Firefox for Android vs Fennec

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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lustrum@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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aelius@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2y

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.

ReversedCookie@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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CocaineShark@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I would prefer the longer version, if you don't mind sharing

ReversedCookie@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y
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VitabytesDev@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y

OK, I will try Mull instead!

shortwavesurfer@monero.town · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

this is correct.

Shaul@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 2y (8 replies)

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.

Lemongrab@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Shaul@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

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

Mane25@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y (5 replies)

So what is your suggestion?

Shaul@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

That's a Webview browser right?

Shaul@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Shaul@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

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