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by coldpie 2016 days ago
I'm in the same boat and have the same worries. I give them a monthly donation to support the company, in hopes of showing that there are paying customers they may be able to fall back on in the future. I can't think of anything else I can do to turn back the tide of the advertiser-developed browser. (Yes, I already know the money doesn't go directly to Firefox development today, thanks.)
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Thank you for this inspiration, I've created my monthly payment now. I cannot imagine being forced to use anything else than Firefox... (Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...)
Two weeks ago I've switched to Iceraven, a FF for Android fork, and it's been fantastic so far.

It's compatible with many add-ons missing from FF on Android and has some additional features that were "lost" in the Fenix release.

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

It is working well for me, although I'm not a heavy user and the week or two I had to go without NoScript was quite painful :)
> Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...

Yeah, the initial launch was pretty bad. However, this has improved quite a bit from the initial launch if you haven't tried it in a while.

Oh, I use it as my daily driver mobile browser. And I agree it has improved quite a bit (so that it is now usable, though with a lot of bugs/missing features/inconsistencies).