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hi so i have been using iceraven for a while and i have been recommended mull alot and i wonder if iceraven is good cause i love how you can add extensions made for the pc version of firefox

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use what you enjoy. It's a shame that someone needed to fork the project to support something that would be so beneficial.

But this line 'No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!' personally would keep myself from using it.

Browsers play a critical role in the security of your device and I wouldn't feel comfortable letting a hobby project assume that role.

That being said, it's a common occurrence for forks to lag behind in security updates and ultimately your prerogative to accept that risk.

[–] Mwa 7 points 2 months ago

good explanation ngl

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

Out of curiosity, what turned you away from Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In my case, I've been using Librewolf because its out-of-the-box security and privacy settings are tighter.

[–] Mwa 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We are talking about mobile forks :P

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

Mobile wasn't specified :)

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

Iceraven is only available on Android. You should've known that we are talking about mobile browsers here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's not possible for one person to know every browser in existence, and on what platforms they're available.

[–] Mwa 3 points 2 months ago

the forks have more features and tweaks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't know too much about Iceraven. Just wanted to throw in Fennec, which is basically Firefox with telemetry removed plus add-on support. Also has about: config. It think it gets updates more frequently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Mull is more or less Fennec with Arkenfox baked into it to prevent fingerprinting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Happily been using it for a few years by now.

The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.

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

Just a general question for the participants here:

Do you think firefox forks are maintained/more secure than the OG Firefox from Mozilla? I get that the forks have better privacy features enabled by default or useful features which make it functionally better...BUT....in terms of straight up security and responding to exploits and patching quickly, etc, would OG Firefox from Mozilla be better? Just curious what ya'll think.

[–] Mwa 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

prob yeah bcs regular firefox gets updates quickly

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

Yea that was my thinking. If you can just tweak regular Firefox to suit your needs, and it's kept up to date and very actively maintained, why not just use regular firefox?

[–] Mwa 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's harder to tweak regular firefox on mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Harder, but still doable. My main concern is security and speed of exploit patching. More inconvenience is an okay tradeoff for that. But I do agree that tweaking it on mobile is annoying. It's also missing a lot of the flags that the Desktop browser has.

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

I don't know. I primarily use Mull on android because it is a hardened version of Firefox. No issues with it so far.

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

So, I've used Palemoon, Fennec, Librewolf, and others. My logic is this:

Firefox is my daily driver. But with ADHD, I tend to have a couple hundred tabs open at a time.

I have a shitty old computer from 2013, so when I play intense games I like to close the browser to free up some RAMs.

But but but, what if I gotta look up something? "How to beat it to the water temple?" "How to recipe for botany pots?" "How is quake?" "Cheat Engine table for Mario 3d World please"

Sometimes I need to alt-tab out and open up a browser that won't open a whole bag of RAM-eating dicks at me, just to get some quick lookup answers.

So I keep Librewolf on there as a backup for these situations. I'm open to alternatives, as anyone should be!