The amount of work to improve Firefox for Android basically meant a rewrite was needed, hence Firefox Preview being the eventually replacement when it's fully ready
Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android
by mncolinlee on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:49PM
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We had many discussions around this. The Firefox for Android code base was not in a great condition to maintain backwards compatibility as well as accept a new rendering engine and all of the new Android Components we wanted to introduce to unify of our code bases for different Android-based products.
TL;DR: There was too much cruft built up.
Work should move faster now. We substantially grew our Android team in the last year.
Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android
by jimmaswell on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:02PM
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I hope that works out then, I'm just frustrated with the state of mobile as it's been since the regressions. As someone who still thinks dropping XUL from desktop was a mistake (and maybe even mobile now that devices are more powerful) I wish it could've just stayed how it was but I'll just have to make the best of it.
When quantum came out addon capability on mobile severely regressed and never recovered. This issue to support the context menu API has been open for TWO YEARS.[0] I just want to be able to long press an image and reverse image search it like I used to, is that so much to ask? Yes, there's an addon to do it through the addon menu and then tap the image but it's not the same.
0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363016