Opening the latest version of Firefox for Fire TV now displays a warning banner at the top informing you that the app will no longer be supported after April 30, 2021. The banner remains present even while browsing web pages. I asked Mozilla about the banner and they told me that it is permanent and that there is no way for users to dismiss it. The only time the banner is not present is when watching a video in full-screen. That means, if you want to continue using Firefox for Fire TV without a warning banner at the top, you’ll need to uninstall the new 4.8 version and sideload the older 4.7.1 version. You can do that by following this guide and entering code
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For anyone reading this after April 30, 2021 who wants to sideload v4.8 and live with the banner, you can do so with code2132 (or aftv.news/2132) in my Downloader app.
Are there any other updates to v4.8 besides the banner?
There don’t seem to be any other noticeable updates between the two versions, but there are definitely more changes behind the scenes than just the banner being added. The Github source has had hardly anything changed since the 4.7.1 version, but it doesn’t show any reference to this 4.8 version so it’s hard to say if everything in 4.8 is on Github. I decompiled the two APKs and there are about 100 files that differ between the two versions, so it’s definitely more than just an added banner.
They screwed up the video on one web site. Switched over to Silk and it works correctly.
wonder if this has to do with firefox stand on web tracking…
I doubt it, it likely has to do with Firefox for Fire TV not having a big user base and they’d like to focus their development attention elsewhere.
All I use Firefox for is to watch videos that are banned from Youtube. Some sites work better on Firefox and some work better on Silk.
Which sites work better in Firefox?