
Fennec F-Droid 142 has problems loading pages on Android 16 QPR2 beta 1
Ever since the Fennec F-Droid 142 update, Fennec has trouble loading pages properly, even when you currently have Internet access. This happens when you try to access any page directly from the home page and from the status bar from within the app, and the page tries to connect but completely stalls with loading as a result. This issue is not affected by the in-app mini browser view that pops up when tapping a link in another app to preview in Fennec or when you have any other app open that uses the Android System WebView (or in most cases, any WebKit based browser, as it doesn't have to be the Android System WebView most the time for this bug to go away!) for loading content, which in fact this strange bug in Fennec will go away as a result.
This issue is only addressed in Fennec F-Droid 142 and does not affect any other forks of Firefox or even the proper upstream versions of Firefox where this issue does not occur. This issue only occurs every time after restarting your Android device, in fact the one that I'm using is a Google Pixel 8 Pro.
I have also reported this issue directly to Google engineers so that they know what might be going on. Given that I'm on a beta version of Android 16 (QPR2 beta 1), this is to be expected. Thank you all so much as hopefully someone at Mozilla will have a small patch ready for when Fennec 143 goes into testing pretty soon!
Saafara biñ tànn
Thank you so much Paul! I did find Fennec's GitLab account and I'm going to try to forward this issue along to them now.
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Hi
That fork of Firefox for Android is not built or supported by the team here at Mozilla. I recommend that you contact the developers of that app for help with their software.
Saafara yiñ Tànn
Thank you so much Paul! I did find Fennec's GitLab account and I'm going to try to forward this issue along to them now.