F-Droid wants to drop Firefox because Google Play is now required to build it (though not to run it). Same reason why Chromium isn&#x27;t being considered: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;page&#x2F;2&#x2F;#post-16388" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;page&#x2F;2&#x2F;#post-16388</a><p>F-Droid has (temporarily?) taken down their Fennec fork, seemingly due to difficulties with development: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;please-do-not-drop-firefox-support&#x2F;page&#x2F;2&#x2F;#post-18072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;please-do-not-drop-firefox-...</a><p>This is presumably why Firefox&#x27;s removal has been continuously postponed. Reliability is one of the reasons why I would prefer first-party Firefox over a third-party fork.<p>Though there are good reasons why F-Droid doesn&#x27;t include Chromium and seeks to remove Firefox, the absence of many open source Android apps from F-Droid&#x27;s catalog has a direct impact on utility. It&#x27;s also not uncommon for apps on F-Droid to lag behind the version on Google Play or the latest release direct from the developer. (Again, there are good reasons why they screen apps, but it does impose a delay.)<p>I appreciate F-Droid&#x27;s screening process, and I wouldn&#x27;t want it to go away, but it&#x27;d be nice to have an alternative open source Android app catalog that&#x27;s a little more liberal.