you as the user to control but still. At the same time it doesn’t make it less true.
- The Webview is inherently limited. It’s security is not much better than a Gecko Browser currently and it falls far behind Chromium aswell. Likely because the webview was never intended to power a full browser experience. But also it simply is restricted in what all it can do. DuckDuckGo is really pushing the limit of all it can do because they have to work with what the Webview allows them to work with. Compare this to Chromium or Gecko where you can actually patch and make improvements onto them cause they aren’t restricted in the same ways due to them being completely standalone.
So I would say unless you really need that extra performance you should probably stick with Fennec.
Edit: also in regards to Iceraven being faster they make a lot of unstable changes to the browser on a regular basis. Maybe one of those changes is performance focused? Cause it’s important to keep in mind Fennec doesn’t diverge much configuration wise from normal Firefox. Iceraven does. A lot. So the best way to find that out might be to ask the Iceraven devs or try and do some research about certain things you can change in about:config to improve performance.
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Thank you for your opinion. My issues for further inquiries.
Fennec or Iceraven on daily basis.
While I checked DDG lately it had some weird connections to… Micro$oft, 
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