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

submitted 1 day ago by sunset@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Iceraven is my go to, been using it for about a year now. It works great

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Interesting, seems you have to download the .apk directly from their repo though, rather than any store. So I'm guessing there's no automatic updates?

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, but I see it as a pro and a con. With previous browsers I used like Mull, Fennec and Bromite, the store versions usually lagged behind, usually due to FDroid shenanigans, and downloading it from the source eliminates the middleman. While it is more work, I do use my browser for many important things, so I feel like it's worth it for my use case.

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I just found out you can use Obtanium to make this process easy, you can just add the repo URL into the app.

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 2 points 10 hours ago

Very nice! I will look into using it

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