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The x86 build runs much faster and better:

  • There’s a webpage which used to take more than a minute to finish loading / rendering, now it only takes 10-15 seconds.
  • Having many tabs (e.g. 7 or above) used to make Fennec prone to crashes, now it won’t crash.
  • It’s also smoother and faster when the webpage re-renders due to change in screen orientation (switching between landscape / portrait).

Thank you all for making Fennec x86 build available. :heart:

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Have you tried some benchmark?
browserbench.org
I’ve tested f-droid Fennec and it goes slower than Iceraven. If we talk about mobile version.

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Is not compiled from source and reuses Mozilla’s prebuilts.

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My man thanks for divest, mull and everything. You will always be our hero.

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@SkewedZeppelin @Licaon_Kter @vdbhb59 @relan

A question, I have older versions of mull in different phones which have like 2gb ram and some low end processor. As the browser version was not updated so the addons installed automatically got auto disabled

Abcd(extension name) could not be verified aa secured and has been disabled.

How to make the extensions/add ons work again in the browser?

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Mull’s repository was archived on Dec 23, 2024, which means Mull is no longer developed.

You may want to look into other Firefox forks (or the official Firefox build). Even if there is a way to make the extensions / add-ons work on Mull, it is probably not a good idea to stay on an outdated browser.

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I know that the project waa shut down but I am using mull on every device. In older devices mull’s old versions work well to browse the internet or for yt. Now as the extensions have been disabled due to the version being old(and the project is alsp discontinued) I just want to know how to enable the extensions here as ff disables them in out of date browsers? Since the browser will only be used for a little browsing or yt with no account logging in so there is no security risk in those old devices.

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@bond007
please stop using Mull on any device asap, it is not secure.
please use Fennec F-Droid or Cromite or IronFox or official Firefox etc.

the security risk is even higher on an outdated device.

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I agree but older versions of mull are being used in devices of around 2015-2016 with low end processor and ram. Newer versions are not compatible for those phones.
There is no security risk as mull in those devices is being used to access news portals and youtube without logging in any account. That’s it.
Is there a way to make those extensions installed in mull work which have been disabled as its out of date now?

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Is it older than v128? Maybe this is the issue?

According to this Reddit thread, the setting xpinstall.signatures.required applies to ESR, Developer and Nightly, for releases it involves more steps like editing omni.ja.

If Mull follows the behavior of regular Firefox releases (ignores xpinstall.signatures.required), then I am not sure whether you can easily make extensions work again (is it possible to edit omni.ja for Firefox Android, I wonder?).

Fennec F-Droid is available for Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or newer, and builds for armeabi-v7a are available.

Are your devices running Android 4.x? You may want to flash LineageOS or other third-party ROMs on them.

If there are no 3rd-party ROMs available for your devices (or you do not want to flash ROMs), maybe it is a good time to look for used or new phones with a newer Android version.

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