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How to harden fennec for privacy? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

How about testing IronFox a "Fork" of Mull?

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Oh yeah, makes sense, reminds me of how I discovered IronFox by searching content about phoenix.js

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They changed some fundamentale that werde used for and in Mull so I do not recommend it yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm interested on what changed that make it differ from Mull in a non recommended way. Are you referring to their 1st MR? where they outline:

Replaced Arkenfox & Brace preferences with ones from Phoenix 2025.01.06.1...
Added support for Google Safe Browsing (Safe Browsing is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the following preferences to true in about:config)

I understand Mull was using arkenfox which is sort of the go-to reference, and now ironfox move to phoenix. The safe browsing is the same approach Librewolf follows, though I don't like their comment on a proxy. I don't like their choice of the brave search engine, but I always replace that with searxng tweaked a bit.

The MR doc doesn't look too terrible, but don't know about the changes themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I've heard of ironfox but it doesn't look easy to install on Android right now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I simply add the link posted before into obtainium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

There's also an F-Droid repo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

There are apk files right there in the releases