It actually was pretty easy. All I did was install Fennec and then tweak a few settings.

  • I switched the browsing protection to strict

  • I installed ublock origin

  • 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

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Did the same thing as a non mull user installed a fennec fork tho (Iceraven)

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Adda@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In terms of number of CVEs Firefox is better. The real danger of mobile Firefox is that it doesn’t implement sandboxing which means that a security vulnerability can be very bad. However, Android sandboxes apps already so the chances of long term impact are low.

      I would love to see Mozilla implement a proper security sandboxing in mobile Firefox. Instead we get AI and ads. I can’t use Chromium since it no longer properly supports Mv2

  • ChaoticNumber@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.