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?
What services does it connect to?
Edit: after I posted I saw in the summary that you’re not sure whatserviceds it uses either. I wonder if there is a way to get the specifics from f-droid.
You might check out ironfox to see if it also has the same issues.
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
Even if Mozilla seems to have clarified the TOS for the better, I am already experimenting with Librewolf and Zen on Win11 and Fennec on Android. And I was about to ask the same question…
Ever since Mull was abandoned, I’ve been using IronFox. It’s a privacy and security strengthened fork of Firefox.
