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Brave Launches Official F-Droid Repository for Android Browser to Bypass Google Play (brave.com)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Have you tried Obtanium? Allows to download and update from github, among other sources. There's even a site with source configs that's very helpful, and includes firefox.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

Alternatively, Fennec is basically firefox and it's on f-droid.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I use IronFox which is on Accresent or hosts it's own F-Droid repository alternatively. To me that's even better than vanilla Firefox on F-Droid.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

There are tons of Firefox forks there?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Support from the primary source of development is what I'd prefer. That's where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They are soft forks not hard forks

They base on upstream

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

All of those forks get support from the primary source of development. Do you know what a fork is?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is your first instinct talking to people is to be a dick? Forks pull changes downstream and hopefully push changes upstream but if you want to see either the core Firefox web browser engine or F-Droid reach more popularity, you need Mozilla support so I would rather support Mozilla directly than any fork

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I'm not being a dick, I am trying to help you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My bad if I took your words the wrong way. I gave my answer for why I prefer to use the primary application, because of funding, and your response to me sounded like dismissive condescension. You may not have meant condescension but it reads like dismissive condescension to me like I've heard plenty of whether in or out of the software industry or academia

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Good for them

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That is great. Been using Brave for years.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

i used Vivaldi because it's good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It is also proprietary

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thanks for the F-Droid

-Dirty Mike and the boys

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