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?
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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.
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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.
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I 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.
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As far as I remember, Fennec is a normal Firefox but without the telemetry, and that's it.
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this 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.
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Iirc anti-features are autodetected from source code. So unused code is too. Also its not like chromium is better in terms of privacy.
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Chromium is not an option and it never will be an option.
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