Came across this today and thought it might be of interest to some folk here. IronFox is a fork of DivestOS’s Mull Browser based on Firefox. Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull to provide a secure, hardened and privacy-oriented browser for daily use. From: IronFox

The IronFox dev is also the creator of celenity/Phoenix: Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability. - Codeberg.org which IronFox also largely uses. However personally I …

[image] shadowwwind: However personally I would prefer using Librewolf Why?

[image] jonah: How long do we feel is a good enough amount of time to establish a track record? It’s been a year now that IronFox has consistently delivered. @celenity has among other things, removed a lot of Mozilla tracking that was still present in Mull and in Fennec. They have also show…

Word of warning: IronFox does not properly protect the canvas. According to this test IronFox provides access to unaltered canvas, one of the main fingerprinting vectors.

Maximum respect for those who want to escape from Chromium and its derivatives. But if Firefox or Ironfox doesn’t offer any advantage in terms of privacy, because it can only protect you against naive scripts like Vanadium and Brave do, why recommend a less secure browser? Also maximum respect for …

Because only Gecko based browsers support uBo on Android?

And does that make you block more trackers or something like that? What’s the use of that if they can still identify you despite Brave’s Shields, uBO, etc?

[image] Fingerprinting - IronFox This list is not exhaustive… | The private, secure, user first web browser for Android We allow first-party canvas data extraction, due to prompts unfortunately not being supported on Android (Third parties are still blocked …

[image] any1: You do realize that using arkenfox would produce the same result. Haven’t rechecked default FPP canvas for a while. You’re right, they’ve managed to break it completely now. Since Arkenfox switched to FPP I’ve been always adding +CanvasImageExtractionPrompt, +CanvasExtractionF…

It‘s less probable that they‘ll track you (yes, this is a weigh question; less tracking but also less security, I am not able to jugde / weigh these two (dis)advantages). Also browsing is less annoying due to lesser ads. And you don‘t support the Google monopoly.

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Canvas readouts match exactly whatever the canvas is being set to. Therefore canvas can be used for fingerprinting.

Readouts were being slightly altered while the FPP canvas protection partially worked in previous Firefox versions. The readout is completely random in Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser.

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