Saw that there’s a Firefox browser named Mull for Android in this thread. I went to check it out in the Play Store, but saw it’s not there. Apparently, it’s one of those that have to be side loaded. I use stock Android and Firefox, btw.

  • What’s Mull about?
  • Why would someone use it over Firefox?
  • What are it’s benefits and disadvantages?
  • asudox@lemmy.world
    72·
    3 months ago

    Mull is a hardened fork of Firefox. I use it but some rare websites’ functionality does not work with it. Mull is not more secure than Chromium though, even if it is hardened. Chromium is undoubtedly more secure but not privacy-friendly. I also don’t want to support the chromium monopoly, so I don’t use them. Brave as a browser also sucks. Shields suck. Nothing to this day has been better than uBlock Origin yet.

    • Bienenvolk
      3·
      3 months ago

      Why do you claim Chromium is more secure than Firefox based browsers? Where there any security issues Firefox had but Chromium didn’t? Bugs in sandboxing?

      • asudox@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 months ago

        Firefox’s sandboxing sucks ass (especially on Linux). Mozilla has still not implemented a better sandbox, despite the open discussion since years. GrapheneOS (a security and privacy focused aosp rom) uses Chromium for its browser Vanadium because it ultimately is undoubtedly more secure. Google pumps millions into their chrome security team.

        So while not that good for privacy, chrome/chromium is better for security.

        • Bienenvolk
          11·
          3 months ago

          Firstly, sandboxing is a part of layers of layers of security mechanisms. You cannot tell the overall security by just looking on it. In recent years, a lot has changed in Firefox’ sandbox. I don’t know if it cached up, but I’d guess it has become quite a good sandbox by now.

          What is more important for me, however, is the discrepancy in zero days. Chromium just had more in the past. That may be due to the gap on market share and therefore interest of “hackers” but it shows that you can’t just claim that Firefox “sucks ass” and Chromium is safer.

          I think there is just a lot of opinion in the internet regarding this topic while not a lot of information.

          E: my intention was not to attack you. Security is a complex topic. I just couldn’t verify your claim that Chromium would be “undoubtedly” better.