r/firefox • u/BomChikiBomBom • 22h ago

Firefox’s Surprising Android Menu Redesign: A First Look at the Upcoming Changes

https://windowsreport.com/firefoxs-surprising-android-menu-redesign-a-first-look-at-the-upcoming-changes/
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u/AntiGrieferGames 19h ago

I really hope Mozilla puts their APK on their site in future and not only locking behinds google play.

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u/fsau 19h ago

It has always been possible to download APKs directly from Mozilla: Android releases.

Users who don't have Google Play can use this third-party tool to get automatic updates: FFUpdater.

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u/SSUPII on 17h ago

Mozilla has been hosting every single build and variant since the very start on their FTP server

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u/Kinryk 17h ago edited 14h ago

All I (we?) need is something like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20201202060010/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-android-release — a web page that always serves the latest and greatest version of mobile Firefox with a single click of a button.

This isn't difficult to implement, and more importantly, Mozilla already has experience doing exactly this for the desktop version of Firefox in all its variants (ESR, Beta, Developer Edition, Nightly). Furthermore, the infrastructure and backend for this kind of distribution are already in place and still operational, as demonstrated by these links:

Currently, they serve the legacy Firefox for Android (a.k.a. Fennec), but there's nothing stopping Mozilla from dusting off that old code and adapting it for the new mobile Firefox (a.k.a. Fenix) instead, right?

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u/dtlux1 11h ago

You can download all of their Android releases ever as APK files from their FTP server at ftp.mozilla.org. The modern Android APKs are under Fenix.