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Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

That's a solid criticism. Firefox + uBlock Origin or Librewolf are good desktop alternatives. But what's the alternative on Android? Last time I checked, there wasn't any on privacyguides.

Btw I do always turn off all their rewards and wallet stuff and follow most of the https://privacyguides.org recommendations.

Thanks for your help in making privacy-focused software available on Linux btw!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fennec, F-Droids fork with proprietary bits removed. & uBlock of course.

[–] Dehydrated 5 points 8 months ago

Mull is even better, it's hardened Fennec. It's basically like LibreWolf but for Android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I use Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android. You can still install add-ons for the app the same way you do on desktop.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Cromite has adblock. Vanadium too but it may break on on-GrapheneOS as it has security patches that break on regular android.

Mull is very fine for me, I use Vanadium and Mull, Vanadium for crappy sites (because mobile hardened firefox doesnt support as much sites as desktop for some reason). Vanadium is very likely more secure, unlike on Desktop where that is not easily said.

[–] Para_lyzed 2 points 8 months ago

Cromite is the best recommendation I can give. It is currently under consideration to be added to privacyguides.org (you can find it on their issues page on the GitHub), and it is expected to be added (as was Bromite, which is where Cromite forked from after development on Bromite was stopped). The main developer of Cromite (uazo) has actually asked the evaluation to be paused until the licensing for aac and h264 are figured out, as licenses are very expensive, and a recommendation on the PrivacyGuides website would likely draw many more users to the project, potentially causing legal trouble. You can track progress on this issue here. It's worth noting that the dev of Cromite was an active dev of Bromite before Bromite's lead dev abandoned the project.