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Fennec vs firefox (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I have the firefox app but its not on f droid while fennec is, what gives? And should I be using fennec instead

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[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the official Firefox build unfortunately depends on some proprietary libraries, which are removed by Fennec.
Fennec is just a collection of patches to remove that from the official Firefox repo: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

Generally, I would recommend using Fennec, yes.
If you want the official Firefox builds without using the Play Store, FFUpdater is useful: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

[โ€“] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 10 months ago

Shameless plug for Mull here too, i use both fennec and mull.