Fennec vulnerability? Recommended to uninstall

[vikebas926]

In my opinion, the root cause of this are the exaggerated purity rules in the F-Droid store, as I mentioned here:

F-Droid users in danger because of exaggerated purity rule

Hi all, did you know that Fennec F-droid (the Firefox alternative in the F-Droid store) didn’t get any security updates since almost two month? The reason is that F-Droid has absolutely insane, exaggerated open source purity rules. That currently prevents the developer from publishing a new version, although technically he has everything ready to publish the new version. The F-Droid policy in question is this: “F-Droid inclusion policy requires third party toolchains to be built from source …

The Fennec developers would have everything ready to merge the latest version and resolve the security issues, here is the PR: Fennec 131.0.0 (!63) · Merge requests · relan / fennecbuild · GitLab

But he cannot merge it because of these open source purity rules in F-Droid that require the complete toolchain to be 100% open source, no deviation allowed. Just relax the rule, don’t be such fundamentalists. Then we can have the issue resolved and people don’t need to switch to Google Play store.