I use Fennec on Android because I can use desktop Firefox addons if I enable developer options and use my addon collection.
i’m also on Fennec. Any tip on how I can install this addon - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediredirect/
Hmmm that was bothering me that mobile Firefox has access to like six add-ons. At least ublock was one.
Look on official Librewolf website, not sure if mobile is supported though
Well, Mull is more like a “Librewolf for Android”, I (think) it is more privacy-focused than Fennec.
Mull also supports more extensions from developer options.
Check these out for Librewolf and Mull’s results. Fennec isn’t in the list (yet?)
https://privacytests.org/
https://privacytests.org/android.html
How is Librewolf better?
Hardened by default, no telemetry, no Pocket, virtually everything Mozilla-related removed, and timely updates unlike some other forks. It is like the Ungoogled Chromium equivalent of Firefox. Since I do not like the company it is the perfect option for me.
They are a for-profit company including laying off staff but their CEO still makes CEO money even while the company is struggling. Not to mention if you are trying to degoogle that is where Mozilla makes the bulk of its income. That’s just a few things of many, they’ve also made stupid decisions like leaving Thunderbird out in the cold for years or that whole Colorways thing they wasted time on. Not to mention I don’t actually even like Firefox the browser. I use librewolf strictlty out of principle and not because I actually prefer it over chromium. I think it is inferior in most ways but I am opposed to the centralization so here we are.
That’s why I don’t use password manager and learn every unique randomly generated 22-character password by memory. I can’t remember my mother’s name but at least I can log into myspace.
Its hardened firefox, but you dont have to do any of the hardening yourself. Thats it, and thats why I continue to just use hardened firefox.
Oh nice, Can I still sync my Firefox account with it? Been looking for an alternative so I can use FF for both work and home.
You can reenable that in the settings, but it’s off by default. I use it everyday
If you’re looking for a bookmark sync, check out floccus, a FOSS plugin for Firefox and chromium browsers that will sync your bookmarks to a cloud storage and across your browsers.
Haven’t heard of that but I’m using xBrowsersync for my bookmarks so I wouldn’t need to rely on Firefox Sync.
Looks interesting but seems to be getting abandoned unfortunately.
What I enjoy about floccus is that there is no additional app to interact with; you just save book marks as you normally would in any browser and it auto syncs the structure of your bookmarks to other browsers, so it is always easy and familiar to get to.
Mike Kuketz had a detailed look at several browsers and Librewolf as well. In a nutshell, he was pleased and states that the default settings are user friendly. His website is in German though: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil8/
The tabs still look like buttons. Perfect opportunity to fix that, and they whiffed.
