I installed the mull browser revently. People who are familiar with this will know that it’s a fork of firefox android. It’s hardened but I haven’t noticed much difference b/w the two. Mull has a few visible tweaks like Https mode by default, strict protection etc. but I haven’t come across other backend/not so visible changes. How is it different from firefox android?
It does the canvas anti fingerprinting with it’s letterbox style display… Is strict with cross site cookie denial. A few more differences. Check out mulls site. I found it pretty detailed in its explanations
Add to that, no telemetry
True! I was shocked looking at my pihole logs and see how much Firefox phones home for that crap the other day.
For example: Firefox today on my pihole.
No pocket 😛
Fennec is firefox without mozilla stuff and mull is fennec with arkenfox settings
I use mull as a daily driver. I’m happy with it
https://privacytests.org/android.html shows firefox vs mull (and other browsers) for different privacy tests.
Thanks, that really helped!
Its not visible lol, its in the about:config.
Only Firefox Nightly has that, so have fun hardening that manually XD. Firefox regular cant be hardened, and if you read the arkenfox user.js you know what stupid things this browser does.
Hardend Firefox out of the Box (Librewolf and Mull) are the way to go
That’s a good list. But the poster was referring to Mull browser on Android
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
Similar names, but very different projects
Firefox is bloated with telemetry.
No, I can’t use my yubikeys in fennec or Mull.
If you dont have differences, great!
Make sure to install Ublock and noscript. Noscript to whitelist javascript for every single website and block the rest, thats the only way to really get privacy.
Also “forget me not” can be used to whitelist cookies, and delete the rest.
It’s always a good idea to stick with pure firefox instead of using unknown browsers that may be discontinued abruptly in the future.
You’re right about being cautious that they might be discontinued, but you can always port them to another Firefox port. Also this is a fork from Firefox stable and applies patches to it, so not a ton of custom code needs to be done.
Not possible on mobile though. On Desktop I am working on Arkenfox-softening that modifies the arkenfox user.js and makes updates easier.
