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Recommended Firefox alternative(s) for Android (reddthat.com)
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Recently there has been controversy around Mozilla Firefox.

I've been looking for an alternative but really struggling, seems like every alternative has a downside:

  • Vivaldi: Uses some proprietary code and likely not doing much better on the user data side of things, also based on Chromium.

  • Tor: Uses Tor protocol and so is quite slow, my ISP would probably also think I'm a drug lord.

  • Fennec: Basically looks the same as Firefox but guessing less up to date, F-Droid has a warning about it's using Mozilla services for tracking.

What are you guys using? Have you found anything good?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Switching from Firefox to Chromium because of the latest Mozilla policy changes is insane. Google is ten times worse in every relevant aspect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Brave and Vanadium remove the google telemetry. Next complaint?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If telemetry is the problem, the rational thing to do is to use a fork/build of Firefox without the telemetry, not support the Google monopoly or go for browsers that have had potentially problematic privacy policies for a lot longer than Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

The issue is that any firefox-based browser on Android lack of per-site isolation unlike chromium browser. It's a security issue that Mozilla doesn't seem interested in fixing. And it does impact every fork such as IronFox (previously Mull)

I am mainly using Firefox engine on all my computers but on Android I am using either Vanadium when on GrapheneOS and a tweaked brave when not.

For me personnaly it has nothing to do with supporting Google's monopoly on web tech or not. It's not about telemetry either, it is a security concern.