Now that Mull is no longer being supported, what are some recommendations to tweak fennec so that it matches Mull in terms of privacy and security?
How about testing IronFox a “Fork” of Mull?
Does anyone know about the team in this project? I’m concerned that development stalls after a little while when things get hard or they get tired of it.
For me, customizing a new browser is a heavy lift so I don’t usually jump headfirst into browsers without first knowing a little about the team’s background.
Idk. It’s the second release and they pushed upstream firefox 134 and Phoenix.js instead of arkenfox which sounds really good.
Btw and nobody could resist that arcticion icon from IronFox…
The maintainer of IronFox and Phoenix.js are the same person.
See this git history: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/commits/dev?ref_type=HEADS
Oh yeah, makes sense, reminds me of how I discovered IronFox by searching content about phoenix.js
I’ve heard of ironfox but it doesn’t look easy to install on Android right now
There are apk files right there in the releases
I simply add the link posted before into obtainium
There’s also an F-Droid repo
You can apply arkenfox or Betterfox to fennec in some somewhat hacky ways via adb (or less hacky if rooted)
I am not sure any modified browser is that private since it is unique. Generally the whole point of a privacy browser is that you can use stock configuration.
That is anonymity, not privacy.
I would agrue that online there is no privacy without anonymity.
Anyone got a quick comparison between Ironfox and Iceraven?
Super quick comparison: while both start with the letter “I”, the rest of their letters are different
Finally someone getting down to the real nitty-gritty
Just go through the settings and you will probably be able to judge urself what to change.
You can also choose to install an Content Blocker, like uBlock Origin + other extensions which might be beneficial depending on ur threat model.
You can optionally check out following:
- ClearURLs (probably unecessary if use uBO with appropriate filters + ETP, but you can still used it in addition)
- CanvasBlocker (slightly advanced), JShelter (advanced)
- LocalCDN (fork of decentralised eyes)
- Auto Referer
- LibRedirect
- NoScript
I don’t think fennec has received an update for v134 as of yet and there were multiple CVEs patched in v134. Iron fox has, it is worth checking out.
