Title basically. I want to know what are the differences and which is the best in terms of privacy. Also, F-Droid says that Fennec tracks your activity, is it true?

  • lustrum@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Contrary to the top comment.

    I got FF Beta>Fennec>Mull for my uses.

    • Mull is stuck at 60hz.
    • Fennec doesn’t support hardware tokens to login to websites (Yubikey).

    I know under the hood some privacy stuff is likely better but from a usability point of view, they’re 2 big deal breakers for me.

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        Okay, basically to keep things simple:

        Mull is like LibreWolf on Desktop a hardened Firefox Version made by DivestOS with tweaks from arkenfox’s user.js and more, is recommended by them to use it together with uBO.

        Fennec is a slighly improved Version of Firefox, it has enchanced Tracker blocking and removes proprietary and telemetry stuff, but it still makes some connections to Mozilla and Google.

        Firefox for Android is basically Firefox for Android, it includes some unnice stuff, like non opensource anti-privacy trackers and a bit more. It has basic protections, but isn’t that powerful, still better than Google Chrome on Android.

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    1 year ago

    Well, i know Fennec replaces Google with (i think its ddg by default). Otherwise i am not sure what it changes. I know Mull has even more privacy settings enabled by default.

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    1 year ago

    If you want to be strict about privacy, in F-Droid turn off all anti-features and you’ll see there is no version of Firefox available to install. You have to make compromises if yo want to install any off-shoot of Firefox.

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      1 year ago

      Iirc anti-features are autodetected from source code. So unused code is too. Also its not like chromium is better in terms of privacy.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve settled on Navi doenloader that has a built-in browser for websites combined with AdAway