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Looks like it hasn’t been updated in a couple months for some reason. It’s currently stuck on 129.0.2, which is too bad because there are a number of security vulnerabilities Mozilla addressed in 130. See this related discussion on Reddit: https://reddit.garudalinux.org/r/firefox/comments/1gceu3f/fdroid_vulnerability_found_in_fennec/

Instead of Fennec, consider using the Mull browser. It is a privacy-hardened version of Fennec (kind of like Librewolf for Android).

Don’t download it from F-Droid; it is stuck on the same 129 version as Fennec. From what I understand, F-Droid has a tooling issue they need to address since upstream Firefox bumped their Android SDK version.

Instead, install FFUpdater and use it to install Mull. FFUpdater pulls directly from the DivestOS repo and provides version 131.0.3 for Mull.

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please add a note or edit fennec out of that image for now as it hasn’t been updated even since the major vulnerability. Please tell me if you contact the original source for that image as if not I will. Maybe fennic will be updated later but for now it is not in a safe position.

Edit: That article was last updated in july. I assumed it was new with bad info. Its probably not worth contacting the author so nvm on that.

is in my post two times. Seems you overlooked.

I “fixed” only the FireDragon part. :smiley:

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I don’t’ think you read my post correctly. I wasn’t asking for who the source was I was going to contact him about the issue with fennec probably being a bad recommendation at this time, but then i added an edit when i realize the article just hasn’t been updated instead of just having bad info.

Merged today for Mesa 24.3 is the code within the Gallium3D video acceleration front-end and the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for handling AV1 still picture encode.

The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation.

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TF? Never thought I’d see both of my favourite browsers fighting…

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Okta password bypass for username above 52 characters fixed

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/okta-ad-ldap-delegated-authentication-username/

Do you trust your fitness & health apps?

ElasticSearch accidentally nuked most of their public code, resetting public fork origins and all stars


Unfortunately, the creator and maintainer of one of the most popular Proxmox script collections will soon pass away due to appendix cancer. There’s not certainty in how this will move forward with past maintainers in charge, but the original repo has been archived.

The new repository is at

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Interesting. Good to know, thanks for clarifying. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and privacy badger which works well for me. I was using Brave for the few times when I need a Chromium browser but ran didn’t like all the crypto / web3 stuff in it. Hopefully with this switch to MV3 we will see an increase in Gecko based browser usage which will increase developers work to have websites work correctly on gecko.

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Mozilla is trash but brave is chrom based so not a fan of that near monopoly.

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…“Inception”) vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode.

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It must have been pretty loud screaming–looks like they decided to go all the way! :partying_face:

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It’s not really a news article, but I came across this interesting Windows11 video… :laughing: #Linux4Life :blue_heart:

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About time.

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to use Garuda Linux :smiley:

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First, I like the picture, :slight_smile: second, I am missing many USB ports on my notebook :frowning: .

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By Constantin Gonzalez, 2011-01-24 in Solaris.

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Using AMD’s Zen 5-based Ryzen AI 300 mobile SoC as an example, the NPU occupies about 10-15 percent of the die space – a significant portion. If that space were instead used to add more CPU cores, users could experience noticeable improvements in multi-threaded applications, benefiting developers, content creators, and power users alike.

Alternatively, expanding the integrated GPU could offer better graphics performance, a feature that would be appreciated by gamers and professionals using graphics-intensive applications. Given that GPUs have traditionally been the go-to hardware for AI workloads, enhancing GPU capabilities could serve a dual purpose.

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