Mull Browser - Privacy Oriented Browser

is that tablet on Android 7 or older? If so, read https://f-droid.org/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions and follow the instructions to add that certificate

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Thanks for getting back to me SkewedZeppelin, when I say about the repo becoming more accessable I meant as in it would be good for you to also publish up to date direct download links for Mull apk installers (and the other 8 apps you make) so people who have issues like me and people who are short on storage space can still update without the need for linking a repo with an app.
Similar to how VLC has a direct apk section on its download page.

direct download links

No.
The DivestOS.org F-Droid repo is mirrored across 7+ servers. Please use the F-Droid client to download to ensure the load gets balanced across them.

VLC

They use mirrors too but have a load-balancer, you can see stats here for example: Mirrorstats

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you still need to download the APK what do you mean? why does it matter WHERE you download it from?

Thanks for getting back ti me Licaon_Kter, it is indeed an older version of the OS and the linked guide looks a bit too technical for me. The best options now would be updating through FFupdater which would involve uninstalling the current version and installing the FFupdater signed version, I would lose all my bookmarks in doing that so will probably stick with the second option of updating via direct apk from the Mull F-Droid page once they upstream it.

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The FFUpdater version is the DivestOS.org version.

Mull has already been updated on F-Droid.org, but it has to be compiled and released which takes a few days: Update Mull to 129.0.2 (!15612) Ā· Merge requests Ā· F-Droid / Data Ā· GitLab

The current cycle already started two days ago, so itā€™ll be in next cycle: build - F-Droid Monitor

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You would have to have the app (F-Droid/FFupdater) installed which takes up space along with the apk. If Divest released direct apkā€™s on their site then people could update without any third party app.

But how do you update all of your other apps? F-Droid takes like 30MB. What is the issue?

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ā€¦bugs aside :roll_eyes:

30mb is still 30mb plus the F-Droid repo that auto downloads upon opening plus the Divest repo.

Direct from apk.

And none of them contain apk installers, just a link or QR code.

@darren
How about this? Our Apps - DivestOS Mobile

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Thanks for the link I will keep it bookmarked, did you add that to the site just now? Iā€™m 99% certain I didnā€™t see it when looking around in the past. Thanks again.

I just added it.

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I appreciate you doing that and Iā€™m sure many others will also, huge thanks for helping.

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The hash calculation is much slower than in IceRaven when loading apk into VirusTotal, for example. As if only one core is workingā€¦

read: Broken - DivestOS Mobile and try some settings like JIT?

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I installed Mull browser and it seemed nice. I recently got a notification ā€œMull browser is private and secure, make it your defaultā€ or something like that. I donā€™t use any browser as my default so I can pick the one I want to use when something wants to open with one.

I then uninstalled it.

Iā€™m writing this because I believe that warrants the ads anti-feature even though the add is only for itself.

Maybe when they fix that Iā€™ll reinstall.

That is a BAU / AS-IS feature of every browser. Be it FF, Chrome, or any.
Mull is based out of FF, so as such.
It is not an ad, nor does it qualify as such.

No other browser has asked me (through a system notification) to set it as the default, and I have quite a few installed from F-Droid.

Okay, itā€™s possible that in the past a browser might have, but I donā€™t remember and it certainly doesnā€™t exist on my system any longer.