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Consider Fennec instead of Firefox -- I just switched yesterday, and I think the only difference is that Fennec is usually a couple of versions behind because it removes some Mozilla crapware.

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Nowadays, Fennec F-Droid is usually on the same version as the release channel of Firefox, or at most a version behind for a week or so.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Fennec also lets you install any add-on from addons.mozilla.org through a tedious process,* which is still an improvement over Firefox release/beta on Android. The only channel of Firefox that supports this process on Android is the nightly channel.

* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

What about Firefox Focus? It's private by default and VERY unbloated. The ephemeral nature of sessions also forces me to not leave a hundred tabs open.

Does it support extensions? I can't go anywhere without uBlock Origin :D

It does

FWIW, Mozilla has worked with devs of some popular extensions to get them working on "new" mobile FF, including uBo.

There's a workaround to support pretty much any FF extension at this point -- but you have to create a "collection" with your firefox account and then point your Android FF install at that collection. Not too hard, but a little bit of a PITA. If you're like me and maintain the same couple dozen extensions on every FF install, though, it actually works pretty well.

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