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Yeah, the official Firefox build unfortunately depends on some proprietary libraries, which are removed by Fennec.
Fennec is just a collection of patches to remove that from the official Firefox repo: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
Generally, I would recommend using Fennec, yes.
If you want the official Firefox builds without using the Play Store, FFUpdater is useful: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/
Shameless plug for Mull here too, i use both fennec and mull.
If you are big on privacy, Mull is actually recommended, see here: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
Although, Mull is only 60hz. If you do a lot of reading on your phone this can be frustrating.
I often install both.
I had no idea an app could limit screen frequency.
Of course, imagine e.g. games. Setting the refresh rate can be important for a program to work correctly and also performance. In the case of Mull that’s a part of the Rest Finger Printing (RFP) stuff they rolled out around 102.
I wondered why they did this. I love the idea of Mull but the screen frequency makes it unusable. They can't set it higher but just report 60hz or something? Is there no way to change that?
I would suggest Mull browser. It's more hardened. I use Fennec as an alternate browser for work stuff just to compartmentalize like on my computer (librewolf and firefox)
Does it also handle notifications for tab send differently?
I tried using Mull/Fenec and for my use case it would not stop crashing (I'm using it on GrapheneOS).
Apparently it isn't working with PWAs at all.