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Anyone know what's up with the Firefox fork Fennec? I got a warning the other day that there were security vulnerabilities in the app, and upon checking when the last version was compiled it was in August. The source code link just takes me to Mozilla's repos.

Disabled the app and switched browsers for the moment, but wanted to know if anybody knows what's going on with it. If not, anybody know of any other Android Firefox forks that cut Mozilla things out?

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sudocarlos 1y ago

There was recently a Firefox vulnerability exploited in the wild. It was patched very recently, so any build before that, ie August, would be vulnerable. Maybe it's that?

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Nate 1y ago

Thanks, yeah, it's probably that. Just odd that they didn't patch it quickly like usual.

Electric Sheep 1y ago

There was a problem with compiling some of the software in the Fennec F-Droid build chain from source. That's why it's taking F-Droid a while to ship an update;

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/fennec-vulnerability-recommended-to-uninstall/28826/39

In the meantime you can get more recent versions of mobile FF-based browsers by adding the DivestOS repo to your F-Droid client. But it requires uninstalling, then installing from that repo.

Nate 1y ago

Thanks!