Heh. No, I haven't tried Fenix, which I realize also makes it a bit harder to take my complaints seriously :)
Having said that: - I am very happy with the current Fennec app and its UI, and don't understand why Mozilla feels a need to drop that product and create a new one from scratch. I know there's mentions of a "GeckoView" piece that sounds like it makes embedding easier, but I don't know why that can't be plugged into the existing Fenix codebase. - I have a _bunch_ of addons installed in Fennec. uBlock Origin is by far the most critical, but I have a number of other quality-of-life addons as well. Based on the articles I've seen, Fenix does not yet have any extension support, so I can't even justify trying it out. There was a long HN discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295694 a few months ago, which has a number of criticisms of this migration process. I would generally agree with the criticisms in that thread, regarding Fenix vs Fennec, and general Mozilla priorities. Given Mozilla's long-declining market share, throwing resources into rewriting the Android app for no obvious benefit seems like a waste, vs improving the desktop app further. On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 3:47:13 AM UTC-4, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:51 PM <mark.erik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm > > decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I > > don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI. > > > > Have you actually tried Fenix (Firefox Preview)? How did it fall short of > your usage of Fennec? > > Kind regards, > > Dirkjan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
