New privacy browser on F-Droid, "Mull"

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andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

There's a cool new firefox-based mobile browser on F-Droid called "Mull". It's like a LibreWolf browser for mobile, using privacy configs from the arkenfox project. It's built from F-Droid's version of Firefox, called Fennec. Seems pretty new, it's been worked on for about a year and installer packages look like they've been available for a few months. It allows the addition of the same privacy and security extensions as Firefox mobile, like ublock, noscript, and decentraleyes.

I'm testing it out today, seems quite good. I'm going to test some videos on it and try it on some browser fingerprint testing websites, see if it's got decent anti-fingerprinting.

There's an F-Droid description website here - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

Update - audio and video seem perfect. And the anti-fingerprinting appears to be excellent. Looks like a good browser for any libreWolf fans.

Lef
Lef
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A rejoint: 11/20/2021

Does this allow all firefox addons unlike Fennec?

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

No, there's only about 10 addons that work at all with firefox mobile. This one has the same small collection.

Lef
Lef
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A rejoint: 11/20/2021

A fun fact:

If you use the years old GNU Icecat from f-droid you can have any extension you want.

https://f-droid.org/archive/org.gnu.icecat_520610.apk

Jorah Dawson
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A rejoint: 12/13/2020

You can install any addon you want. Anyway, some of them could not work properly.

Go to Settings, About Mull/Fennec and tap 5 times over its logo. Debug mode will appear.
Go again to Settings, the new Custom Addon Collection and add the Iceraven one:
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If you still need more addons you'll have to create your own Collection:
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-add-on-in-firefox-nightly-for-android-but-it-is-complicated/

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

Wow I did not know that, thank you very much! Noscript and ublock are in Mozilla's collection and that's what I really wanted. But now I've got Clear URLs from Iceraven's collection - very cool.

And Iceraven has the Chameleon and Canvas Blocker anti-fingerprinting extensions - I'll have to try those out on mobile, I'm a big fan of them on the desktop.

This is fantastic, thanks again!