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Why aren't Waterfox or LibreWolf found in F-Droid? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mrnobody@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Are there any alternative app stores that do list them? I might just go to apkpure to side load, but it's annoying these often-recommended browsers aren't available there.

Alternatively, are there any browsers preexisting in F-Droid any of you recommend?

Just got a phone and just installed lineage OS.

Edit: FOUND IT in case anyone is looking https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox-android/releases list of APKs here

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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I use ironfox. No problems except the normal "too much security problems" and yh6ose are fixed with whitelists. It is on fdroid

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Can someone help me understand why I have to add the custom Ironfox repo to F-Droid to be able to install Ironfox on my phone? Why can't they just publish to F-Droid like everyone else does?

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you! Will check this out

Edit: went to the gitlab page which had a link to F-Droid which shows you to add repository and then download. A couple steps but super easy of anyone is looking! Ironfox says based on Mull browser.

fdroidrepos://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904