Nice article! Great to see some Iceraven coverage here on GHacks. Iceraven can’t really do much about that unless it grows so popular that it helps incentivize those developers to start updating because of new users from Iceraven. Mozilla doesn’t really give extension developers not in it’s dozen or so favored extensions much reason to stick with it, because it’s main Android browser (Firefox stable) can’t access them. So, if you’re using an extension that the developer(s) of the extension stopped updating last year, obviously you’ll be stuck on the last version if the developer(s) of the extension don’t start updating again. The other thing worth mentioning here is that, if they still work, Iceraven does allow people to use some older extensions that no longer publish updates.

So, I know these extensions do update for some Iceraven users like me, which is leading me down the path of trying to figure out why me and not you, and trying to determine what it is you can do to get your extensions to update the way mine do.

The other reason I’m asking is that today is 8/8/21 and my UBlock Origin last update thing is listed as 8/5/21, even though I’ve had Iceraven as my default phone browser for a year now and UBO has been installed continuously all that time. So, like, if you installed Iceraven 6 months ago and never touched the core install, I wonder if some extensions would stall out on the last compatible version instead of updating to the latest versions until you update the browser. The reason I’m asking this, even though I know your stated issue is extension updates, is that I’m wondering if some new versions of the extensions won’t run on old versions of browsers. apk file for the browser can be installed as an update without losing browser settings. apk files as they are posted on the Github releases page where you found the browser initially. Are you updating the core browser? Unless you’re using the F-Droid ffupdater tool (Which includes Iceraven as one of it’s supported browsers), to update Iceraven itself, the way to update is to download the new.

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