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I am having problems reaching Tuta through Mull on my Android (Mull 120.0.0, downloaded from f-Droid). Checking, I saw that Fennec is version 120.1.0.

Just in general, does any of you peeps here have any takes on Mull vs Fennec when it comes to privacy? I have assumed both are on par and also comparable to LibreWolf on PC.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, mull is more privacy-centric than fennec. However, I don't use it because I had trouble accessing some websites with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Shared experience then. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I personally have used mull exclusively in the past, but use Fennec currently.

Commenting here just to ask others: mull has been terrible since Android 14. Is that just for me? Pages not loading at all until cache is cleared every few minutes, its been completely unusable for me so i switched.
Nothing like that on their github or nothing. Im on a pixel8/grapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you have darkreader installed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Is auto theme switch not working for u?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not on mobile, no

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought Graphene was the culprit. When I switched it was still Android 13 and Mull was unusable. I couldn't interact with it at random until I restarted it, which was quite the problem. Tried Fennec and have had no issues since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ok yeah im in the exact same boat. Mull was also unusable on stock on android 14 (pre gos release); i kinda expected it to fix it.
It works just fine still on my pixel 4a so its odd...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Use Mull. Fennec is just debloated not hardened.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used both, and my experience is, that mull has better privacy features but a lot of pages are broken. I go with fennec, because of that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Mull is better as it have all telementry collection removed and arkenfox by default.

For broken pages u can open issue on github someone might give option u need to tweak

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Believe Mull is better strictly when it comes to Privacy. However I personally prefer Fennec as its closer to the Firefox experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

tuta has an open source email app, have you tried it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not yet. I was trying to go with the browser first, before "IYAP" 😉 ("Install Yet Another App") But I am likely to end up there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mull is better in terms of privacy and security but breaks some Websites and addons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I remember CYT does better on Fennic than Mull.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Use them both, but test with http://fingerprint.com

It's a real tracking company trying to sell tracking software, so they're trying to prove how good they are, by tracking you in their demo. The incentives are right there. So even if you think you've got good protection, make sure fingerprint.com can't track you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe off topic but what's the issue with using standard Firefox? Also on f-droid through Fennec/FF updater.

With things as dicey as browsers, I would rather have fewer patches and a certified version. These forks never seemed very reliable to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've tried using Mull on GrapheneOS but it just crashes constantly so I went back to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm using mull on grapheneos right now. Works great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mull is very good.