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:
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Vivaldi: Uses some proprietary code and likely not doing much better on the user data side of things, also based on Chromium.
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Tor: Uses Tor protocol and so is quite slow, my ISP would probably also think I’m a drug lord.
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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?
IronFox is similar to what Mull was and similar-ish to fennec. You can also try Brave or Vanadium if you wish to go Chromium
Switching from Firefox to Chromium because of the latest Mozilla policy changes is insane. Google is ten times worse in every relevant aspect.
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.
I think I might give IronFox a go, just a bit weary as never heard of it before, not sure who is the owner of the project and where they are based, GitLab project only has ~125 stars.
Have you ever used the Accrescent app store? That’s their recommended option for installing it.
I haven’t used Acrescent but I believe it’s made by the GrapheneOS team. It’s focused on security, rather than totally FOSS programs.
I’m pretty sure the Acrescent store is independent from Graphene OS - though they just seem to like the project so much they made it available in their own “App Store”