Very recently Mozilla has launched version 75.0 of Firefox (Fennec) Beta, with the whole new GeckoView GUI and a lot of improvements in terms of privacy, security and functionality. I really love the work that has been done, since I really felt that the old version lacked a lot of options when it comes to customization, but at the same time they do an awful job at having a release channel where there aren’t Google services for Android, they offer a .APK release on their web site (which is pretty hidden, though) but with this way you can auto-update or known when there’s a new update to install it yourself, and I think that trackers are still there.
Will F-Droid contributors be able to keep releasing Fennec when this version reaches stable or this will become much harder keeping in mind the whole re-construction of the application and therefore maintaining a build becomes almost impossible?
Should I start using Bromite since I’ll never going to be able to use FF without trackers?
AFAIK that calendar only shows updates for desktop FF, or am I wrong? I am a regular Tor user, but I don’t know who that is related with my question, also, it only comes with uB O on Tails.
Unfortunately I am not a developer so I can’t understand anything that’s there, so I would appreciate if you could explain the problem to me in plain English.
We can’t use the code straight from Mozilla to build a fully open-source app, so those steps are taken in order to purge analytics/tracking/useless stuff.
Unfortunately, Fenix code heavily depends on proprietary Firebase and Leanplum libraries with no way to disable them at compile time. If nobody makes a fork of Fenix without proprietary bits, Fennec F-Droid will be gone.
