- librewolf (Desktop) [1]
- Mull (Android) [2]
- Iceraven (Android) [3]
- Mercury (Desktop) [4]
- Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5]
- Waterfox (Desktop) [6]
- Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission
- Pale Moon (Desktop) [8]
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9]
- Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10]
This list is not inclusive. It probably contains the famous forks.
[2] https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
[3] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
[4] https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury
- librewolf (Desktop) [1]
- Mull (Android) [2]
- Iceraven (Android) [3]
- Mercury (Desktop) [4]
- Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5]
- Waterfox (Desktop) [6]
- Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission
- Pale Moon (Desktop) [8]
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9]
- Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10]
This list is not inclusive. It probably contains the famous forks.
[2] https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
[3] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
[4] https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury
Not sure how much this will help you, I don't know which features you're keeping the older version of Firefox Android around for. But have you looked into Iceraven browser?
(Iceraven is a fork of Firefox for Android with way more extensions enabled and several other annoyances fixed.)
I just installed it and then added https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/460206-hn-avatars - it works perfectly!
(It's linked to from Iceravens readme: 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
"Note that Iceraven Browser includes some unstable code written by Mozilla, with our own added modifications on top, all shipped with the stable version of GeckoView engine."
I wouldn't use iceraven if security was a priority.
Fennec on the other hand is much closer to FF , quoting their page :
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
"Fennec F-Droid is based on the latest Firefox release (codenamed Fenix).
It has proprietary bits and telemetry removed, but still connects to
various Mozilla and Google services that can track users."
And then Iceraven[2] is even better, because it's just Firefox for Android, but with several hundred extensions enabled and a few other annoyances fixed.
(A few years ago all extensions were enabled on Firefox on Android, but a few didn't work so they decided to limit it to a very short list of allowed ones. And then they let that list stagnate for years. Kind of a dick move IMO.)
If you use iOS, then "Firefox" is really just a skin on Safari, so no extensions (this is entirely Apple's fault), but the sync features work, so that's something if you use Windows or Linux.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re...
[0]: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
Oh and it is written in Kotlin. Maybe I should learn it just to try hacking more features in.
For now, because I don't want to be hit by security vulns in the browser itself, I'm holding my nose and doing plain old Firefox mobile, leaving some of the tracking stuff blocked on my Pi-Hole, then letting my wireguard VPN ensure that even when I'm off Wi-Fi, my signal gets routed to my home connection so the Pi-Hole can stop some of the telemetry (but not all! some gets through no doubt).
Why am I holding my nose there? Because my planned next browser, Iceraven [1], is not yet out of alpha and published to F-Droid. I check every 3 months or so, once it is, that's where I'm going, because it's as close as I can get to Firefox Desktop, but runs on Android.
From the github link : The ability to attempt to install a much longer list of add-ons than Mozilla's Fenix version of Firefox accepts. Currently the browser queries this AMO collection Most of them will not work, because they depend on code that Mozilla is still working on writing in android-components, but you may attempt to install them. If you don't see an add-on you want, you can request it.
The fork Iceraven whitelists/allow all (?) of the addons (not all work fully, so the whitelist has a purpose): https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
- Mull: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
- Fennec F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- Iceraven: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
Even if speed were not 100% that of certain mobile browsers (I have not benchmarked them nor noticed any major differences), having no banners show up make up for it. I have no concerns with telemetry, but the Iceraven folks have cut down on some of the telemetry.
In fact I use Iceraven as my default YouTube mobile app, instead of the official app. With the right add-ons, it makes for a quite nice YT experience!
=> https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Iceraven is a similar (less mature) project for Android.
=> https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
It would be nice to have a single umbrella project/brand, which could essentially treat Firefox in the same way Edge and Opera treat Chrome.
It's compatible with many add-ons missing from FF on Android and has some additional features that were "lost" in the Fenix release.