• EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Clickbaity title.

    Mozilla has provided an update to Firefox version 118.0.1 to close a vulnerability that is already being used to attack Chrome users.

    For the second time this month, Mozilla has to patch a 0-day vulnerability in Firefox that initially seemed to affect only Chrome and its derivatives.

    Yes it’s being exploited, yes you should update, but the vulnerability is not actively exploited in Firefox as far as we (they) know of.

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    1 year ago

    If anyone wants an easy way to stay on top of browser updates on Android ffupdater does a great job tracking releases for the whole Firefox ecosystem as well as forks and TOR tools.

    https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater

    I have it setup to update Firefox Beta, Mull and Orbot for me as soon as new releases drop.

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      1 year ago

      Obtanium is really good option too and can handle more than just browser updates. Pretty much any Android APK release can be setup and it supports a wide variety of different repository sources.

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      1 year ago

      Does that update significantly sooner than the play store or is it mainly for people who don’t like to use the play store? Mine is on 118.1 and my play store update history says 3 days ago.

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        1 year ago

        The Play release cycle is a little bit randomized. Sometimes releases take a few days or a week to filter out to users. ffupdater pulls as soon as any of its sources are available and it runs a check (I have mine set to check every 6h.) You’ll typically get releases the same day the binary becomes available. I can’t think of a time the play store has had a release of the Firefox Beta before I’ve updated with ffupdater.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I love Fennec, but really hate fdroid’s build system. It means when they push an update, it can take up to a week for it to actually be downloadable from fdroid. Yet Mull is based on Fennec and can be updated within a day or two, because they’re in the IzzyOnDroid fdroid repo.

      Actually it’s more then a week, because checking right now, Fennec is still on 117.1 which came out 9/22. That’s a massive security issue for a web browser.