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Latest Firefox Mobile LTS release still works on Jolla’s ancient Android version (through the Alien Dalvik compatibility layer). You can install it from F-Droid

• progval 9y ago
  Wow, that's impressive. I wouldn't have guessed an app as complex as Firefox would work on Jolla's compatibility layer.
  • raimue 9y ago
    The Android compatibility layer is actually Alien Dalvik developed by Myriad. It is mostly used on set-top boxes for TVs. Jolla just licensed it for their phones. As far as I know, even on the latest Sailfish X, Alien Dalvik only supports the API level of Android 4.4 (2013).
    • shmerl 9y ago
      It's really weird that supposedly open source Android runtime is so hard to actually run on proper Linux.
      • progval 9y ago
        Not really. We can't run some Linux software on BSD either. (eg. Gnome, because it depends on systemd, which depends on Linux-specific features).
• xeeeeeeeeeeenu 9y ago
  The latest non-LTS release works too.
• A2017U1 9y ago
  Firefox is not available on fdroid anymore. There's a fork called Fennec that brings it into line with fdroid policy. There's also Icecat. To get Firefox without being forced into a Google account use Yalp installer.
  • xorcist 9y ago
    Firefox Klar, which is an official Mozilla project, is available on F-Droid. There's some added content blocking stuff but otherwise it's just Firefox.
    • opencl 9y ago
      Klar/Focus is a completely different thing from normal Firefox, it's a Webview wrapper with very limited feature set (no tabs, no sync, no bookmarks, no extensions, etc).