If anyone wants an easy way to stay on top of browser updates on Android ffupdater does a great job tracking releases for the whole Firefox ecosystem as well as forks and TOR tools.
Does that update significantly sooner than the play store or is it mainly for people who don’t like to use the play store? Mine is on 118.1 and my play store update history says 3 days ago.
The Play release cycle is a little bit randomized. Sometimes releases take a few days or a week to filter out to users. ffupdater pulls as soon as any of its sources are available and it runs a check (I have mine set to check every 6h.) You’ll typically get releases the same day the binary becomes available. I can’t think of a time the play store has had a release of the Firefox Beta before I’ve updated with ffupdater.
Obtanium is really good option too and can handle more than just browser updates. Pretty much any Android APK release can be setup and it supports a wide variety of different repository sources.
I love Fennec, but really hate fdroid’s build system. It means when they push an update, it can take up to a week for it to actually be downloadable from fdroid. Yet Mull is based on Fennec and can be updated within a day or two, because they’re in the IzzyOnDroid fdroid repo.
Actually it’s more then a week, because checking right now, Fennec is still on 117.1 which came out 9/22. That’s a massive security issue for a web browser.
It should also be noted here (you know, TL;DR) that it's also fixed in:
Firefox ESR 115.3.1
Firefox Focus for Android 118.1
Firefox for Android 118.1
Thunderbird 115.3.1
Anyone using Tor browser should know that they should check it’s updating status before using it. Thankfully it checks itself but still, stay up to date before you browse.
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