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Recommended Firefox alternative(s) for Android (reddthat.com)
submitted 4 months ago by sunset@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Recently there has been controversy around Mozilla Firefox.

I've been looking for an alternative but really struggling, seems like every alternative has a downside:

  • Vivaldi: Uses some proprietary code and likely not doing much better on the user data side of things, also based on Chromium.

  • Tor: Uses Tor protocol and so is quite slow, my ISP would probably also think I'm a drug lord.

  • Fennec: Basically looks the same as Firefox but guessing less up to date, F-Droid has a warning about it's using Mozilla services for tracking.

What are you guys using? Have you found anything good?

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

IronFox is similar to what Mull was and similar-ish to fennec. You can also try Brave or Vanadium if you wish to go Chromium

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

+1 for IronFox

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

+2, using it as my daily over vanadium

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Switching from Firefox to Chromium because of the latest Mozilla policy changes is insane. Google is ten times worse in every relevant aspect.

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brave and Vanadium remove the google telemetry. Next complaint?

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

If telemetry is the problem, the rational thing to do is to use a fork/build of Firefox without the telemetry, not support the Google monopoly or go for browsers that have had potentially problematic privacy policies for a lot longer than Firefox.

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I might give IronFox a go, just a bit weary as never heard of it before, not sure who is the owner of the project and where they are based, GitLab project only has ~125 stars.

Have you ever used the Accrescent app store? That's their recommended option for installing it.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used Acrescent but I believe it's made by the GrapheneOS team. It's focused on security, rather than totally FOSS programs.

[–] turtl@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the Acrescent store is independent from Graphene OS - though they just seem to like the project so much they made it available in their own "App Store"