Iceraven has had this capability forever, no big announcement required.
If you want to use Firefox on android and don't want to deal with these artificial restrictions and excuses for bad behavior just get iceraven and call it a day.
Plus one for Iceraven - https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
And an additional shout out for FF Updater, which can keep Iceraven up to date - https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater