ffupdater/README.md

Firefox-Updater

Installs and updates the following browsers:

Browsers from Mozilla or based on Firefox:

• Fennec F-Droid
• Firefox Browser, Firefox for Android Beta, Firefox Nightly (GitHub Repository)
• Firefox Focus, Firefox Focus Beta, Firefox Klar (GitHub Repository)
• Mull Browser (GitLab Repository)
• Iceraven
• Tor Browser Tor Browser Alpha

Good privacy browsers:

• Bromite, Bromite SystemWebView
• Mulch

Browser which are better than Google Chrome:

• Brave Private Browser, Brave Browser (Beta), Brave Browser (Nightly) (GitHub Repository)
• Chromium
• DuckDuckGo Browser
• Kiwi Browser Next
• Vivaldi (Incomplete Source Code)

Other applications:

• Orbot

FFUpdater checks for updates in the background and downloads them as well. Apps can be updated without user interaction with:

• Android 12 or higher
• rooted smartphone
• Shizuku / Sui with Android 6 or higher

FAQ

• By clicking on the "i"-Icon, you can see the time of the last successful background update check.
• Firefox Nightly: Replace the minutes with 'xx' because FFUpdater can only access the start time of the build and not the version name of the app update (finish time). The builds always starts at 5:00 and 17:00 and usually takes a few minutes.
• Please reopen FFUpdater after moving it to the internal/external storage.

How to contribute

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For advanced users: How to contribute

Additional documentation

Security measures

Download sources

F-Droid repository / APK files / other distribution channels

3rd-party libraries

Deprecated browsers

Maintainer

My goals

Git repositories

• Main repository: https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater
• Mirror repository on notabug.org: https://notabug.org/Tobiwan/ffupdater
• Mirror repository on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/Tobiwan/ffupdater_gitlab

License

FFUpdater -- Updater for privacy friendly browser
Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Tobias Hellmann https://github.com/Tobi823
Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.