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Firefox has a problem and Android phones are affected by it (does that help all of you down voters?l (www.androidheadlines.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does fennec get around this?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (14 children)

No, I don't recommend Fennec. Consider Mull if you want something without Mozilla's telemetry. Mull has some of Tor Browser's privacy features as well as not having telemetry.

That said, I don't think Firefox is harmful in any way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I can't handle scrolling with Mull. Otherwise, I love it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

whats wrong with mull's scrolling?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/vy84hy/mull_browser_locked_at_60hz/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you can change that in about:config, i think privacy.resistFingerprinting is the culprit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like it's all or nothing. I realize that any item turned off makes you more unique but not every site is making fingerprints using every feature.

I want to resist fingerprinting without decreasing the functionality of my phone. Only change the refresh rate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree that's a problem, but refresh rate is one of the fingerprinting methods, and resistFingerprinting doesn't offer finetuning options (except canvas permissions?), which is what prevents me from using it

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