With recent concerns about Firefox and the mozilla corporation I am starting to wonder if I should take stock of alternatives. A common recommendation seems to be Fennec, but given what F-droid describes as anti-features, I wonder if I’m essentially replacing the problem like for like.
What do they mean? What services? Optional ones? Can it be used without connecting to any mozilla services at all?
Looking at my firewall logs (RethinkDNS) Ironfox doesn’t seem to try to connect to anything I don’t want it to except safebrowsing. That’s blocked anyway by the firewall, and is easily disabled in about:config. You may want to use safebrowsing, and Firefox connects to their own implementation of it before it hits Googles servers.
Info on safebrowsing and Firefox is here
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work