- cross-posted to:
- fdroid@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- fdroid@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Import into your F-Droid client directly by tapping this link: fdroidrepos://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
IronFox is a fork of Divested Computing Group’s Mull Browser, based on Mozilla Firefox. Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull by providing a free and open source, privacy and security-oriented web browser for daily use.
I can’t click that link. I guess Droid-ify doesn’t handle that protocol. If I try to paste the entire thing into the address field of the “Add repo” screen, it crashes the whole app. Merely pasting it!
I had to separate the bits and do it manually:
Address
http://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo
Fingerprint
C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904
Hopefully FFUpdater will add the app to their list soon. And Droidify will probably add the repo to their default list, too.
It works flawlessly for me when I use their link from “Get it on F-Droid”
What’s the story behind this?
I’m not sure exactly how far back you need me to go:
- Mozilla made Firefox for Android
- Divested Computing Group (developer behind DivestOS) forked it into Mull (which is completely unrelated to Mullvad)
- The privacy community largely considered Mull to be their mobile browser of choice due to its out-of-the-box focus on privacy
- Just this month, Divested Computing Group announced that they will be ceasing development on all of their projects
- IronFox was soon forked from Mull, aiming to continue its goals of focusing on privacy
- Until now, the only official way to install IronFox was by downloading the APK directly from their git repo (or building it from source, I guess). Now that the developer has set up an F-Droid repo, one can add that repo to their F-Droid app and allow F-Droid to manage downloading/installing/updating IronFox
Good news!
This is great. Nature is healing