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I’d love to help to test but Mullvad Browser doesn’t have an official reliable deployment support for Arch, Void, NixOS, OpenSuse, Atomic/Immutable distros, and many others. Although it supports officially Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora based distros.
It would be nice to see a Flatpak version becoming priority some day after 3 years that was requested or have some more distros repo available.
Flatpak version browsers are not as good as official releases from the software makers and hence is not recommended to use (even though it may be available).
Yes, I think so. I think it has something to do with the nature of Flatpak, not the browser themselves. I do not know the full technical details for it and so can’t explain why. This only applies for browsers. Otherwise, Flatpak apps are great for every other app.
But let’s not get off topic in this thread for what and why OP has posted.
This is still open for debate for Firefox browsers, specially if you are only using it for privacy navigation on news, videos, reading forums, etc… Not so sure if there are evidences of security detraction in this scenario.
Using a Chromium browser for logins natively installed is recommended.
I see. I’ve been using secureblue as my main distro on my laptop and Flatpak is the main package manager. But yeah, this is for a different topic. I haven’t looked at the survey yet.
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Happy to say I was selected for the study and was given a chance to help out with my insights, opinions, and ideas.
I’m looking forward to the new features and functionality presumably coming soon. Though being able to add your password manager’s extension with no impact on fingerprint resistance along with the feature/functionality in question would be more ideal. And would make for the perfect browser that provides superior privacy with/and enough convenience to also become ones primary browser.
So Mullvad if you’re listening: please make it happen to become the best browser out there. We need a balance with everyday usability here.