Does anyone know where I can find older versions of APKs from F-droid than I can see?
Fennec in particular, the name of the APK is probably "org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_1180020.apk"
Turns out, they have removed the option to disable #WebP from Firefox Mobile too. The ones who put this shit into Firefox in the first place should be skinned alive! 😡
I don't have the tools to build Android apps anywhere and installing that shit seems like too much trouble, looks like I have to stick with the old one.
Oh gawd, now I have to configure all my extensions again, all my custom search engines that I of course don't remember the URLs for — I had a dozen of those, all those about:config prefs to disable WebRTC, to use normal DNSoverHTTPS provider instead of CloudFlare 😩
Why can't I just… you know, downgrade the app, preserving all the settings? But of course I can't — it's a smartphone, it has to be smarter than me and protect me from downgrading the apps 🤬
Oh my, I was going to export my UBO settings, edit them and import it back in — for some reason I can't set custom accent colour in the GUI and can only choose from a set of predefined ones.
I'm using Acode to edit files right on my phone — it's a really neat app BTW. Problem is… It doesn't launch! I've spent minutes staring at its animated splash screen. Looks like it got broken by a recent update too, goddammit! 🤯
Even clearing the cache and app data didn't help — let's downgrade it too.
@eric
Sure, did that! But looks like F-droid hosts only so many versions, I've even tried editing the version manually into the link, but it's 404 😔
@eric
s/so many/this many/
@eric @gemlog
Turns out, old builds are getting preserved in the F-Droid Archive repo. I've always thought that Archive repo is for software that was removed due to not being updated anymore, but TIL it's not for that only.
I have enabled it: https://f-droid.org/archive/
And now I see them all in my F-droid manager, including really old ones. I use an alternative one — Neo Store, I like its UI more and I didn't even have to add that repo, it comes preloaded with them, I only had to flip a switch 😁
Internet Archive to the rescue!
https://archive.org/details/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_11800xx
Unfortunately it's only 118.0.0, not 118.0.2 that I've been looking for.
I'm also not always sure that stuff uploaded to the Internet Archive is virus/trojan/rootkit/whatever-malware free… On the other hand, I'm not even sure what's worse — that or having #WebP in your browser 🤭