That's great to hear!

Does that include Firefox Nightly for Android too?

On Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 4:15:17 PM UTC-8, Martin Thomson wrote:
> Great news JC. 
> 
> I've been watching this with interest. It's one of those rare cases 
> where we get a win-win-win. Faster page loads, better security 
> through more reliable revocation information, and better privacy. 
> 
> It's taken a lot of effort, but it's definitely worth it.
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:08 AM J.C. Jones <j...@mozilla.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > CRLite ships compressed revocation information for the public Web to 
> > Firefox users, four times a day. We have a blogpost series on CRLite at the 
> > Security Blog <https://blog.mozilla.org/security/tag/crlite/> (with another 
> > post coming later this month), there’s additional information at Github 
> > <https://github.com/mozilla/crlite>, and for the Gecko-side, a meta-bug 
> > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=crlite>. 
> > 
> > We’ve been collecting telemetry on how much CRLite can speed up first TLS 
> > connections 
> > <https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/21/crlite-part-3-speeding-up-secure-browsing/>
> >  
> > all year. Since August, we’ve been publishing the datasets consistently 
> > four times per day, with “stashes” (delta updates) averaging about 66 kB. ( 
> > https://github.com/mozilla/crlite/wiki#how-can-i-access-statistics-about-the-available-filters
> >  
> > ) 
> > 
> > If you’d like to poke around inside the filter data, see 
> > https://github.com/mozilla/crlite/wiki#how-can-i-query-my-crlite-filter 
> > 
> > Nightly is now preferring CRLite <https://github.com/mozilla/crlite> for 
> > revocation information, meaning fresh TLS connections will skip OCSP when 
> > CRLite can substitute. (e.g., we set security.pki.crlite_mode to 2, 
> > “Enforce”). We expect to see improvement in the SSL_TIME_UNTIL_READY 
> > telemetry: it’s mostly expected to speed up the outliers in the graph, 
> > since revocation checks get cached, and it is likely to have the largest 
> > effects for Firefox users with slower network connections. 
> > 
> > We don’t expect breakage from this change, as we’ve grown fairly confident 
> > in the dataset, but this is going to remain in Nightly for now. 
> > 
> > After this speed-up testing, our likely next step is to add telemetry to 
> > compare live OCSP results against CRLite’s results for outlier-accuracy 
> > (encountering revocations is rare, so care is needed). We’ll ultimately run 
> > both the accuracy and the speedup tests in early Beta as well. 
> > 
> > We’ll develop Release-path plans based on early Beta testing and telemetry. 
> > 
> > For more information, come see us in #crlite in Slack or 
> > #crlite:mozilla.org 
> > on Matrix 
> > <https://matrix.to/#/!zSwoVqWeXUHRiaIFvk:mozilla.org?via=mozilla.org&via=matrix.org>
> >  
> > . 
> > 
> > - J.C. on behalf of Mozilla Crypto Engineering
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