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-v148.0.2.1-arm64-v8a.apk:

c7c8e8de47a301de57b00a150ebaea8949044eb332b69e73da721d8d31027a2e

IronFox-v148.0.2.1-armeabi-v7a.apk:

48b1de130b2ecf3eb35c8aad35096cd56c830230f7a9d47661da12da1ae5256a

IronFox-v148.0.2.1-x86_64.apk:

4761e2f6154d62cc2189baf882d51c574d92fcf2724d33f063ddd8f895ea324f

IronFox-v148.0.2.1-universal.apk:

c7edc8a244c1a0f85d1c25489150c8e91879a235893cc021a889e73683d749ad

IronFox-v148.0.2.1.apks:

0c069c20e95b0f85c473861d80754217b2f41a1a0c55fd43adbd38b5f8276b46

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-v148.0.2-arm64-v8a.apk:

b9d1ffcf875a0eee4634aa67bb9670517ac7a6e1522e485262d2226fddf03347

IronFox-v148.0.2-armeabi-v7a.apk:

2bd168df4ddbf961133ddc88a5f69f5c84cd0a9afe2396bf7fc5271654a0d11f

IronFox-v148.0.2-x86_64.apk:

97940407230a231ed09683c6a64269fb6542cf3fbac18be0df61543b8cf63ce6

IronFox-v148.0.2-universal.apk:

e497db0a19489e9faf8bdbf8e3724431e820d6aea66a9728ae938833e32e520e

IronFox-v148.0.2.apks:

46e27dcdc91d86939623f27ebd5ada6aff3286a30ddd7bf4519f7b64718f155c

@leachimus Fennec is essentially just Firefox with proprietary libraries removed and telemetry disabled. IronFox also removes proprietary libraries and disables telemetry, but the overall goal is to provide a hardened, privacy and security-oriented web browser, going above and beyond what standard Firefox/Fennec provide.

To be clear, Fennec is an excellent project, and I myself have personally contributed to it on multiple occasions, but it's a different project with a different set of goals than IronFox, it's difficult to compare the two.

@jon_bon Sorry to hear that, not sure what would've caused that. I believe another user reported similar issues iirc, but haven't heard much beyond that.

cc: @accrescent @lberrymage Do you have any ideas?

@switchingsoftware Firefox’s implementation of Safe Browsing is FOSS and privacy-respecting. We take additional measures to further improve its privacy, by proxying connections as part of it to avoid directly connecting to/exposing IP addresses to Google, as well as disabling the submission of file metadata to Google. We also have a UI setting to enable/disable Safe Browsing, and we added an option to control it on the onboarding as well, so that users are aware and can easily enable/disable it if desired.

For more details on our implementation, see our documentation here: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/blob/v146.0/docs/Safe-Browsing.md.

It’s deeply unfortunate that there isn’t yet a viable alternative to Safe Browsing - relying on Google at all is obviously far from ideal (maybe this is up the alley of someone like @quad9dns?? please make it happen 🙏). But, in the meantime we take the necessary measures to protect the privacy of users, while of course ensuring you’re always in control and have the ability to enable or disable it to your liking.