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?

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    82·
    23 hours ago

    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

    • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
      62·
      22 hours ago

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

        • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          12 hours 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.

          • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            The issue is that any firefox-based browser on Android lack of per-site isolation unlike chromium browser. It’s a security issue that Mozilla doesn’t seem interested in fixing. And it does impact every fork such as IronFox (previously Mull)

            I am mainly using Firefox engine on all my computers but on Android I am using either Vanadium when on GrapheneOS and a tweaked brave when not.

            For me personnaly it has nothing to do with supporting Google’s monopoly on web tech or not. It’s not about telemetry either, it is a security concern.

    • sunset@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      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.todayEnglish
        31·
        23 hours ago

        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.eeEnglish
          3·
          22 hours ago

          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”