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Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android by mncolinlee on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:49PM (#20296779)
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 (#20296923)
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.