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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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Librewolf doesn't have a mobile version

As for Waterfox, they would need to meet the F-droid requirements and then publish to F-droid. That is really difficult in practice as the mobile version of Firefox contains a decent amount of proprietary code.

I would recommend Fennec personally: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid

Be default it doesn't have much in the way of hardening so you might want to go into about:config and enable resist fingerprinting at least