I have the firefox app but its not on f droid while fennec is, what gives? And should I be using fennec instead

  • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    By not on android I'm assuming you mean F droid. I believe the only difference is Fennec has some of the telemetry removed, mainly Google analytics, which can be turned off in the privacy settings of default Firefox anyways.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, the official Firefox build unfortunately depends on some proprietary libraries, which are removed by Fennec.
    Fennec is just a collection of patches to remove that from the official Firefox repo: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

    Generally, I would recommend using Fennec, yes.
    If you want the official Firefox builds without using the Play Store, FFUpdater is useful: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    If you are big on privacy, Mull is actually recommended, see here: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I would suggest Mull browser. It's more hardened. I use Fennec as an alternate browser for work stuff just to compartmentalize like on my computer (librewolf and firefox)