Mull is a good browser, similar to LibreWolf; after Bromite, I didn’t look into who is developing Chromite; but they, is too confidential for a phone with a Google account and a stock OS.
Deleting my suggestion here. I should not be suggesting chromium based ones at least.
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I mainly use Chrome on my smartphone now, and as an auxiliary browser, a fork of Firefox with Ublok Origin without telemetry and analytics.
@ignis @vdbhb59
Please see my comparison table: Browsers - DivestOS Mobile
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I know mate. I was just suggesting on different ones. 
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I know this too…
I thought I would hear an interesting new opinion that might influence the prioritization when choosing a Firefox fork.
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Regarding x86 builds, I found that IronFox (fork of Mull Browser which is based on Firefox) managed to build for x86_64 (commit) and the APKs (as new as 135.0.1) can be found here.
Is it possible to build Fennec F-Droid for x86 / x86_64 if we refer to how other forks build for x86(_64)?
Note: As I don’t have access to a powerful build machine, I’m afraid that I can’t test building Fennec F-Droid x86 myself.
Can somebody (who has access to Gitlab’s CI) please try whether we can build for x86 by modifying org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid.yml like this?
I don’t have a Gitlab account (Gitlab requires me to input my phone number and credit card info to complete registration), and my friend, who has a Gitlab account, cannot use CI without “verifying” their account (i.e. providing phone number and credit card info).
GitHub’s free-tier CI runner has insufficient storage for building Fennec, while my PC doesn’t have enough RAM (and the CPU is weak).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can somebody (who has access to Gitlab’s CI) please try whether we can build for x86
Do you need Fennec for x86-32 or x86-64?
Since our beloved sz has shut down divest so who is updating fennec these days? What exactly are the differences between mull and fennec? Of the little what I know mull had zero google libraries or whatever whereas fennec has some, is this correct?
x86-32 - I use Fennec regularly on my Asus phone (Intel Atom Z3580) and apparently it uses a 32-bit ROM even though its CPU (Z3580) supports 64-bit.
F-Droid maintainers (including myself) maintain Fennec nowadays. @SkewedZeppelin co-maintained it.
The main difference between Fennec and Mull is that the former tries to be close to the original except proprietary bits—they get removed or replaced, and this is the main objective of the Fennec project. Mull re-used this work and added own changes for better privacy, even at the cost of breakage on some sites.
Both Fennec and Mull use Google’s libraries, but only those that are free software. Neither Fennec nor Mull include proprietary code.
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I use Fennec regularly on my Asus phone (Intel Atom Z3580)
Do you use the old Fennec 68.x? O_o
apparently it uses a 32-bit ROM
Could you please re-check whether your OS supports 64-bit apps? 64-bit apps are more robust and secure, so building Fennec for x86-64 is a better idea.
Nope, I am using 136.x. The use of libhoudini in stock ROM allows installation of ARM apps, but I experience severe lags when I browse some websites, particularly those with a lot of JS and images.
I have tried with org.fcitx.fcitx5.android. The x86_64 build (version code 84) results in INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS, while thex86 build (version code 83) installs successfully.
Thanks for doing this. You guys are heroes. If both fennec and mull use google libraries, the free one’s, then is there any thread wherein it is mentioned in detail what exactly remains there in fennec and what is removed from mull?
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They were the same.
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Fennec 137 will have a version for x86-32: Update Fennec F-Droid to 137.0.0 (!21180) · Merge requests · F-Droid / Data · GitLab
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Thank you very much! Once the Fennec 137 x86-32 build is available from F-Droid repository, I will test and share the results.
Is there a way to know whether the build server succeeded / failed building Fennec 137?
From 135 to 136, the APKs were pushed 4 days after the metadata update commit was merged, but this time 5 days passed and no APKs are available yet, so I wonder whether the server encountered issues when building Fennec?
You can always do that: FAQ · Wiki · F-Droid / wiki · GitLab
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