IronFox (Mull fork) now has an F-Droid repo
IronFox (Mull fork) now has an F-Droid repo
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.
This is great. Nature is healing
Good news!
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
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.
Honestly, Obtanium might be the way to go.
It works flawlessly for me when I use their link from "Get it on F-Droid"
Thanks for the link!