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Firefox for Android's Play Integrity check hits custom ROMs (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1202253/firefox-for-android-s-play-integrity-check-hits-custom-roms-omg-ubuntu

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've moved to Fennec and I'm very happy with it. If only it had Zen's workspaces it would be absolutely god-like

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What does Fennec even do?

When I tried to look into it a few weeks ago I found very little information. The links on the f-droid page went to Mozilla repo's.

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's Firefox Android with the proprietary bits and tracking stripped out.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is the repo. It has a very small description of the project. https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

The F-Droid page is, for better and for worse, the place with the most information about the project. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I see, so that really is just all there is. Oh well, thanks for the info.

[–] JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The reason I first used it was they had a way to bypass the limited list of extensions that Mozilla allowed to be installed but this is no longer an issue so no real idea what the benefit is anymore. I'd guess at disabled telemetry but don't quote me on that.

I switched to Ironfox a while back but still keep fennec around for the occasional site that Ironfox breaks.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do you know much about the development of Fennec, is it an official Mozilla thing? There's such scarce information out there.

The F-Droid page source code link goes to https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/android

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 3 weeks ago

fennec off vpn

ironfox on vpn