It’s Enable “Tab Manager Enhancements” in secret settings which enables new tab ui design and it’s enabled by default in nightly build.
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Yes, this setting is only for Nightly or Debug:
requirePreference<SwitchPreference>(R.string.pref_key_tab_manager_enhancements).apply {
isVisible = Config.channel.isNightlyOrDebug
isChecked = context.settings().tabManagerEnhancementsEnabled
onPreferenceChangeListener = SharedPreferenceUpdater()
}
Yeah, it was there in debug menu of build 145 of Ironfox , I thought you guy must’ve included it too but I guess it’s not.
Fennec doesnt retain changes made in about config for example disable javascript, fission.autostart, uri/url empty/null domains etc.
another q, why does fennec connect/preconnect/prefetch/opens connections to urls saved in bookmarks at browser start and how to disable this?
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Firefox for Android shares a lot of code with the desktop version, but it also contains components written specifically for Android. There is simply no path in the code that passes settings made in about:config to those components. That’s by design because Mozilla decided not to give us about:config.
Noticed recently that the CAD extension (cookies auto delete) extension does not work at all.
It pretends to work - saying deleted this or that cookies but the cookies are still there and still accessible by the servers. A look at the GitHub page of the project… dead project. The fact has been reported a few times to Mozilla but apparently no one cares there even though it is an officially reviewed extension.
Beware of the false sense of privacy.
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I think this is also true of desktop Firefox.
The extension wasn’t updated for the ‘full 1st party isolation’ world, methinks.
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Ian
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Indeed, same story on Desktop although not relevant here.
What was the result of the investigation? Also, is it being tracked anywhere?
I stumbled upon an error an concluded that I need to build yet another LLVM toolchain as Mozilla does. I didn’t make any progress with that, no ticket yet.
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Is it possible to release a Fennec 140 ESR for the older devices? In this way we could provide security updates until 2026-09-16.
Not really. Fennec consists of many components: the Gecko engine, Application Services, Android Components. Mozilla makes ESR releases only for the first one, the Gecko engine. So a hypothetical Fennec 140 ESR will ship possibly vulnerable Application Services and Android Components.
I thought that the UI should be sandboxed away from the actual content layer? Even if not, would it be safe to build one of the minimal GeckoView examples with an ESR version of Gecko? I also think that doing an ESR build, even if the frontend would possibly be vulnerable, is better than leaving those users on a completely unsupported engine, though you may think it’s not worth the effort.
How it’s possible that Fennec 148 is still little over 100 MB while Firefox and Ironfox are 2.5x that big?
Which architecture package is 100 for Fennec but 2.5x for others? You are talking about split ABI, one package per arch, yes?
OK, I get it, I’ve compared v8a Fennec with multiarch Ironfox. V8a Ironfox 148.0.1 is 132 MB. Anyway still some difference to 109 MB Fennec 148.0.0.
Sorry for subposting, but I don’t know where to ask: anyone here compared Fennec vs Ironfox? Which one to choose and why? I’m using Cromite, but I always like to have a backup.
In a nutshell, IronFox is more focused on privacy, while Fennec is focused on being close to the original (i.e. Firefox).
If you value privacy over some inconveniences (e.g. a few broken sites), use IronFox. If you’re a casual surfer, use Fennec.
Anyway, you can just try both.
Good afternoon:
A friend told me that Fennec can be downloaded from https://f-droid.org/es/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/, since there are several versions of 148.0.2 listed there all with the same date but different file sizes.
One is 108 MiB, another is 114 MiB, and another is 105 MiB
Best regards, and thanks for the help.
Yes, use F-Droid Client to install the right version compatible with the device, to get notifications for updates and info on new apps.
The website is for convenience only.