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Better explanation why you removed support of deprecated browsers #113

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> However, if you feel an issue is critical enough to be re-opened, please leave a note on the issue
> with an explanation.

30.06.2021: Firefox Lite is removed from Google Play and Galaxy Store, its repository is archived (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/FirefoxLite) and development stopped.

> Effective June 30, 2021, this app will no longer receive security or other updates. Download the official Firefox Android app now for a fast, private & safe web browser.

These are the reasons why I will remove Firefox Lite.

### Fennec

16.05.2020: Mozilla wants to migrate from Fennec to Fenix. Fennec Beta and Fennec Nightly are already
end-of-life and Fennec Release will be soon.

27.07.2020: 68.11.0 is the last released update for Fennec version, all Fennec browsers are deprecated.

> Fennec is being replaced by our new state-of-the-art mobile browser codenamed "Fenix". We're slowly migrating users in order to make sure the experience is as painless and as enjoyable as possible. We started to migrate users who were using Fennec Nightly in January (bug 1608882). It took us several weeks to be sure of the result and to finally offer Fenix Nightly to all users using Fennec Nightly. Another few weeks later, we repeated the same process with Fennec Beta (bug 1614287). Fenix Beta has been offered to the whole Fennec Beta population on April 22nd. We're planning to do the same with Fennec Release sometimes this year. The schedule is still to be determined.

> The Google Play Store[1] has a lot of nice features, but it's still pretty basic whenever a software publisher wants to slowly migrate users. Once a migration is started, we can't provide any Fennec updates to the population who wasn't offered Fenix, yet. I can say this restriction is painful to manage for Android developers, Mozilla included. Because of it, we had to stop shipping Fennec Nightly/Beta APKs at the beginning of each migration. This explains the dates of the last builds. At the same time, we stopped building Fennec Nightly/Beta because it enabled us to save technical resources[2] as well as people's time[3].
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