Firefox for Android vs Fennec
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?
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.
13Resist 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.
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11I would prefer the longer version, if you don't mind sharing
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OK, I will try Mull instead!
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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.
3As far as I remember, Fennec is a normal Firefox but without the telemetry, and that's it.
13this is correct.
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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.
-1Iirc anti-features are autodetected from source code. So unused code is too. Also its not like chromium is better in terms of privacy.
3Chromium is not an option and it never will be an option.
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