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Vulnerability in Fennec
(lemmy.world)
any info on this?
edit: I just saw there's already a post
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24219041
Wasn't Fennec a couple of major revisions behind due to build issues, and one of said major revisions was a zero-day fix, so yeah, Fennec would be vulnerable.
(I dumped it about two weeks ago once I noticed that it was behind the security patch curve.)
Next time make a post 2 weeks ago. Best to voice concern over things you notice. The person who discovered the XZ backdoor did that and it caught a disaster.
Fennec being a delayed build has been a thing for years at this point: it's a pain in the ass to get built and in f-droid. I mean, just google 'fennec f-droid out of date' and you'll see people talking about this going back to 2020.
I didn't exactly find a stunning shocking unknown thing: Fennec is slow on builds, it got outdated, there was a zero-day in older Firefox versions, and so bam: there's a security issue in Fennec.
Might be worth adding the Firefox security RSS feed for anyone using Firefox or a derivative browser so that you've got the best information about issues like this.
So what do you use instead?
I just installed standard Firefox until they've sorted out their build issues.
From the Play store/Aurora, or is there another way? I remember an app on fdroid that would install different mozilla browsers but I can't find it
You're thinking of FFUpdater
That's the one. It doesn't come up when I search either firefox or mozilla
I'm not deGoogled, so I just did the play store version, so I'm not sure where else you might grab it.
APK Mirror?
Iceraven is one alternative worth considering.