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Recommended Firefox alternative(s) for Android (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 (1 children)

So currently this is my recommendation for web browsers for Android.

Chromium based (best for security on Android)

brave, disable cryptocrap, telemetry sponsor background and you're pretty much good to go.
cromite, an active fork of bromite which is basically an upgrade of ungoogled chromium
Vanadium, if you are using GrapheneOS

Firefox based browser (none support per-site isolation as of today)

IronFox, a active fork of Mull, basically the most harden FF flavor on Android
Fennec, basically a fully libre FF flavor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

How do you feel about DDG browser? It's another chrome based option. I've been using it when the some rare website won't work in a Firefox fork, and I'm curious to hear other people's opinions about it.

I like their free email forwarding service for throwaway accounts. Obviously, they aren't private in any way.