Mozilla has decided to stop development of the Firefox Lite web browser, which was positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, adapted to work on systems with limited resources and on low-speed communication channels. The project was developed by the Mozilla development team from Taiwan and was aimed primarily at delivery to India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China and developing countries.
Formation of updates for Firefox Lite stopped June 30th. Instead of Firefox Lite, users are encouraged to switch to using Firefox for Android. The reason for discontinuing Firefox Lite is that Firefox for Android and Firefox Focus fully cover all the needs of mobile device users in their current form, and the need to maintain another edition of Firefox has lost its meaning.
Recall that the key difference between Firefox Lite and Firefox Focus is the use of the WebView engine built into Android instead of Gecko, which made it possible to reduce the size of the APK package from 38 to 5.8 MB, and also made it possible to use the browser on low-power smartphones based on the Android Go platform. Like Firefox Focus, Firefox Lite has a built-in inappropriate content blocker that cuts out ads, social media widgets, and external JavaScript to track movement. The use of a blocker can significantly reduce the size of downloaded data and reduce page loading time by an average of 20%.
Firefox Lite supported features such as bookmarking favorite sites, viewing browsing history, tabs for working with multiple pages at the same time, a download manager, quick text search on pages, private browsing mode (Cookies, history and data in the cache are not saved). Advanced features include Turbo mode to speed up downloads by cutting out ads and third-party content (enabled by default), image blocking mode, a cache clear button to increase free memory, and support for changing the color scheme of the interface.
Source: opennet.ru