It actually was pretty easy. All I did was install Fennec and then tweak a few settings.
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I switched the browsing protection to strict
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I installed ublock origin
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I went to about:config and enabled resist fingerprinting
I ran some fingerprinting tests and my slightly modified Fennec performs about the same as Mull
I’d like to use a browser based on Gecko but they’re far behind than Chromium based browsers in matter of security unfortunately
what’s wrong with mull i didn’t get the memo
It is no longer being maintained which means no security updates
Did the same thing as a non mull user installed a fennec fork tho (Iceraven)
No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!
Yeah that is not confidence inspiring. I don’t need it to be perfect but a web browser needs to focus on security instead of just winging it.
I spent the whole day figuring this out, i did the same as you with fennec and hardening. Took some inspiration from arkenfox and betterfox and thats about it.
Edit: its sad, but such is life i guess. I loved mull.
Mull you will be missed
Is there a reason to move off of mull? I’m not caught up
There is. As per the latest announcement from DivestOS:
DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates.
Sadly, that means that there is basically no privacy-respecting Firefox-based Android web browser as of now which works out-of-the-box.
There is IronFox, a Mull fork, but it remains to be seen whether they are trustworthy and can keep up with the updates. In the meantime, a hardened Fennec is probably the best we can do.
