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Felice ======

A custom build of Fennec F-Droid.

Changes from Fennec F-Droid

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• Extension signing disabled: Mozilla's mandatory addon signature verification is removed at both compile time (MOZ_REQUIRE_SIGNING) and runtime (xpinstall.signatures.required = false). You can install any .xpi extension without Mozilla's approval.
• Default homepage: Opens to https://smesh.lol instead of the Firefox default.
• Distinct app ID: Installs as lol.smesh.felice — coexists with Fennec F-Droid on the same device.
• Branded as "Felice" in the launcher and throughout the UI.

Everything else is identical to Fennec F-Droid: proprietary Google components removed, microG substituted, telemetry/crash reporting disabled, additional privacy-respecting search engines included, UnifiedPush support.

Download

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felice.apk — arm64 build for modern Android phones and tablets.

Build

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Requires: Debian/Arch Linux, Android SDK (build-tools 36.1, platforms android-36.1, NDK 29), Rust 1.93, Gradle, CMake, Clang, LLD, NASM, terser, cbindgen 0.29.2, JDK 17.

1. Clone source libraries into ../srclib/ at the versions specified in the F-Droid metadata.

1. Run prebuild and build:

./prebuild.sh 149.0.2 1490220
./build.sh

1. Sign the output APK:

apksigner sign --ks felice.keystore --out felice.apk \
  ../srclib/MozFennec/obj/gradle/build/mobile/android/fenix/app/outputs/apk/release/app-*-release-unsigned.apk

Licenses

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Scripts: GNU Affero General Public License v3+. Patch changes: Apache 2.0 or MPL 2.0 per original file headers. Artwork: MPL 2.0.