In my desktop Firefox I use Cookie Autodelete to keep a whitelist of sites whose cookies won’t be deleted. All other cookies are deleted as soon as all tabs for a particular site are closed.

Android’s Firefox, from what I gather, only give you two choices: delete all cookies upon quitting (not tab closing), or save them across sessions.

Unfortunately the extension above does not work on Firefox Android, and I haven’t found any other alternatives.

Do you know of any alternatives or other solutions, to get a behaviour similar to the desktop one? (And also: how come that extension is not supported on Firefox on Android?)

Cheers!

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7 points

You can use this method in Fennec/Mull as well.

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I thought that fennec was no longer developed… I liked it much more than fennix

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fennec, confusingly, was too different things

fennec, the codename for firefox android before it was codenamed fenix, is no longer developed. you’re right

fennec, the floss soft fork of firefox android, is still being developed. it’s available on fdroid, and based on fenix (modern firefox android)

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I wish the fork would not have chosen the same name as a previous engine…

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Where’s the source code for Fennec? The link on its f-droid page is just firefox-android repo.

upd: found it https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

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2 points

Looking at the commits, I see mozilla devs working on it. The release schedule has been mirroring the official firefox releases for as long as I can remember.

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I get Fennec updates through F-droid all the time.

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also @recreationalplacebos@midwest.social thank you! I had no idea about this possibility and these Firefox forks. Looks a little complicated but I’ll try it. From what I gather, Firefox plans to bring back full extension support in the future?

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I feel like it’s been around the corner for years now. I just gave up waiting and switched to fennec on fdroid (which is just Firefox with telemetry removed and a few nightly features enabled, more or less.)

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Thank you. So many people speaking about Fennec, and I had never heard of it!

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2 points

They most likely will but that’s something I’ve been hearing about for years.

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@darcmage
Iceraven can also do it and it has far more add-ons available by default, including CookieAutoDelete. It works fine for me
@pglpm

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