scsi@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droidEnglish
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11 days agoThe link(s) to add their F-Droid repo if not running DivestOS: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps.html#repos
A bit of backstory on how we got here - in June 2024 Mozilla chose to (a) integrate the source tree of Firefox Mobile into their huge monorepo (“gecko-dev”), and (b) move the source off of Github onto their own git servers (“Mozilla Central”). You can read about it in the now-archived old repo:
This was then compounded by a core Android build kit (“NDK”) choosing to remove parts of the toolchain which is/was used to build Firefox releases (ergo, forcing another change to build process):
Together these have caused a bit of a kerfuffle in getting new releases compiled and released via the official F-Droid methodology. See the other comment about the Mull version in their private repo, they’re having to use a Mozilla pre-built clang (a compiler toolchain) now to make it work for the time being.