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#IronFox v151.0.2.1 is now available, go update! :)
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases/v151.0.2.1
#Dove #Thunderbird 2026.05.21.1 is now available - go update! :)
https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove/releases/tag/2026.05.21.1
For the next #IronFox release, we intend to remove built-in DNS over HTTPS providers that do not have their addresses signed with DNSSEC and/or do not enforce DNSSEC for domains that support it. We're making this change because we believe it's our responsibility to hold the default selection of providers to the highest possible standards, and due to the improvement in privacy and security that it will provide for users.
The following providers will be impacted:
- AdGuard
- AdGuard (Unfiltered)
- NextDNS
- Quad9
- Wikimedia
Unfortunately, as Quad9 is one of the providers impacted, we intend to switch the default provider for new users to Mullvad (Base).
If you are currently using any of the effected providers, your choice will be respected, and they will remain your selected DNS provider after updating, though we would strongly recommend switching to one of the other built-in providers if possible.
We wanted to share this announcement before release to make users aware and get feedback around this change. We look forward to hearing what the community thinks!
Hi everyone, we, #IronFox, are excited to announce that we’ve officially migrated our issue tracker to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de : https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/bugs/issues. **Issues will no longer be accepted on GitLab and in any repo outside of this one**.
This will allow us to be far better organized and more efficient/productive - as instead of having several different issue trackers (one for each of our repos) across two different sites (GitLab and Codeberg), we’ll now have a single, unified, and accessible place for all issues. It’ll also make it a lot easier for users to navigate and search through existing/already filed issues.
We look forward to hearing what the community thinks of this change!
#IronFox v148.0.2.1 is now available, go update! :)
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases/v148.0.2.1
For the last few months, #Google has been blocking Safe Browsing requests via our (#IronFox) API key. They claim this is due to us hitting their (very limited) usage quotas.
We've filled out their form to request additional quota several times, and have never heard a response back.
Does anyone have any ideas/thoughts/suggestions on how we can get this fixed? Any help/support would be greatly appreciated. It's becoming a major issue that's compromising the safety of our users (by leaving them more exposed to malware/phishing/etc).
#IronFox v148.0.1 is now available, go update! :)
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases/v148.0.1
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To verify the integrity/authenticity of your IronFox installation, in addition to the checksums provided below, we highly recommend using AppVerifier (https://github.com/soupslurpr/AppVerifier):
Package ID: org.ironfoxoss.ironfox
SHA256 hash of signing certificate: C5:E2:91:B5:A5:71:F9:C8:CD:9A:97:99:C2:C9:4E:02:EC:97:03:94:88:93:F2:CA:75:6D:67:B9:42:04:F9:04
SHA256 Checksums:
IronFox-v148.0.1-arm64-v8a.apk: 810076ebb2de22f653f15ae8a4aafde658a32a3eb771a8130eaa99bd9c4bdd5e
IronFox-v148.0.1-armeabi-v7a.apk: 37631cd9c3f6682c42f4eb993f5bce5b4201cfd1610a15648ccea6dbf190406d
IronFox-v148.0.1-x86_64.apk: 8e30f229578af487515e84867de6410103be25f0c6ebd87cf2aaae740daa96c4
IronFox-v148.0.1-universal.apk: 84e9841ee37ed3ce4ce1d4c755925ba47e44602faf48e6cda88b94a6d29f3398
IronFox-v148.0.1.apks: ef9006cabf0be531b31f3d7c69df5bbb3354c69442904f9508f687eb7d3793a4
@abucci since the firefox ai runtime (/ml component) was implemented in gecko directly, you're right that it's technically present on android - but it's not actively being used/implemented anywhere in geckoview and fenix (firefox for android) itself - unlike firefox for desktop, which has been adding user-facing features like ai chatbot integration, link preview, smart tab grouping, etc. (with a separate "genai" component).
but, i took a look, and i will go ahead and disable extensions.ml.enabled for next release, thanks for pointing it out.
in general, i'm going to take a closer look into the ai runtime/ml component (that we're inheriting from gecko) for next release, and see what specifically we can disable/remove. i don't think we want to kill all local "machine learning" functionality (ex. firefox translations technically uses machine learning models - and we def want to support that), but we def don't won't support anything related to "generative" ai, like the examples i mentioned of firefox's recent features on desktop
#IronFox is officially available on Accrescent!
https://accrescent.app/app/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox
If you're unaware: @accrescent@infosec.exchange (https://accrescent.app/) is a new and upcoming, FOSS Android app store - with a focus on privacy & security (See here: https://accrescent.app/features for a list of some of Accrescent's key features). It's currently used by other privacy and security-focused projects, such as Molly (https://molly.im/), and recommended for use by GrapheneOS, among other privacy and security-focused projects and researchers.
**Accrescent is now the most secure way to install IronFox, and it's the installation method we recommend most users use if possible.**