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 On Android, WR can only be enabled on GeckoView-based products. In particular it *cannot* be enabled on Firefox for Android (aka Fennec), since it is not GeckoView-based. Some GeckoView products are the [https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/android/geckoview_example GeckoView Example app] (aka GVE, built from mozilla-central, similar to Fennec), the [https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/reference-browser Reference Browser] (built via TaskCluster/Github integration), and [https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/ Firefox Focus] (which currently uses a pinned version of Gecko from the beta channel, so not really helpful for WR development/testing).
-If you just want to run with WR enabled, the reference browser gives you a better experience - download the [https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/project.mobile.reference-browser.nightly/latest latest APK] for your architecture, set <tt>gfx.webrender.all</tt> to true in <tt>about:config</tt>, and restart the browser. The rest of these instructions apply to the GeckoView Example App, which is the most useful for development purposes.
+If you just want to run with WR enabled, the reference browser gives you a better experience - download the [https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/project.mobile.reference-browser.signed-nightly.nightly/latest latest APK] for your architecture, set <tt>gfx.webrender.all</tt> to true in <tt>about:config</tt>, and restart the browser. The rest of these instructions apply to the GeckoView Example App, which is the most useful for development purposes.
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