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That sounds shady. Thank you for the warning. How does one determine that? Also not found on F-droid. Hard pass.
F-Droid has the same potential tampering issue: apps there are signed by the F-Droid key, not the developer’s key. An F-Droid compromise could backdoor every app.
For anyone: Why don't they cross-sign with their key+dev key?
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Only way to make it suck less https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi...
It sucks? I switched from Chrome last year and am nothing but happy. Who decided it sucks?
I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha
I've been using this specifically for its extension support, and I'm just waiting until Firefox Preview can get extension support fully as I use Firefox on the desktop and I'd like for them to sync. I looked at other browsers like Brave but I just cannot trust them.
Why can’t you trust Brave?
[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-youtuber-claims-bra...
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That sounds shady. Thank you for the warning. How does one determine that? Also not found on F-droid. Hard pass.
Check out Bromite, they have an F-Droid repo that you can add to F-Droid! Not affiliated with Bromite, just cycling accounts, can point toward my last one if anyone's concerned about this acct's greenness.
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It's gonna be replaced during this year with a complete rewrite. Extension support is coming, but at the moment only uBlock Origin is available.
So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Why? One of the biggest value adds of Firefox on Android is broad extension support.
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Check out Bromite, they have an F-Droid repo that you can add to F-Droid! Not affiliated with Bromite, just cycling accounts, can point toward my last one if anyone's concerned about this acct's greenness.
You got my hopes up but Bromite doesn't support extensions according to their FAQ https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md
Also, they may very well take PRs for extension support (haven't looked through their Issues/roadmap), but, I'm sure it's not on the top of a security-first project's to-do list.
A very important project because it is one of the two browsers on Android that support extensions (the other one is Firefox Mobile). I didn't know it was closed source.
Glad to see it's open source now however there is no commit history (thus no individual patches) and it's not possible to see which version of Chromium this was forked from.
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On their Github page they say > This code is up-to-date and is matching the build on the Play Store. which seems to be in conflict with your statement.
How did they check and verify that?