That’s fooView, so I disabled it and restarted - no difference, using touch in Fennec is still practically unusable. As for all the other apps using “Display over other apps” - there are so many. Do you really think disabling this for all will help anyhow?
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Dunno, just trying to help 
Wasn’t AIMSICD abandoned?
Appreciate your effort, might try that when I found some spare time!
Might be, it doesn’t work actually but I forgot to uninstall it! 
Well this is embarasing 
, I made a false claim! Just found out that the same problem is present in Firefox 82.1.1 as well - looks like it was updated and I didn’t pay enough attention about version info before 
I guess I will try end report this on the Mozilla site. Sorry again!
EDIT:
I made a bug report: Touch/tap on any element - no immediate response · Issue #16235 · mozilla-mobile/fenix · GitHub
Looks like I’m not the only one with such a problem! 
Hope they sort it out soon. 
Saw your video, the bug looks weird.
Did you check logcat?
I didn’t as I wouldn’t know what to look for (I’m not that familiar with logcat) 
Maybe I’ll do it if Mozilla support asks for it.
How to download files without prompt/designate a downloader (Fennec, or external)?
I want be able to click and download, without a prompt or selecting an external downloader—just friggin’ download, like I was able to do before the “new” versions.
On my device that does not have an external downloader app, disabling “External download manager” in settings still results in a prompt every time I click something to download; very frustrating when wanting to download many things.
Thank you
Good afternoon: first of all thank you for continuing with the development of fennec. But this new version does not allow you to install some other add-ons. By style of canvasbloker, chameleon, and others. Then it makes the odd connection and has trackers and loger as it comes out with the xda application warden. I’m glad he’s still alive and they don’t let him die. Because fenix the truth is that in what is privacy and other things, he has long since left on the same side as what Google and Microsoft do. What I can ask is that they remember previous versions like 68 or icecat. And they do not let what was free code die. Because lately I am seeing that a lot of developers and others are putting everything on Google play with what this entails (that the developer accepts what Google wants or asks for). Or the same github that is from Microsoft. I already know that free code for its developers maybe, and maybe without it maybe. It is not profitable for its creators. And of course behind an application there are lots of hours of work and effort. That sometimes is not rewarded or rewarded, or even applauded by users. And then the web and others that are following patterns that Google marks and others … But please do not let the essence of what free code was as it was born die. A hug and a thousand thanks for continuing with your work.
Yes, known issue, Mozilla is working on it, mentioned above a dozen times.
Hello everyone,
First of all, a huge thank you to @relan, I just remembered to search for Fennec F-Droid after almost a year to be using Fenix, and downloading the APK of Firefox for Android for a while, just yesterday I installed again my beloved Fennec and removed Firefox for Android Stable. I’ll keep Firefox for Android Beta anyways, because as everyone who use Firefox on Android quite often, we detected that version 82.x has a bug which doesn’t allow to download any kind of files with it, so I installed the beta about 10 days ago, plus the 83 version brings another batch of supported add-ons, between there is my beloved Bitwarden, (I really hate the Xamarin “native” app they’ve got), which already replaced in my case the app, so now I depend from Firefox for Android Beta to provide me the login information for all my accounts, so the moment Fennec is updated to 83.x version, that instant, I’ll remove Firefox for Android Beta and just stay with Fennec F-Droid again, as I did in the past, pretty nice this F-Droid version of my favorite mobile web browser .
Bests to all ^^.
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Hi,
Mozilla says we can disable data sending from settings : Send usage data on Firefox mobile browsers
What’s the difference between “Fennec” F-Droid, and Fenix with these toggles switched off ?
Thanks, have a good day
- Fennec F-Droid won’t upload your data between its start and the moment you switch sending off.
- It has the proprietary tracking code, implementing this functionality, removed. So unlike Firefox, Fennec is free software.
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Hi@all,
I have installed version 82.1.1 (821120) from F-Droid This does not allow to download a file. No matter from which page.
With another browser e.g. Firfox Klar it works.
Is this a bug or is it because of my cell phone?
with best
pixel24
First time I hear this reported here, did you allow STORAGE permission when asked?
It’s not only you, downloads failing is a known bug upstream that apparently was fixed already, but you will have to wait a bit more until the fixed version is available.
Edit with more info:
It will be fixed for sure with Firefox/Fennec 83 (82.1.3 I’m not sure). But 83 landing might take a while.
Notice this is not a Fennec F-Droid exclusive problem, regular Firefox also has it. (Naturally, they are basically the same).
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jqhxnd/downloads_dont_really_start_i_guess_notification/
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No problem. I just noticed it. I extremely rarely download anything on my cell phone anyway.
The bug is from Fenix (Firefox for Android), obviously, I experienced that during a while, that caused me to install Firefox for Android Beta, when 83 becomes the stable version on Fennec, I’ll update to it and uninstall Firefox for Android Beta, Bitwarden is also coming with Fennec 83 .
Bests ^^.
New Fennec is best in my opinion. Thanks for keeping this project alive.
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