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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?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Resist Fingerprinting is a firefox feature that Mull enables. RFP is the cause of 60fps limit.

Mull strongly recommends you don't turn it off.

But you can. I use a toggle to fix certain websites that won't work otherwise. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-resist-fingerprinting/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rfp-toggle/

Mull has an additional caveat as of 2023-09-14 ; password managers whitelist browsers for autofill, and 1Password hasn't whitelisted Mull yet. Bitwarden does. Others: I don't know.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I remember, Fennec is a normal Firefox but without the telemetry, and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this is correct.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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

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

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

Chromium is not an option and it never will be an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what is your suggestion?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a Webview browser right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have Webview disabled on both GrapheneOS and Android and Navi works without issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what is it using for a browser engine? It's file size seems exactly like a webview and way too small for anything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I assume from whatever is natively built into it, independent of anything else since system apps are disabled.