hi so i have been using iceraven for a while and i have been recommended mull alot and i wonder if iceraven is good cause i love how you can add extensions made for the pc version of firefox

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Use what you enjoy. It’s a shame that someone needed to fork the project to support something that would be so beneficial.

But this line ‘No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!’ personally would keep myself from using it.

Browsers play a critical role in the security of your device and I wouldn’t feel comfortable letting a hobby project assume that role.

That being said, it’s a common occurrence for forks to lag behind in security updates and ultimately your prerogative to accept that risk.

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good explanation ngl

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Out of curiosity, what turned you away from Firefox?

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In my case, I’ve been using Librewolf because its out-of-the-box security and privacy settings are tighter.

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We are talking about mobile forks :P

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Mobile wasn’t specified :)

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the forks have more features and tweaks

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Don’t know too much about Iceraven. Just wanted to throw in Fennec, which is basically Firefox with telemetry removed plus add-on support. Also has about: config. It think it gets updates more frequently.

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Mull is more or less Fennec with Arkenfox baked into it to prevent fingerprinting

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Happily been using it for a few years by now.

The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.

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true

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Just a general question for the participants here:

Do you think firefox forks are maintained/more secure than the OG Firefox from Mozilla? I get that the forks have better privacy features enabled by default or useful features which make it functionally better…BUT…in terms of straight up security and responding to exploits and patching quickly, etc, would OG Firefox from Mozilla be better? Just curious what ya’ll think.

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prob yeah bcs regular firefox gets updates quickly

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Yea that was my thinking. If you can just tweak regular Firefox to suit your needs, and it’s kept up to date and very actively maintained, why not just use regular firefox?

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It’s harder to tweak regular firefox on mobile

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