How come?

  • @Steve@communick.news
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    19 days ago

    If I remember, that setting is extremely aggressive, and breaks lots of sites. Firefox has by default, a more complicated and nuanced feature that works practically as well, without breaking everything.

      • @Steve@communick.news
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        419 days ago

        In that specific regard, probably.
        I use Fennec. I’ve found the more security minded versions, tend to have problems with some site or another, and annoy me.

        • sunzu2
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          219 days ago

          I noticed that the sites that have issues are the sites I should avoid.

          After a while, you just don’t need them if you are willing to make the changes needed to reduce that corpo exposure

          • @Steve@communick.news
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            19 days ago

            Sites like my banks, and local movie theaters, and self hosted VTT games.
            I’ve had issues with all. Not acceptable

      • sunzu2
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        119 days ago

        Firefox selling their ass out so I lost trust in them to be using their apps

  • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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    1318 days ago

    We very publicly discussed our approach to fingerprinting and the reasoning for this. But a basic TL;DR is that we’re using a hardened configuration of FPP - which matches all of RFP’s targets, except the few known to cause breakage/be undesirable for users. I’d recommend reading that GitLab issue for a detailed explanation, and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

    FYI: Arkenfox doesn’t enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.

        • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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          218 days ago

          Waterfox contains proprietary Google Play libraries, and doesn’t include any hardening when compared to standard Firefox on Android. It’s a completely different project with a different set of goals than IronFox or Mull.

          You would be far better off using standard Firefox over Waterfox, in terms of privacy & security.

    • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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      They changed some basics from Mull and decided to go other ways.

      What basics did we change, and why do you have a problem with them?

      IronFox still has the same core goals/mission as Mull: to provide a privacy & security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. If IronFox isn’t for you, that’s completely fine - but I’m just perplexed by your reasoning here, and would appreciate any elaboration so that we can improve.

    • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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      318 days ago

      Shitty of them claiming to follow Mull’s legacy if they’re doing their own thing.

      How?

      Our change in approach to fingerprinting was very carefully considered and discussed, both privately and publicly.

      FYI: Arkenfox doesn’t enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.

      IronFox still has the same core goals/mission as Mull: to provide a privacy & security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. If IronFox isn’t for you, that’s completely fine - but I just don’t understand how this is shitty or compromising Mull’s legacy/ideals.

    • @AkashicOwl@lemmy.world
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      119 days ago

      What’s the alternative on Android tho? (not saying there isn’t one, just that I don’t know it if it exists)

  • N.E.P.T.R
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    219 days ago

    Idk why, it doesnt say anything on their gitlab about changing that. Maybe it is a problem with the build process? I remember on Mull a couple months ago i did a clean install and RFP was disabled. You can just enable it if you want.

      • N.E.P.T.R
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        118 days ago

        Ok, might want to make that more clear under the section about issues inherited from Mull which still mentions RFP.

        Your explaination seems sound.

        • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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          318 days ago

          Yeah, we’ve been waiting to update documentation until our website is ready (since that’s where we’ll keep everything). You’re right we do need to make this more clear.

          • N.E.P.T.R
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            18 days ago

            Understandable, thank you for your (and contributor’s) work on this project. I am happy that i dont need to compile Fennec with hardening from source for each update.

      • N.E.P.T.R
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        118 days ago

        Maybe consider enabling RFP for private browsing. Is letterboxing enabled?

  • foremanguy
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    18 days ago

    In my opinion you should enable it

    Didn’t watch out for reasons, maybe ironfox gives one?

    • @celenity@lemmy.zip
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      18 days ago

      We don’t recommend enabling it; you can see our reasoning as to why we don’t enable RFP here - we use a hardened configuration of FPP instead.

      FYI: Arkenfox doesn’t enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.