It actually was pretty easy. All I did was install Fennec and then tweak a few settings.
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I switched the browsing protection to strict
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I installed ublock origin
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I went to about:config and enabled resist fingerprinting
I ran some fingerprinting tests and my slightly modified Fennec performs about the same as Mull
Fennec worries me a little because the project failed to deliver crucial security updates for several weeks, which ironically caused people to hop to Mull.
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/86
Browsers are really in a state right now.
Valid point.
This is exactly why I moved to mull. Now I’m moving back lmao
I plan on just monitoring the security trackers
Is there a reason to move off of mull? I’m not caught up
There is. As per the latest announcement from DivestOS:
DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates.
Sadly, that means that there is basically no privacy-respecting Firefox-based Android web browser as of now which works out-of-the-box.
There is IronFox, a Mull fork, but it remains to be seen whether they are trustworthy and can keep up with the updates. In the meantime, a hardened Fennec is probably the best we can do.
Ah shit. This is sad
It isn’t going to get any more updates
Damn. Really disappointing
what’s wrong with mull i didn’t get the memo
It is no longer being maintained which means no security updates
Dev is no longer maintaining along with DivestOS.
What does that means?
It will no longer receive updates.
Another poster shared the blog post: https://divestos.org/pages/news#end.
Thank you
Can we please get an Arkenfox-like for mobile? I LOVE Librewolf and I just wish they would make a mobile version. Or if Mullvad Browser had a mobile version.
I haven’t moved from Mull yet, but there’s IronFox which is a Mull fork
Any idea if they’ll be getting a repo on F-Droid soon?
No idea, but I would guess that it’s likely. I just got it with obtainium, so that’s an option.
Ironically looks like a potential alternative, thanks.
I spent the whole day figuring this out, i did the same as you with fennec and hardening. Took some inspiration from arkenfox and betterfox and thats about it.
Edit: its sad, but such is life i guess. I loved mull.
Mull you will be missed
Did the same thing as a non mull user installed a fennec fork tho (Iceraven)
No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!
Yeah that is not confidence inspiring. I don’t need it to be perfect but a web browser needs to focus on security instead of just winging it.
Even that warning I never really faced issues with the browser(but still a concern).
If Iceraven was something I wanted or needed I might be ok with it. As it stands I don’t see the use case for me personally.
Alr
I installed IceRaven as well
Where are you downloading Fennec?
I see F-droid has a certain version available, is this the one you use?
“Fennec F-Droid is based on the latest Mozilla Firefox release. It has proprietary bits and telemetry removed, but still connects to various Mozilla services that can track users.”
F-droid
I don’t think the telemetry us that big of deal but I also have no idea how to turn it off.
They’re already off. The Fennec builds on F-Droid apparently don’t even have the option to turn telemetry on – it’s not in the build.
Go to
about:telemetryin the URL bar and it should say that telemetry upload is disabled.
I’d like to use a browser based on Gecko but they’re far behind than Chromium based browsers in matter of security unfortunately
In terms of number of CVEs Firefox is better. The real danger of mobile Firefox is that it doesn’t implement sandboxing which means that a security vulnerability can be very bad. However, Android sandboxes apps already so the chances of long term impact are low.
I would love to see Mozilla implement a proper security sandboxing in mobile Firefox. Instead we get AI and ads. I can’t use Chromium since it no longer properly supports Mv2
Would be nice if we have Librewolf for Android
That was Mull
