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I thought that fennec was no longer developed... I liked it much more than fennix
fennec, confusingly, was too different things
fennec, the codename for firefox android before it was codenamed fenix, is no longer developed. you're right
fennec, the floss soft fork of firefox android, is still being developed. it's available on fdroid, and based on fenix (modern firefox android)
I wish the fork would not have chosen the same name as a previous engine....
to be fair; at the point they name it fennec, it was a pretty sensible name. when mozilla then changed the codename they could either keep name recognition or match upstream, and they chose the former
it's a dumb name now, but i think they made the right choice at every juncture
Where's the source code for Fennec? The link on its f-droid page is just firefox-android repo.
upd: found it https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
Looking at the commits, I see mozilla devs working on it. The release schedule has been mirroring the official firefox releases for as long as I can remember.
I get Fennec updates through F-droid all the time.