Need this to hurry along.
Isn’t that a neofascist browser?
I have no idea, tell me more
Or servo
I haven’t heard of this one yet.
Side note, curious who would down vote us over these comments…
For Ladybird I think due to politics of the/a lead developer. I haven’t looked into it and don’t know it it is well deserved or silly. Just enough of a thing that I have seen it complained about before.
For Servo I have no clue why someone would downvote over that.
It does not mean Firefox can no longer be installed or run on non-certified or rooted Android devices, but it might mean that users on non-certified or rooted devices can’t access all AI features in Firefox for Android.
Important note
I don’t trust that. If they’re implementing it for AI only now, they will likely let it seep into other areas of Firefox later
Sooo… If I root my phone I don’t have to deal with AI in Firefox?
Or you could install IronFox
Or you could… Press the disable AI button… The one Firefox added shortly after users pushed back on the added AI ‘features’…
That’s a lot to handle for luddites.
Oh no! … Anyway…
Oh no! Not the AI features!
Wait what, this sounds like a win…?
Nobody wants that garbage anyway so no big loss.
It’s my understanding that forks like librewolf and waterfox won’t be keeping this in for those of us that moved over when mozilla started changing its stripes should remain free from this particular anti feature.
That doesn’t help on Android since those forks don’t exist for that platform. There are Firefox Mobile forks for Android like Fennec, but I don’t know if those forks will be forced to keep this “feature” in place.
LibreFox might not exist on Android, but IronFox is a good option at least.
Waterfox doesn’t exist on Android? So what is this browser I’m using? Lol
I didn’t realize Waterford had been ported, thanks!
Waterfox is on the play store
Also straight from Github or its own website
Oh derp
I just followed the QR from the web browserI should get the apk
Ironfox?
Also I don’t think they can add any proprietary library like those interacts with google play to fennce, as per f-droid rules.
IronFox uses their own F-Droid repository, meaning I’m pretty sure they can do whatever they want.
Yay waterfox!
Fuck
Yes. Fuck.
Oh no, I can’t use the AI features. Le Boo Hoo… :P
Yeah I don’t want to use anyone’s compute resources on AI, full stop. I wish LibreWolf had mobile apps or IronFox had a desktop client just so that I can stop maintaining two sets of customizations to achieve consistency. I tend to ratchet up IronFox’s defaults a little and back down as many from LibreWolf as I bump up to get to where I want. LibreWolf never saving any cookies is an okay default if you are running like Tails on a luks mount but my threat profile doesnt justify that and im running debian. I want first party cookies to work more often than not. At least extrepo has it easily addable as an apt repo.
And what about Waterfox ? As far as I know, they have both an Android and a desktop app
Just as I was thinking of installing grapheneos. Ffs.
WaterFox and IronFox are still options no matter what the OS may be.
GrapheneOS ships with hardened Chromium (Vanadium)
Firefox still works when rooted, just the AI features don’t (read the article for more info)
Well, this just validates my decision to discontinue my Mozilla subscriptions a few months back. They may be throwing all independence from Alphabet out the window but hey, at least there’s a cute new fox mascot, right?
Any Firefox Android forks that improve the battery life?
Waterfox
