For those who want to use Firefox with added security and privacy there is Arkenfox : privacy

[+] ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago

Arkenfox is not a fork FYI

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

How is it not a fork?

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 25 points 3 months ago

It is a script that automatically changes the internal flags of Firefox (accessed manually through "about:config") but isn't a recompile. A fork that uses most of the Arkenfox config is Librewolf.

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[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

It's a template to help set all the security and privacy hardening features that Firefox already ships with but are disabled by default.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 months ago

Librewolf my beloved. Unfortunately not on mobile iirc

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago

Use Mull

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 months ago

That's what I do. LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on Android, with FF Sync enabled between them. Works like a charm!

[-] geography082@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

What about iOS ?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago

Safari is your only option as all iOS browsers are Safari. Also there are not as many apps as Apples ecosystem is locked and requires a lot of money to develop for. Add that to the fact that it is closed source and you have a anti freedom device. Apple also is bad about data collection despite there claims.

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[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

Its better to just go through the settings yourself then rely on arkenfox. This just adds a middleman into the process of keeping your settings updated.

[-] Shredder1750@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Have you seen the user.js, you have to change a lot of settings and you cannot keep up to date with them, secondly Arkenfox prefers you to go over their user.js by your self and their updater script has the -c flag to show you the difference between current user.js and new user.js

Overall it would be very difficult to manage something like this on our own as most things are not visible on the settings page of Firefox

[-] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In addition, if you use user.js then you essentially cannot change those settings at runtime (via about:config or otherwise), because your user.js will override the settings on next startup. Maybe that's desired for some, but good to keep in mind nonetheless.

[-] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

There's the provided user-overrides.js that's meant to do this

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[-] perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

If you are willing to compromise I would recommend Betterfox as it breaks far fewer sites while still being better than the default Firefox profile.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My approach to use internet nowadays (joke)

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https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I unironically run everything in VMs

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

me too

[-] slug@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know this is somewhat defeating of the privacy purpose but I use FF because of sync- is there an alternative that can use something like webdav to sync my bookmarks/history/etc between instances? e; i know floccus is around for bookmarks but i find history useful too

[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Librewolf supports Mozilla sync

[-] slug@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

:O

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Can't recommend this. It broke couple sites that I frequently use when I tried it some time ago

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

Broken sites are a small price to pay for privacy

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[+] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I feel like there are far too many IceAnimal forks that just vanish the month after they put out a release.

It might not be entirely true, but it just feels like that.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

maintaining a full blown FOSS project and community, especially a browser, is a lot of work. most people likely give up pretty fast

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[+] Freuks@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Firefox Focus anybody?

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