• Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Fennec and Ironfox are improved versions of Firefox with better privacy/security hardening so picking either is probably preferable to base Firefox

    • SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      We’re in memes, not OpSec. The average person isn’t going to care about that as much as they are going to care about having to sign into every site after closing a tab.

      • Zangoose@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 hours ago

        For the record I didn’t downvote you, but if I was actually being serious about opsec I’d say not to use anything based on mobile Firefox at all :)

        warning: info dump ahead
        1. Firefox mobile is inherently less secure because on mobile because it’s basically just slapping a new renderer on top of either safari or Chromium’s browser engine. This is partially because, everywhere except the EU, Apple requires all iOS browsers to use the safari engine under the hood, so it doesn’t make sense for them to develop their own mobile engine just for EU and Android. If you’re actually serious about opsec, just use safari on iOS, Vanadium on GrapheneOS, or Brave (brave is also lame tho :/ There might be a better chromium fork I’m not aware of)
        2. Fennec/Ironfox still have cookies, they won’t sign you out of things every time. The improvements come based on actively blocking more telemetry (and hardening it with things like always-https and DNS-over-https, and tracking blockers on by default)
        3. I don’t actually have a 3rd thing I’m basically just trolling at this point. Rule of 3s and all. Have a good day.
          • Zangoose@lemmy.world
            1·
            18 hours ago

            Sorry had it the other way around, it uses gecko but then uses the Android system WebView as a renderer. I think it’s similar in iOS (but with the iOS equivalent of WebView because of iOS limitations) Either way, mixing and matching like that is generally less secure