Saw that there’s a Firefox browser named Mull for Android in this thread. I went to check it out in the Play Store, but saw it’s not there. Apparently, it’s one of those that have to be side loaded. I use stock Android and Firefox, btw.

  • What’s Mull about?
  • Why would someone use it over Firefox?
  • What are it’s benefits and disadvantages?
  • Sudo Sodium @lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago
    • It’s a Firefox fork with focus on security
    • The equivalent of Librewolf on Android
    • clearly… people use it for security reasons
    • The good thing about it is clearly security , but its focus on privacy comes at the expense of speed … which is its main disadvantage in my experience
  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
    3·
    3 months ago

    Loads of good answers to your question that I don’t need to add to.

    I just thought I’d give fdroid a shout out.

    It’s an alternative app store focused on FOSS. That’s where you’ll find mull, and a bunch of other great apps.

    You do need to give it permission to install apps but I’ve never thought of it as side loading.

  • asudox@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 months ago

    Mull is a hardened fork of Firefox. I use it but some rare websites’ functionality does not work with it. Mull is not more secure than Chromium though, even if it is hardened. Chromium is undoubtedly more secure but not privacy-friendly. I also don’t want to support the chromium monopoly, so I don’t use them. Brave as a browser also sucks. Shields suck. Nothing to this day has been better than uBlock Origin yet.

    • Bienenvolk@feddit.org
      3·
      3 months ago

      Why do you claim Chromium is more secure than Firefox based browsers? Where there any security issues Firefox had but Chromium didn’t? Bugs in sandboxing?

      • asudox@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 months ago

        Firefox’s sandboxing sucks ass (especially on Linux). Mozilla has still not implemented a better sandbox, despite the open discussion since years. GrapheneOS (a security and privacy focused aosp rom) uses Chromium for its browser Vanadium because it ultimately is undoubtedly more secure. Google pumps millions into their chrome security team.

        So while not that good for privacy, chrome/chromium is better for security.

        • Bienenvolk@feddit.org
          1·
          3 months ago

          Firstly, sandboxing is a part of layers of layers of security mechanisms. You cannot tell the overall security by just looking on it. In recent years, a lot has changed in Firefox’ sandbox. I don’t know if it cached up, but I’d guess it has become quite a good sandbox by now.

          What is more important for me, however, is the discrepancy in zero days. Chromium just had more in the past. That may be due to the gap on market share and therefore interest of “hackers” but it shows that you can’t just claim that Firefox “sucks ass” and Chromium is safer.

          I think there is just a lot of opinion in the internet regarding this topic while not a lot of information.

          E: my intention was not to attack you. Security is a complex topic. I just couldn’t verify your claim that Chromium would be “undoubtedly” better.

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    Tor Browser that is configured to use a VPN as it’s networking layer rather than the Tor network.

    Also a good opportunity for them to catch a few sales for their own particular VPN service.

    And if you don’t really care for VPNs, it is Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js template applied, in addition to some compile time flags disabling things like Mozilla’s telemetry reporting (even though this is already disabled by the user.js template).